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They've already explained their ideas in the form they chose in the application. So the interview starts with questions we had after reading it.

We don't try intentionally to knock people about to see how they respond. We don't have the time or the energy for such games. We just have a lot of questions and not much time to get them answered, and empirically the questions we have almost never turn out to be the ones answered in prefabricated pitches.
Choosing your own schedule seems like a great idea. I got wrapped up in more important engagements in the middle of a Udacity course and by the time I was able to return to working on it, the final exam had already been given, which kind of made me lose interest. Thrun has said in the past that AI will customize the classes the individual needs of the students, so I expect this will improve as the organization matures.
It likely depends on what you're doing as well. For programmers who spend most of their time editing source code and working on a small number of development machines it makes sense to put some effort into customizations to optimize workflow. For sysadmins who have to be able to do work on thousands of machines across various environments it makes sense to know the stock settings inside and out.
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:-) Yeah I will.

I travel to a neighboring city quite often and have to often deal with urgent issues/PRs. In which case, I use Github's website on my mobile browser, but it kind of sucks.
I read your whole blog post and I still don't understand what you do. My advice, when pg asked So what is Rocketr? You should have just answered the question with a straigh, no BS answer.

PG: What is twilio? Twilio is an API for developers to build apps that use SMS and Voice.

PG: What is Google? Google is a search engine.

PG: What is twitter? Twitter is a social platform were users can send small messages and others can suscribe to them, so they can read those messages.
I use CoffeeScript, but I'm reluctant to use SASS or LESS, since they are ugly and I generally want to avoid having to use software to manipulate my HTML/CSS content. I'm fine with JS, but I like my compile script only having to copy my index.html and style.css file across, not having to invoke a CSS compiler.
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You sir need to install 'moom'. Acquire it now :)
My life became a lot easier after I settled on just using My Documents for music, pictures, etc.
They would break anyway, what's your point?
Thanks for the feedback. And yeah TI stands for track length. The others will be added. Thanks!
Very cool! Running into an issue installing lein-light though. Are the jars not posted yet maybe? gist here: https://gist.github.com/3078428
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Everything doesn't have to match exactly all the time. Thats not the definition of minimalism nor even good design.

Copy the thematic elements that work for you, and create new ones that make you stand out.
They advertise that it will work?
> The most exciting addition to the playground is the ability to use your own projects as the context for the Instarepl. You do this by using the lein-light leiningen plugin. Just run lein light from one of your projects and use the sidebar's connect verb to hook into it.

I thought you were exaggerating with this, but it's actually taken directly from the site. I'm sure it makes sense with enough context, but it does sound pretty silly upon first glance.
I have tried that and its a crazy and stupid thing to do. I quickly realized that not performing exceptionally well on the job results in bad productivity even outside of it. Health, family and friends are important and need high priority.
But do you think you did so well early in the term as a result of the deadlines? Perhaps it had no impact, but I'd argue that a lot of people need that requirement to stay on track.
I wonder if he was somehow unknowingly, inadvertently exposed to the trigger in lab that caused the cascade of events leading to runaway cell division. He was, after all, working in a lab studying Leukemia, and he probably worked with Leukemia cell lines a lot. Of course, there is no way to really know how he contracted the cancer, but it is intriguing to wonder about such things.
It says price is 2,39€ for me though (Finnish App Store).
Has anyone who used the pre-test build had trouble with this switch? Since the `pretest` repository that I was using went away, I had to switch repositories, so:

$ tlmgr option repository http://ctan.mackichan.com/

but then:

$ tlmgr update --self
tlmgr: Cannot load TeX Live database from http://ctan.mackichan.com/

This doesn't seem to be an issue with the specific mirror; browsing to the mirror manually shows that it is live, and changing the mirror doesn't help. `tlmgr` has been updating just fine (from the old `pretest` mirror) for months, so I don't think it's an installation issue.
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"four million million shares"? daaamn!
I'm not a designer; but I feel that mistaking good taste, i.e. the expensive black luxury car on the right, with 'boring' just isn't accurate.
link to project website: http://kivy.org
What makes you think that code compiled through C suddenly loses the need for GC?

GC, allocation, thread management, OS interfacing and compilation (JIT or AOT) together make up a VM. Removing the compilation part doesn't make the rest of your VM requirements disappear.

Having used a number of various VMs in the Common Lisp world (yes, including one implementation that went through C) I value the JVM greatly. It is an impressive engineering effort.

