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@ malandrew. thanks and yes. You can easily spot a candidate hopper by how they treat their employees, consultants etc. It is so sad that many of the giant corporations that I have worked for so far are in that category. Yes you might have a great boss or co-workers but overall, the culture of the company reflects and disappoints.
The advantage of a powered landing is significant.

First, precision: landing on a pad is operationally vastly superior than landing in a several mile drop zone. The latter must be in some depopulated area for safety, which has obvious downsides. Being able to land without bringing into play a whole search and rescue aparatus is huge.

Second, turnaround time. Parachutes are fussy, and re-installing new, carefully packed chutes along with all the pyro bolts and whatnot and verifying the whole system checks out is an expensive and complex thing to do for each flight. Landing on rockets means that you only need to inspect and refuel before the next flight, which you would need to do regardless, is very much streamlined compared to the use of parachutes.
I can't believe I've just bought 4 of those 5 games last month (Bastion, S&SEP, Limbo and Amnesia). Well at least I supported the Indie Game scene with more money than I would have with Humble Bundle.

The funnier part is... that I'm giving some bucks anyway just to have Psychonauts (because it's from Double Fine) and because I can't imagine not to have ALL the Humble Indie Bundles :-)
Maybe so. But the fact remains that the US dispatched a large carrier fleet to retrieve the manned capsule.
I'm not at all sure why you would think that is satire. If you're his target audience (people who build web-based software), that 45 minute video is quite valuable. Keep in mind, this is someone who does consulting on just that topic, at a good price, so getting his opinion on this topic for 45 minutes is valuable.
Here, here. Watch this problem explode among traditionally non-tech professions.

Increasingly, you see super smart late-20s–early-30s professionals, with five or six years of solid domain-expertise, teaching themselves to code. They start using their programming knowledge to solve big problems and generally kick ass. Sounds great, right?

The problem: it's much better politics for the leadership to stuff these forward-thinkers into the lower castes, take credit for all their awesome work, and poach all their wisdom by proxy. Few entrenched managers will admit that "the help" has become the master. Moving out is the only way for these new hybrid-pros to move up.

(Thank your deity for YC, etc.)
I get the feeling that lucid dreaming provides similar benefits to psilocybin in terms of letting you rewire your emotional responses to certain situations, as well as letting you rewire your muscle memory. Lucid dreaming is never something that I've been particularly interested in, although I think there are certain use cases where it makes, e.g. if you want to teach yourself how to link turns on a snowboard.
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The soyuz has the capacity to return crew to the Earth, but Dragon is actually the only unmanned capsule capable of returning significant amounts of cargo.
I think some more fairness is needed here - Academic code is often bad in absolute terms, but excellent if you understand the requirements and process that produces it.

Code developed by actual academics is often terse, elegant and small; produced either due to a sudden flash of enthusiasm or because of a deeply held and significant urge to demonstrate a point. This kind of code is often at the core of what is known as "academic code".

The bulk of "academic code" is developed by a sequence of postgrads, pursuing individual goals and code is handed round with a mix of suspicion and over enthusiasm, and dropped and adopted according to the whims and short term needs of semi engaged investigators who are make do and mending with budgets and partners. So, by any sane standard it's bad.

On the other hand, it isn't meant to be adopted and used in the long term, and if you are looking at it at all it's because it does things that will be very expensive to replicate, and no one can afford to do a clean rebuild on. So - don't dismiss it if you can't afford to bin it.
Around as big as the continent Europe, or so.
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see also:

http://benjismith.net/index.php/2005/09/30/hate-frameworks/
Except the so-called value that we're supposed to get from his mailing list consists of exactly the sort of items most of us want to avoid.
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Back when I was in high school, I had to write a term paper and selected the topic of lucid dreaming. I probably put more effort into that paper than any other assignment in all my years of schooling. I went to the local college and looked up every article on the topic I could find. Stephen Laberge had a book out back then (1985) according to Wikipedia, but all I could get were various periodicals. I studiously practiced the techniques he was recommending at the time (waking after a dream, noting it in a journal, staying awake for 5 minutes, repeating the mantra as you fall back to sleep: 'the next time I dream, I will realize that I am dreaming'.

I was amazed at how well a little bit of consistent practice could bring out this ability. I don't recall any negative side effects as others here have mentioned, but then I was a teenager so who knows if I was really tuned-in to how it was effecting me.

