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This post got downvoted, but there are some interesting points.

I also read the part about "my friends got in without me" and was like "Oh snap, that's awkward." Reading a post on the Internet, you don't know what happened in the mean time. Maybe they worked really hard. Maybe Dan really was dragging them down, and the team seemed more solid without him. Maybe it was just luck (the rest of the applicant pool was weaker 2nd time around). There's some introspection Dan could have here. What was different? What was missing, and do I need to work on that piece?

But they still wanted Dan to join. Those are some pretty good friends.

>"We all know that YC could have been a great opportunity learning new stuff"

Who cares? I also don't believe that YC is the end-all-be-all. If you accept something "just for the opportunity", then you'll be perpetually running around looking for that. For one, college is an opportunity his friends are passing up (for now).

It reminds me of a situation a friend of mine was in. He was applying to Techstars for his startup, and then he got an internship at Facebook. He accepted, but he was trying to decide whether he should quit the internship if he got into Techstars. A professor of ours suggested that he had greater opportunities at Facebook than Techstars, because he'd meet hundreds of people in the mobile space, and that was worth more than what Techstars was going to provide him for his mobile advertising system. If he left for the "great opportunity," then he would have left Facebook. By the way, that's where he joined after graduation. That was quite the opportunity that he would have passed up.

I agree with Dan that we always need to periodically stop and evaluate what we're doing and why. Sometimes things are done a particular way because "that's the way it is." If there's newer and better ways of doing something, do that. If there's another path that will get you to the same endpoint (a flourishing business), is the route going to matter that much? The vision will keep you going in the right direction, and so long as that doesn't change, it doesn't matter what obstacles are thrown in your way.
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I come from a background where swearing, loudly, is considered ok. Think Samuel L. Jackson in "pulp fiction" except my language has, I reckon, a metric ton more swearwords.

First time I worked in a team of people of different language I ended up involuntarily teaching them a lot of them because I was swearing a lot while coding.

But honestly, I don't understand the choice to use vulgar words in naming your project.

EDIT:
but +1 for using WikiCreole!
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Their API should get a makeover.
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You can get a "recreation permit" for one small part of the area (Midway Atoll), so the entire area is not closed off, but for the most part it's all "protected".

There are more, but I assume you know how to use Google?
This is sort of an odd article. He is calling out Samsung for their walled garden approach yet yearns for a 7" iPad. Secondly, he is critical of the dock connector but, if rumors are to be believed and it looks increasingly likely, that Apple will adopt a new, smaller dock connector for iOS devices.

I can't blame Samsung in wanting to reduce their dependency on Google when they control over half of the Android phone market and sell as many, if not more, smartphones than Apple.
Privacy, most likely. Knowledge is power. Don't let your competitors know what's coming until it smacks them in the face and all that.
> Has anyone thought of this before?

The 1992 paper "The Prevention of Mode Errors Through Sensory Feedback" [1] uses this exact mechanism.

[1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/asellen/public...

I've argued for years that vim is one of the few good examples of modal design since it allows for quick entry of the command grammar without modifiers and the command grammar is an excellent fit for the domain. Whenever I bring this up with an interaction designer, I'm told there is no such thing as a good mode. The citation chain has always wound up at this paper and while I generally agree with the paper's conclusion, I'm frustrated that the editor is used in the most inspid way possible to generate mode errors (at the rate of 3-6 in 10 minutes of editing...). The problem given in the paper is solved by `:%s/\<[A-Z]\+\>\zs/errorerror/g` and I could probably do it a half dozen other ways.

Every time I read the paper I tell myself I should make/acquire a pedal and try it out but I've always been too lazy.
Given that the OP doesn't factor in delays due to transit to and from the airport, clearing immigration and customs, and other delays, a more apt comparison would be the relative bandwidth of transferring 1 TB from one part of town to another. At that point, you're only facing traffic. If it takes 1 hour from one part of the a town to another part of the same town (4 if you are in LA), then the relative bandwidth is much more remarkable.
While not a fan of the OEM crapware, I have found it completely harmless on my Tab2. Yes, it takes up some space on the internal flash, but I would be surprised if it was much more than 200mb.
Using a virtualised Android (x86) tends to help.