Also, I wrote code like yours (hand-written x86-64 SIMD assembly). I then used it from Clojure through JNA and was quite happy with the results.
In this economy, employers can afford to be picky and potential employees will put up with a lot

While I agree that it's important to make sure you hire good employees, "because I can" is not a good reason to make the hiring process as painful and drawn out as possible.
Thanks, I might! I hate tools and mechanisms like this for my normal work, but for recording screencasts within 1280x720 it seems like it could speed things up a lot.
Nice tip on the Ctrl-P link; but I'm curious, is there anywhere that sums up why Ctrl-P would be preferred over Command-T? Aside from being written in pure Vimscript, I haven't seen anything touting any specific advantages or disadvantages in a head-to-head.
I'm not sure if it's helpful, but based on the feedback it might be a useful exercise.

First, take all the main words you use to describe rocketr, and toss them out. Note, collaborate, share, etc.

Second, describe your product entirely through a use case. You talk about telling the story, so tell the story of a user using your app. The parts where Rocketr swoops in and saves the day, where no other tool exists to do so, is where your sweet spot is.

Lastly, distill that story down to a 10 second story. Again, avoid using the words you're trapped in now.

I've developed 3 different pitches for our product depending on who we're talking to. Investors, customers, and the general public (least sophisticated). The one that resonates best with all three is the one for the general public.

Best of luck, keep fighting.
It seems the hard part about this would be mapping kinematics to sign language, hopefully this is decoupled from actually capturing the positions and motions.
My rule of thumb:

If the API contains a version number it its URL, then the developers have considered how people will use their service after they add new features, and it's probably good to use.
e.g.
http://myservice.com/v1/doathing

Unfortunately, there's hardly anyone doing this. As API's get older and we figure these things out, we should see this getting better.

As a side note, if you're interfacing with any API though anything other than a wrapper, then you're asking for trouble.
http://git-scm.com/ works pretty well.
Amazing numbers.

Technically I am sure the site is not that complex. But I use it for 75% of my bookings. And so do many other people..
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The CSS compilers really dont make much sense to me. The language is very easy/simple as is (vendor prefixes are a mess though) and having a compiler's overhead on every request does not feel right to me.

I love JS though, in fact it's my favorite go to language for all kinds of work, heavy duty or light. I thinks that is also a part of the reason I am not inclined towards languages that compile to JS, they kind of destroy the experience of writing JS, which I am very fond of.
A combination (on Android) of aGit, the patched Connectbot (for sshagent key handling) and Terminal IDE (better editing options than connectbot) would work. Maybe install the Hacker Keyboard app too (nicer layout for onscreen keyboard).

aGit currently does not support push and commit, but I believe that is in the works.

I've used this setup on my Transformer Prime. My G2 phone is, of course, smaller, but I have used that to shell into my server and edit config files to fix a problem, so reading and editing code on a mobile device is certainly doable.

A 7" screen device such as the Nexus 7 might a nice balance though I have physical keyboards for my phone and tablet, which I really like.

I have done some editing using the on-screen keyboard on the TF201, not the end of the world, just not as nice as a more conventional keyboard. The constant toggling to get to special keys is tedious.
That sounds hard and error prone. I'd like to see at the very least, sequential commit messages for a topic. Commit diffs would be nice too.
The full screen text is done with Grandview: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/grandview/id432436025?mt=12 .. lets me do full screen text "on the go" rather than have to create it all later.

The recording and (minor) editing is done with Screenflow. I do uploading to YouTube direct from that app too. Mic is a Rode Podcaster.
purpose?
See: https://github.com/sjl/dotfiles/blob/master/vim/vimrc#L35
It would be bloody hard, but I would love to see someone do it. Even if it is just reading code, that would be a huge boost. I could browse interesting repos on the bus/train ride home and check out the code to see if it is something I am really interested in, then I know what to hack when I get home. The ability to read and review pull requests would also be a good feature to add.
What are the major differences between the type of sequencing that was performed in the article and the type that is provided by companies such as 23andMe?
Really strong support for code reviews.
I don't think of read-only as limiting. As a senior engineer on my team, I often want to glance though commits to make sure the new kids aren't making an egregious errors (we do code review as well, but being able to see diffs on my phone would be extremely useful).
Here is the launch post from their blog:

http://blog.plivo.com/post/13402619187/launch-of-plivo-an-op...

I like how their API is similar to Twilio. I'm interested to some of the use cases that the FreeSWITCH platform allows, especially with Skype and Google Voice.
Incredibly frustrating. I have trouble when I have to use other PCs or devices. I can no longer use the "arrow keys" and get momentarily confused when hjkl are showing up in the textarea instead of giving me movement. And I can't tell you how many times I hit escape in LibreOffice/Calc/etc.