I remember being especially entranced by the idea of tests subjects sending coded signals to the waking world through muscular contractions - but then Dreamscape was a relatively new film at the time, so maybe that had something to do with it.
I'll throw in my two cents on the "Lobster is the new... XYZ" by chucking out Papyrus. They are both highly-stylized fonts that are fine on their own merits but highly overrused within a certain niche (Papyrus for anything supposedly 'holistic', Lobster for anything supposedly 'startup').

Now we just need an "Avatar"-sized hugely commercial startup to use Lobster to finally run it into the ground.
I'd compare Lobster more to Papyrus (http://www.papyruswatch.com) and Copperplate (http://ihatecopperplate.blogspot.com/) rather than Comic Sans.
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Even though I am sick and tired of the corporate culture, working on my side projects and hopeful of my own to-be startup soon, I highly recommend you go and work for one of the big companies for first 2-3 years. It will teach you a lot of things and most importantly, show you that you gotta do your own thing and not work for the man for the rest of your life. Unless of course, you have an entrepreneurial itch that you are already dying to scratch.
The TPM does not provide full memory protection. TPMs are primarily used to attest the state of running software. It does not prevent someone from reading memory contents.
That's pretty impressive :)
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I think many 20-something entrepreneurs would be very eager to lunch and trade ideas and wisdom with the creator of Vitamin/SmartWater. You're more successful than 99.9% of us, and any ageism takes a far backseat to actual achievements.
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"""By playing totally dumb ..."""

In China, that is actually the usual way to get around the law.
I hopped on the mailing list for this way back when it was first announced under the impression that it was done or near done.

With each email it became increasingly clear that you/the author had not started at all and were just fishing to see if there was interest first.

This kind of deception under the guise of "market research/validation" pisses me off and lead to an unsubscribe and, consequently, no sale.
Yeah, and I need about $1200 to pay my taxes from last year. And I'm homeless, deeply in debt, and trying to declare bankruptcy. So?

Why is this begathon posted here?
Yes and no. There are some solutions out there, but they are typically not ready for production, require custom hardware, or make assumptions about physical security controls.

(Disclaimer: I am biased since I am working on this.)
Looks like a lot of people like pocket.Will add it :)
>To be fair, there were people in NASA's crafts.

The Dragon capsule is designed to hold people, so SpaceX wouldn't need a bigger ship or crane to haul them in.
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Love the idea, and I just applied. But dismayed to read point #2, especially as I ticked 'no' for the last question.

Does this mean that I won't be considered as a likely candidate if I'm just an entrepreneur, or someone who really wants to put these newfound skills to use but doesn't yet know how? If that's the case, some additional details as to admission criteria would be welcome in the FAQ.
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Hey just wanted to give some context - I'm from the Teespring team, we signed on a couple months ago. Browserling has been incredible for us in terms of diagnosing fringe bugs and testing new features across multiple browsers quickly (especially javascript/dynamic elements).

Looking forward to seeing what's next
It would be similar to a guessing game. Where users guess based on photos that are shown.
It was totally bad to perform image leeching.
The site http://www.williamrobertson.net/

Where the image are hosted, is now off-line, because of this.

You can use imgur, minus, or even blogspot itself instead.
> The skills just aren't transferable.

Not all comparison are good. I agree that playing music requires skills that you probably don't have if you only studied art history, but this is absolutely not true when it comes to CS and SE. CS and SE both have to do with abstraction, languages, logic, models ...
It's the brand of the company that matters; It's the foundation for what a user will expect, and will let them trust what they are seeing in front of them as valuable to them - prior to even knowing anything specific about it.
No. The original Windows 8 logo requirements were that secure boot be enabled by default, and were silent on whether or not the OEM could provide an option to disable it.

Microsoft updated the requirements to say that OEMs must provide, on x86, a way to disable it or allow users to install their own keys.
It wouldn't be too far of a stretch. Starting simply with the knowledge that dreaming happens while in REM, someone could find it logically to switch to an Uberman-type Polyphasic sleep schedule, since one of the biggest advertised advantage of such sleep schedule is dropping into REM a lot quicker due to exhaustion. If Uberman doesn't actually help them in terms of the sleep they need, but they also don't want to give it up, hoping to get all that lucid dreaming, a student could continue it for a a few months, which coincidentally is a school semester. Now you've got a student who is really burned out, and once exam time will crash and burn. Depending on the program, university they attend, and the person themselves, failing a semester could really screw them over one way or another.
As an extreme case, I judge books before I even see their spines. I judge books by their location in the bookstore and don't even walk into the aisle to catch a glimpse of the spine. Maybe somewhere in the "Romance" section of the bookstore there's a book that would really appeal to me, but I'll never see it.