Also, make sure your emulator image is set to take snapshots at shutdown, to make start-up time reasonable.
A friend at a botanical institute sends and receives a 500GB hard drive weekly, exchanging data across the Atlantic. Back of beermat calculations at the time demonstrated huge efficiency compared to similar cost broadband solutions!
Not to pile on the poor guy, but he does explicitly say he "creates designs" at the top header.

I'm surprised that an 'in-depth' article completely ignores closures and the peculiarities of their execution stack.

[edit]: FWIW, here's a more detailed explanation about all this that seems very straightforward and complete (from 2004). http://jibbering.com/faq/notes/closures/#clIRExSc
Strange, seems quite "responsive" now (on Chrome 20). The sidebar jumps to the top for a narrow window. And the text reflows to window width.
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This calculation works if you can directly plug in the disk and start using the data that way without copying. If, when the disk arrives, you still have to plug it in and copy it at 50MB/s via an IDE cable then that has to be factored into the calculations.
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Find businesses you think meet your customer profile in your geo, and then call them and ask if you could borrow a little of their time.

Frankly you should have done this before you started building anything
The problem with Google's circles is they only restrict: if I write about tech stuff, I have no problem with anyone reading it, but I know that my family probably won't want to.
Well if we're speaking more realistically, you'd use this for shipping 100tb worth of disks (which would fit in your luggage in both size and weight), and it would blow away just about any internet link you could lay your hands on with a remotely similar budget.

That is a great point though. A 4TB drive, hooked up to your internal SATA port, will do about 130 megabytes per second, which is around 9 hours for a full copy.

Drive speeds increase linearly with track density, but drive capacity increases quadratically, so this is only going to get worse. Hard drives are the new tape.
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Interestingly titled 'why my...', as it heads off the trolls at the pass, decrying "yeah but it's great for MY needs".

But Stross makes some really good points, proprietary connectors are a relic of a long time ago and part of the reason why Apple is still hawking them is that they don't want to do something silly like Samsung have, and break compatibility. Which isn't a good idea on Apples part as the dock connector is still crap, but I'd wager they'd have a lot of upset customers if they killed it.

I only just recently bought an iPad, it took time to convince me I needed one. I did look at Android for a while though, mostly for the price point. My experience was much the same, I found at the name brand manufacturers quality was excellent but the software was terrible, and the off brand was vice-versa. Apple has the market stitched up at the moment by having a) excellent hardware and b) excellent software (which even if you don't like iOS you can't argue it's very good at what it does).
Pivotal tracker is still free for open projects, I think and integrates with github, so you may want to look at that.
Glad to see other people experimenting with this kind of setup. I've known a few people to use one of these [1] for Emacs (for Ctrl & Meta), and I finally picked one up a while back.

My setup has one pedal bound to Escape for Vim, and the other two switchable using F keys and some xbindkeys magic. By default, they're "switch WM workspace" (sort of like Alt-Tab) and "switch window focus within a workspace" in Awesome WM, but I can change them to e.g. j and k for reading my email, or have them run various scripts, or whatever.

It's a lot of fun to use, but I haven't been on it much lately having switched to a standing desk and I haven't yet figured out a way to make the two play together nicely. And, as always, I've been meaning to throw the scripts & dotfiles on GitHub, but I'm a slacker.

[1] http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/fs-savant-elite.htm
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Django-Haystack uses a derivative of Django's Q object as well to construct queries as well[1]. It's very, very effective.

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I use sublime text for this. Considering how many regexes I write a day, I actually need a text editor that has this support. Don't you ? :)
> I'm surprised that this behaviour seems to be tolerated. Yes, it works, but so do a lot of other slimy subterfuges and shady business practices

I think this is not a fair comparison. Shady businesses try to rip you off and somehow give you less for your money - while they tried to set the tone and really submit legit content or as he put it "high quality content". So while the traffic in general was staged at least the content was in fact real and you had the real benefits of reddit.
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> A Boeing 747 can carry ~30,000 kg

More like four times that: the 747-400 has a payload of 112 metric tons (248,600 pounds, for an MTOW of 412 metric tons).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_747-400
I don't think it's hard. Have a think about the kinds of customers you would like and then make a list of companies that match your assumptions. Phone them up and say you have a new product that might be of interest and could you come and show it. Maybe 10% will be interested. Go and visit them and listen hard to what they do/don't like about your ideas.

You'll learn one of three things: a) your product could be a good fit for them with some iteration or b) your assumptions about the types of customers you want is wrong or c) your idea stinks.