This is one reason why I don't use online editors like Google Docs. They don't have great vim keybindings. Even extensions like Vrome and Vimperator fall just a little short. And for apps that do have a subset of the bindings--they are almost worse than having no bindings at all; evince has hjkl, but no gg/G, etc. It drives me mad.

I've configured AwesomeWM to be vim-like, but how I wish there was window toolkit-level support for vim bindings! In fact, I wish I could run everything from vim.
Personally, I first go online to see whether I can find a solution or more info about a problem, but I think that is an approach typical for the more technically inclined types. 'run of the mill' consumers, I think, will directly call the shop where tey bought stuff. I do not think they will call whoever made the phone, if only because they often do not know how to do that.

Yes, there are cases where one can register a product with the producer and get a guarantee that way, but even then, EU law is clear: the buck stops at whoever sold you the device.

So, even then, I would be inclined to contact the seller earlier than the producer because, in the end, if you buy form Q, Q is the only one who has an obligation to help you. In this case, If I were to buy from Google, and things didn't work as expected, I would contact Google. They cannot hide behind "but we bought it from X". If they could, consumers would typically get no support at all. For example, X would say "it looks like the battery is the problem. That is not ours; we bought it from Y"; Y would say "I don't know. Maybe it's the controller chip? Z made that"; Z would say "we outsourced the software for that chip" or "no, it's not the chip, it must be the chemicals in the battery/the device getting too hot due to incorrect firmware in some other CPU", etc.
Advice:

Make something for yourself first. If you've enough space, you can invite others afterwards. But coworking space is like Open Source software. It's fun doing it for other people, but it'll be the most rewarding when you're doing it for yourself.
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Just signed up to trello not too long ago.

It's hard for me to differentiate it from PT. is there any killer features that stands out? It looks as cluttered as PT.
It seems like the spin is just making the situation worse.
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I don't see any marketing speak, but there's a lot of Clojure terminology. If you're not familiar with Clojure I can see how this could be annoying.

REPL: read/eval/print/loop (think irb from Ruby, although there's more to it).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print...

Instarepl: A portmanteau of instant and REPL, meaning a REPL that evaluates immediately as you type.

"context for the Instarepl": essentially the namespace in which the REPL executes, meaning that if you run lein-light inside your project folder you can get access to your project's functions inside LightTable.

leiningen: Clojure's most popular build tool and vector for plugins that enhance the build cycle. https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/
Disgusted at the way how Tech blogs treats people
I have made app called "PlayText" which helps visually challenged to listen to any website by just dialing in a number.See it on PlayText.in

I have emailed Silicon valley's top tech blogs more than 100 times and even I have mailed them individually about "PlayText" but none care to read it or write about it.Whether those people would be interested only in writing about some dumb startups like color which would raise $41 million but end up as nothing?

Why they are not willing to write about apps like mine which is a real game changer and which would help thousands of visually challenged people in accessing websites?
And how many users are on that platform?

Seriously, I admire the effort but nobody's going to a dead-duck platform.
This IMO is an example of using the wrong tool for the job.

Closure is awesome and has it's place, C is the industry standard for performance and also has it's place. The lines will never be crossed between these two languages.

You are trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. If you improve your skills from this project - great, but please don't try to mislead anyone that this is a viable replacement for C (be up front about this).

A language from an entirely different paradigm (Functional language, Garbage collection, tons of abstractions and a huge API) cannot ever be a replacement for or even compete on the same playing field C. We are talking apples to oranges here.
What request overhead? I thought people used them when developing and pushed the compiled result to the server.

And I love JS too, but I use CoffeeScript since it's basically syntactic sugar for JS that saves me some keystrokes and makes my code more readable.
He is claiming a business is a charity to its customers.
Candidate Recommendation; the state of a W3 recommendation where they call for vendor implementations.
You're not the only one. I actually stopped reading and came here to read comments hoping to get a better idea.
Excellent. I've been a long time user of Vim and never saw this until the blog post.
Betteridge's Law sprung from the cautious coverage of uncertain news and unconfirmed current events, not genuine speculative questions.
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Yes. This is a spot where Joel's analogy breaks down.

When a factory/bakery/whatever ships product, that's capital that's immediately converted to a liquid asset (cash). Unless your customers are paying per-feature as they are delivered (when does that ever happen? contracting?) software really doesn't work that way.
I don't know your specialty, but in design or programming, you only really need a good example of your work to get started. Try the monthly freelancer posts on HN. Worst case, here's a list of RSS feeds I used to follow (some can filter by freelance/anywhere): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2465077
http://www.youtify.com/ does Youtube + Soundcloud with a nicer UI.
I was replying Daeken's comment on why $300 seems to be a high number. This number is not representative of average spent by a majority of users but that's what most people assume when they hear "average $300 of monthly revenue per user".