Sometimes I even judge an entire store-ful of books without looking at 'em. I've already judged the entire contents of my local "Anarchist Bookstore" without setting foot inside the place.

There's thousands of bookstores in China that I've never even seen, and I know I won't enjoy the books inside them. Look at me, I'm dismissing billions of books that I have never seen and will never see, simply because I suspect they're probably written in languages I don't understand!

Anyway, if I ever get to the point where I'm judging a book by actually looking at its cover then that book is already getting way more scrutiny from me than most.
It was a really frustrating process getting it accepted actually. Took over 3 weeks and several rejections. Really depends on which reviewer you get I think.
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Apropos of nothing: if one is making decisions based on estimates of probable conversion rates, my ballpark for "web page visitor -> makes at least one API request" would be closer to 1/100th of 2% than to 2%. You're probably better off going for an intermediate conversion (cough get their email cough) and then selling them into using the API over time, since this is a thing that the best prospects won't exactly do on a lark.

(I am unsure of whether I like the make-a-play-in-the-browser-utility suggestion from the perspective of the business. I have never work directly on that question for a client, so I don't have even anecdata for y'all on this, but the developer in me says "That's a great idea! That way I don't have to do any work to kick the tires." and the marketer in me says "If we sold 'tire kicking' that would be wonderful now wouldn't it")
My university had a software engineering and computer science majors. Practical difference was that the SE majors took the standard 1st & 2nd year core engineering classes, which meant more physics and DSP classes. After that both majors took mostly the same classes. CS majors took a bunch of SE classes and vice versa. I could theoretically go back to school take about 8 classes and get a SE major.
It's just wrapped in wine, unfortunately. Still, works really nicely.
Well, yeah, you could also get a proper VPN that encrypts your traffic, but that's a bit beside the point.
You illustrate how real estate is under-served by technology, but your startup doesn't solve an offline problem with technology. Where's the Salesforce for realtors or property managers? Where's the service that makes selling your home easier? There are huge problems to solve in Real Estate. Finding/getting in touch with a realtor isn't one of them IMHO.
"The last couple of months have been strange because I have no idea how to run a profitable business. I’m making it up as I go."

I had to chortle at that one. Aren't we training people to save money for a 'dry spell' these days? :-)
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Because Soma provides a donation-only service that many of us consume, and it is very likely that many of us would rather pony up a little cash than see it go away.
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The semicolon signifies C syntax, and C syntax signifies arcane, low-level danger. Designing a syntax without semicolons is a way to show that a language is not trying to play in the same space as C.
Maybe if the subject line was a little more explicit about why, for what, more people might click it. Example:

Still need to raise $1599 to stay commercial-free - underground/alternative Internet radio broadcasting from San Francisco.

Both my own personal experience and text-ad studies I've seen suggest that specific, concrete info drives higher value click-throughs (eg, more people willing to use or pay or your product).
The thing is, if the semicolon is optional, you can't write more complex expression. For example, if you want to sum a bunch of numbers, you can't have the plus signs at the beginning of the lines anymore.
It's nuanced UI-related. There's a lot of psychology involved to understand the holistic effects. You need to include things like someone's brand perception into deciding how effective a UI will be, such as trusted brands will let someone assume that what they are looking at is trustworthy - and therefore of enough value for them to care and look further into it / to get interested.

Hope that helps?
Designed to hold and have real life people inside are two very different things. NASA didn't want to have a successful mission and then lose their hero astronauts because they couldn't find them at sea in time.

Also remember that NASA was doing this in the age before GPS...
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I don't really have an interest in what kind of events happen in the space. It appears to be a venue for business people so, as an engineer, what goes on there doesn't really affect me. Neither of the groups I run is likely to be able to afford to rent the conference room. I do, however, hope Refresh doesn't end up there - in spite of its flaws, I like Buffalo Billiards for meetups.
I can't even count the number of times I've seen the exact opposite. Types that were so over engineered that a simple int would have sufficed.
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Comic Sans makes me remember I have a slight astigmatism.