Deciding between these is up to you :)
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If OP puts it on Kickstarter (no pun intended), I'll be your first pledge. Would really want pedal-up event too and customisable for other apps (ie you can switch the key mapping).

If pedal-up worked, it would be neat to be inserting only while the pedal is depressed.
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I disliked it so much that I called it "excellent".
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My mistake. I should have stressed that these forums started out with no user base, and some of them without an original site.
The fact that with the Pro Version I can run whatever software on it I want. We are salivating over these at an enterprise level as it solves several major problems for us (if they work as advertised).

It means that rather than buying sales types an Air/Ultrabook along with supporting their iPad/Android we can buy them the surface pro and hand them a Windows Phone and have easy integration.

Microsoft understands the enterprise market.
"For me, reading information on a screen is not working. Work is when you add value, so when you actually produce something with the information you have."

The total market for portable computing devices is growing, and the replacement of e.g. paper manuals by tablets might be one of the reasons. This is work by my definition.

"There is no reason for desktops to become more expensive, though. As long as they are built with mass-market technology, of course."

Many desktops in companies can probably be replaced by tablets/mobile devices. I'm in an open plan staffroom with 60 desks and 60 PCs. Many of my fellow teachers would be very comfortable with a tablet that could talk to a projector somehow and some good writing sketching software. We could halve the number of desktops easily, perhaps just have 10 on desks in the side of the room.

Multiply that all over and you have a reduced market in numbers for desktops.

PS: not sure why your comment is being downvoted, just depends on definition of 'work'. Mine is different.
But then, instead of lugging around a heavy/bulky MBP, you're lugging around a heavy/bulky PC laptop. Problem not solved.
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Let me guess, you probably had an original iPhone and suffered when iOS 3.0 came out and performance was terrible, right? Did you know that a subsequent release (3.01 I think) fixed this issue and performance was fine again?

The one thing that I will acknowledge is that newer devices with more memory and more CPU power tend to go to app developers heads and they start to write apps that run beautifully on new iOS hardware, but slowly on old hardware. That is hardly an Apple problem - you'd be hard pressed to find a 3 year old PC that can run the latest high end games as well as a brand new one.

I personally find it amazing that my original iPad purchased 2 years and 3 months ago will still run the latest software just fine. My wife's iPhone 4 purchased 2 years ago also works just fine, and she didn't want to ugprade to the 4S because everything still "just works" for her.
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I'm curious on how Apple is going to use this patent. Looking at the past it's more likely to prevent others from doing similar stuff and thus preventing online privacy rather than supporting it. But we'll see...
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The previous article said "unit testing isn't enough, you need static types /as well/". This article is extending that argument to "unit testing and static types aren't enough, you need xyz /as well/".

I believe the point is that there will always be something your current test strategy doesn't cover. At what point do you draw the line?

If unit tests and static types don't cover everything, what says that's enough? And can the justification for that, whatever it is, be applied to "unit tests are enough" also?
Congrats. I've been thinking for a while to make a clutch for switching hosts file. (I need to switch from testing to production environments for a while) But your idea is much better.
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Unlike a lot of sites, it read great on my WP7 phone. Would it be surprising if the article was intended to get feedback from HN while testing some new layout technique?
>has the opportunity to learn to be assertive

You're missing the point of what assertiveness is. It's about creating opportunity, not sitting on your ass and waiting for the world to cater to your needs. Life is what you make it and one has nobody to blame but themselves for where they go. True, we don't choose the starting point, but we do choose the destination.
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If we're going to be moderate about this, the source code should need to be public and open sourced after the term of the patent expires.
Cool, great advice.

However, phoning them up generally connects us to their customer helpline. What is the best way to reach the right person within that organization of >50 people?
You missed the key angle: ecosystem size.

Apple has first-mover advantage: an 8 year legacy of dock-connector-compatible third party peripherals.

Samsung does not, and if they keep changing proprietary connectors like underpants nobody in their right mind will even think about producing compatible hardware peripherals for their devices.

Similarly, Apple has a pre-existing, pre-iOS market of loyal OSX customers who can be coaxed into embracing iOS as a portable extension of their desktop, with Calendar and Mail and Address book syncing. Samsung doesn't have such a captive audience, and won't build one by going about it this way.