For you to maximize your revenues, by all means go after the whales as that's where the money is. I worked in online gambling industry for a number of years and have seen this happen quite a few times. I.e. an online casino with about 12000 of active users had 85% of its revenues generated by a dozen (as in less than 12) high-rollers.
Indeed, I'm a little surprised they didn't just fork off an existing github project!

And seriously, why's editing and committing from android tablets so far fetched??
Even harder is translating from the sign language to a spoken language. Machine translation is a very much unsolved problem, and sign languages are no more similar grammatically to spoken languages than spoken languages are to spoken languages.
One of the features that I feel sets it apart from Twilio (but that admittedly isn't very well documented) is that you can configure an application to be direct-dial. In layman's terms, you can use Plivo via SIP for an internal phone system and configure how different numbers/extensions are handled when dialed from the SIP phone.
Sequencing is the easy part? What planet are you from? Practical sequencing of whole human genomes required the inventions of brand new De-novo technologies. The problems facing sequencing weren't just tough and complex, but seemingly intractable. The computational stuff seems challenging, but at least the problems are tractable and straightforward.
One of the things I don't like about Haskell is that it has a really complicated type system because it isn't (and couldn't realistically become) dependently typed. This is one of the things that drew me to lisp, you can choose which type system you use.

I must disagree with you on purity though. Purity allows you to apply equational reasoning, it allows compilers to apply optimizations that wouldn't otherwise be possible. It makes multi-threading, if not possible then substantially easier. You do get some of these advantages from having purity by default, but if it's not enforced, you can't get most of them. For me, I see this as an acceptable compromise (actually I don't see it as a compromise at all, if all I got from purity was equational reasoning I'd still use it), but as you point out, the culture amongst lispers is different.

Thanks for the book recommendation, I must admit that I already have a number of books to get through before I'll be able to look into it (including LiSP and "Compiling with continuations"), but I surely will do.
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"We have a solid plan to support Thunderbird until the second half of 2013 and are discussing how we support it beyond that date"

Kindof glossing over the issue, no?
It's about 25% annualized returns for 5 years. Spectacular if it were risk-free. Depending on how much risk you think they were taking on at that stage (probably not much, given how proven out the model was) it's still very good returns.

Late stage venture capital does not seek the kind of 1000x returns that early stage does.
Ask HN: What's the best WYSIWYG CMS for a Rails app? 
What do you guys use for editing the marketing content for your Rails apps? I'm looking for a WYSIWYG CMS because editing copy in code is too much of a pain and so I never get it done.

DHH recommended Brochure, which is just a static site generator with erb templates. I've googled around a bit and found Refinery to be the most recommended choice. I haven't tried it yet, because I wanted to get some recommendations from people here.

I'm sure a lot of you have had this problem. So, any thoughts on how you deal with it would be very helpful.

Oddly enough, I find A/B testing tools like VWO and Optimizely to be great for quick content editing even if I'm not really running an A/B test.
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> I thought people used them when developing and pushed the compiled result to the server.

Oh well, i see, that makes sense, but as i said i don't use them so i don't know very much about them. I probably should use them once just for the sake of checking them out. And coffeescript too. Thanks!
Good question. Basically, it's not really the best way for people to browse this kind of stuff, and there are still lots of people without phones/tablets. You can get a much better picture of things with PM maximized on a 20" screen than you can with a 4" one. The phone is more of a backup for when you're on the road or in a pinch.
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I'm interested in everyone's thoughts about Kayak.

My feeling is that slowly but surely, the travel sellers who buying leads from Kayak will start paying less. So while I see it as a successful business, I'm not really sure where they're planning to go from here.
The author is completely missing the "family" part, no? Once other people's welfare is coupled to your financial success, taking risk is becoming much harder. You can't just drop everything and "follow your dream" if there's a mortgage for a house, tuition for kids, etc.

You can talk to your spouse and figure out a plan, but it's definitely not an easy road to travel. And sometimes, you can only prepare for travelling that road a few years hence.

And it sure as heck would be nice to be spared glib "just do it" advice from people who are not in that situation.

(Also, many people who are in a relationship do follow one of their dreams - being with a person they love. Sometimes, you have to choose between different dreams)
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Why include the MS prefix? the only browser that support is not yet in production and will presumably unprefix it before it ships.