Lobster makes me want to buy some soup, or order a la carte. Well, at least I don't cringe looking at it.
The solution is actually worse than the initial problem. Unit conversion is a more complicated issue. The solution introduces all sorts of horrid conversions and rounding issues.

Consider a third of an inch. It can't be represented accurately in decimal. The same is true with other units.

You need to store in the source format which may vary based on the type of unit. As a rule, I tend to keep convertable unit values as ratios of two bignums with the unit attached as an enumeration. These can be represented and manipulated as value types (structs) in c#.
Really? What event would you use to mark the start of private space exploration?
Hell, the carrier group probably logs it as "search and rescue training exercise".
Grubwithus occasionally has special dinners with noted authors, entrepreneurs, and personalities of any age. I'm sure if a dinner were focused around you, it would sell out really quickly. You had an exit that dwarfs anything praised around here...

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fwiw, an opposite take, from a decade ago.

at my cs pgm, the assistant professors were supposed to make a presentation on day 1 so the grad students could make an informed decision which prof to work with, which subjects to sign up for.

the software engg prof was a glib, entreprenurial hotshot who said "my students have been placed at netscape, sun, microsoft, oracle". he talked about industry partnerships, internships, 1000s of lines of production code, maintenance, unit tests, refactoring...

the db prof said "i have personally placed all my students in oracle". he talked about rdbms, schemas, superkeys, boyce codd normal forms, how "everything was ultimately data, so you'll never be jobless if you became a dba".

the algorithms prof was a shy lanky dude who went straight to the blackboard and wrote "computers are to computing what telescopes are to astronomy". at that point none of us knew who dijkstra was, so we just looked at each other like "huh?". he then turned to us and said "99% of cs is about searching and sorting. sort algorithms. search algorithms." then he drew a table which listed performance of quicksort, shellsort, heapsort, insertion sort, and two algorithms of his own invention. he talked about Big O notation, theorems, discrete math, taocp. our heads were spinning, and when he left there was a huge collective sigh of relief.

at the end, the student breakup was like 49-49-2. So only 2% of the class signed up for algos. Like most indians, I come from a poor household & my main concern was coin. So I signed up for Software engg. After 1 month, I dropped the course and went crawling back on my knees to the Algo prof, and begged him to take me on. That single decision changed my whole life. In that 1 month, I had found out something about myself - that I was a royal prick. I was personally not cut out to do scut work.I had zero interest and respect for maintenance, unit tests, requirements & specs, UML modelling, refactoring, waterfall method, agile, kanban...I found that whole discipline filled with unproven subjective airheaded garbage, essentially a fad. To this day when a recruiter mentions the word "unit tests" on the phone, I just hang up. Just pure instinctual reflex.

It takes all kinds...
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That flight was during a period when the Soviet's were terrified of a US first strike.

Not long after this flight was the Able Archer 83 exercise, which is probably the only time since the Cuban Missile crisis that we got close to an actual nuclear war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Able_Archer_83

Of course, no excuse for shooting down an innocent airliner, but it's often overlooked just how scared the Soviet leaders were at this time.
The expense factor is the essential one. But it is a smart move, after almost all of the "new" domain introductions (info,biz,pro...) failed to gain momentum, the new strategy seems to try to harness the power of big corporations to push their own extensions into the market.
Are you guys really using alien technology?
> a carrier battle group consists of 20+ ships

When has NASA every utilized a carrier battle group of 20 ships? I'd also suspect that the Navy can make locating a capsule and scooping up its astronauts as part of a training mission that they would be doing otherwise. Search and rescue is a pretty big deal, they practice it a lot. It's not like our Naval fleet is on the dry unless we're at war.
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In the Humble Bundle you also get FLAC and MP3 downloads of the games' soundtracks as little additional gimmick.
Ironically, the font on the landing page doesn't look well on my Firefox 12.

http://bootstrappingdesign.com/

It does look great on Chrome, however.
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Accelerators definitely help develop this "derivative startup" atmosphere, but it is not the root cause. The reasons given in the bullet points are the root causes, accelerators were created in response.
A little, sure.

As a side note, Psychonauts is one of the few games Yahtzee actually gave an overall awesome review: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation...
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I run several websites that provide free information. They take donations. I am trying to figure out how to get traffic and effectively monetize them. Sounds to me like Soma needs to work on their business model.
As glib as the article is, if you work for someone else you will never reach your full potential.
Why are you defining yourselves by YC? "YC Rejected" doesn't give me any extra info...