You're right about Samsung having reason to reduce their dependency on Google, but my point is they're going about it the wrong way from a UX point of view.

Per Drucker, the job of any successful company is to acquire customers. Preferably loyal repeat customers. This is not how to do it.
I've just started reading this, and it appears to be excellent. Thank you.

Is there a way within the site to give you some kind of renumeration (monetary or otherwise) for all the effort you've put in?
It's hard to give a blanket answer.

Some organizations have had very good success with marketing channels such as SEO, cold calls and trade shows. I can also tell you stories of people who are very disappointed with the investments they've made in all of those channels.
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Of course it's only the end-to-end throughput that counts. It might take quite a while to load the data onto all those micro-SDHC cards and then extract it again at the destination, and you have to add time that to the ten-hour flight time. Not to mention the health-care bill for driving your sysadmin insane.
They've had several years to do it already. It is a big undertaking, yes, but it's not like they don't have the resources.
I find this a rather misguiding post.

First off, do you really think it's more practical to ship data per airplane than a simple cable that's already connecting you? Not that bandwidth is completely for free, but most of the time you're paying a flat fee and transferring this 1TB won't cost you anything extra. I bet that Boeing is quite a bit more expensive.

Secondly, at some point the article assumes the 'transfer rate' of the Boeing to be 222Mbps. While this might be true for this practical example--let's ignore that you actually need to get the data on the plane in the first place--I bet that you could load it up from bottom to top and reach practically a speed of many gigabits ifnot terabits per second.

Thirdly, the Boeing flies with physical stuff. If the plane crashes, the data is lost. You would need backups, which take time. Over the internet it's not even possible to transfer the original medium; you'd need to first transfer and then delete it.

Fourthly, while it might be true that a packet gets corrupted 28 times during this 1TB transfer (I myself do not have statistics on this, but let's assume), on the internet you can retransmit a packet. Try retransmitting that one sector on the harddrive in under a second.

Fifthly, the article goes on about how TCP needs to wait for an acknowledgement (or 'ack' in short). I've made this mistake before when choosing for UDP instead of TCP because "it would not have to wait for acks and thus make my game much faster". It's wrong because there is a so-called congestion window. I do not know the exact figures, but it's like this: The server sends packet one. Packet one is in transit. The server sends packet two. Packet one and two are in transit. The server sends packet three. Packet one arrives. Packet two and three are in transit. The server sends packet four; the client sends ack 1. Packet 2, 3, 4 and ack 1 are in transit. Etc. The thing is that the server can send up to X packets ahead, without receiving an ack.

Sixthly, the article finally concludes that this is why you should choose for Cloudflare--so it was an advertisement after all. That explains why it's told in this story-like way and why it contains so many technical errors.
Google's interview process seems contrived - as though they've drunk their own kool-aid. Even the people that do get jobs there don't have very positive things to say about their interview process.
Take a look at Opsview. It runs on top of Nagios 3 and makes you not edit those pesky configuration files and integrates with MRTG. Pretty neat.
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Another option would be to break apart a wired Rock Band drum kit so it's just the center controller and the drum pad the USB cable comes out of, connect that to a computer and use Joy2Key (or an equivalent) to map the bass pedal to Esc/i. Not nearly as nice, mind you, but if you're sitting on a half-broken kit like I am, it is cheaper.
Is this meant to be for real? I thought it was just conceptual. I'm really conflicted, I like the concept (bitcoin and mesh-networks, yay!) of a card like that but I don't believe it's feasible and hate the business plans for it.
> part of the reason why Apple is still hawking them

I've always assumed a large part of the reason Apple uses proprietary connectors (other than any potential circuit real estate savings) is that it significantly reduces their testing matrix. If you have to have a license to plug it into their system, they don't have to test it unless you paid the fee.

If you saw the terrible, horrible things that hardware vendors do to the USB specification just because "it doesn't crash when attached to a Windows <N> box" you would cry bloody tears.
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Pish-posh. What if you wanted to go into insert mode with an 'a' or an 'o' rather than an 'i'? It needs more pedals.
You can use Ctrl + [ instead which is easier...
Enterprise... try to get a positive review by Gartner or CIO Today. Expect sales cycles measured in months if not years. There's a reason not a lot of small startups sell to the enterprise, it's like trying to pick the apples at the top of the tree. You're just starting out, go for the low hanging fruit and establish some good customers/references.
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