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Couldn't agree more with this point. This is something that many people, the OP (or post writer included), seems to always miss.

VC isn't an emotion game that is driven by jealousy - any more than any other business is driven by jealousy. It's driven by simple economics.

In order for a fund manager to return any money, they have to look for the deals that will compensate for 66% of their deals that go sideways (or tank). Ironically, some probably push all of their portfolio companies to try and achieve this which leads to an increase in the number of companies they have that goes sideways.

But I hardly think they are all sitting around saying..."Gosh Darnit...I never got into Facebook...so here is $5M, add on this Facebook feature."

People that think like that, you can usually tell from having a 10 minute conversation with them. If you take their money after that, then that's your problem. Money comes with strings.

Once you understand what VCs are looking for, it makes it easier for you to align your goals with theirs.

That's why Github never raised money until just now...because they understand the economics that VCs are looking for. They believe, rightfully so, that they have a strong chance of being that company for them.

A16Z, doing that deal, could easily be one of the best moves they ever did. That was a stroke of genius, all around.
The intent of the post is to start a conversation and to have people take another look at YUI. After using jQuery for years in both small and large projects, I took another look at YUI when 3.4 was released and I've really been impressed. I don't think it gets the credit it deserves, mostly because YUI 2 was such a beast. I realize I'm missing a lot of concrete reasoning in the post, but that's primarily because I didn't want this to be a conversation about the right and wrong ways, or simply a syntax comparison.
Also, for those debugging, see:

https://twitter.com/illuminations4d/status/22728017176024268...
I find that hard to believe. The songs are actually "shuffled," in the same sense as a deck of cards is. One a song is "drawn" from the shuffled deck, it is not put back until the deck is exhausted and shuffled again. So in any shuffle, each song must show up exactly once.

There's a setting in iTunes DJ, however, to "play higher rated songs more often."
I don't use Foursquare, just read the description of the service.

Does Foursquare use the very last step in the description?
My understanding is they update location when user "checks in", not when system detects that the user's device is stationary.
Funny thing most Americans don't know is that international coach is really decent too. E.g. I've never been on an intercontinental flight without unlimited free alcohol aside from on Delta, and any plane put together in the past few years will have USB/power sockets in every seat.
The author makes it seem as if you have two choices: "tolerance and dependence" or "kick the habit". Maybe acting like caffeine is methamphetamine bumps up the pageviews, I don't know.

But I do know that caffeine once or twice a week for a burst of energy won't see you developing a tolerance - so you can continue to benefit.
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This is interesting, but the article just explains the benefits of coffee. What are the downsides? I would like to hear why he quit.
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The rule would be improved if it only capitalized the first letter when the first word does not contain any capital letters.
Interesting idea, so the more they try to profit from the crud, then the worse it looks, so more players try to profit off their own crud before their crud becomes worthless, and so on.

Presumably if that is true, there would be a threshold after which you don't have to keep pushing because the behaviour of the patent holders is doing all your work for you and the law gets changed because nobody wants to do business in that environment.
What is this "rest of the world" you speak of?
Inventing a new identity system that features 1, portability and 2, end-user price of $0 is surely possible, but surely more than "a little extra work."

DNS has the virtue of being here now, being tested and refined over multiple decades, and offering a choice between subdomains for free or portability for a nominal annual cost. It's not perfect but it's good.
>> You would barely even notice the nexus 7 in your bag

That's the point. To carry more than a device comfortably, now you need a bag :)
I've had multiple VCs call a potential 1-10MM/yr business a lifestyle business. The pressure to move away from that idea to something with a higher market cap is tremendous.

Regarding your second point, "you promised not to go down the slow path," I think that's true in most cases, but there is some VC money that's too easy to get, and the founder's don't really realize the promise they're making.

I feel like this is particularly true among YC startups, where it seems fashionable to take VC money right after demo day, regardless of other company factors (IE: traffic, growth, revenue, etc). The "invested in the team" argument works for YC and Start Fund, but it feels almost irresponsible for VC's to invest in first time entrepreneurs on the same premise. My sample size is tiny, but I think it puts far too many people in a situation they don't want to be in (which they'll realize X months down the road).

That last part is pretty controversial. Interested in other people's thoughts.
It also looks like a patent on elements of networked fleet vehicle tracking, which has been around since the '90s.
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I clicked the link hoping to read something substantive about an actual problem in SV. Instead, so far it's looking a lot like a group of people at a party getting together and complaining, "this party is lame."

I kinda hope this submission gets killed, honestly.
Unless the iPhone10 has a cheap CPU
Huh - well my apologies for making an assumption. I suppose it depends on the role/size of company
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EPIC has more background info at http://epic.org/privacy/streetview/

I just cannot understand why Google allowed wifi data to be collected in the first place.

With their recent launch of Fiber, I hope they become more forthcoming and transparent (even in cases where they are not being investigated).
This makes the "Twitter-like" system less "Twitter-like". Don't get me wrong, I see your point, and I can think of a technical solution (point to OPML feed collections instead of feeds), but the further this gets from the original popular thing (Twitter) the less support and momentum it's going to have, imho. On Twitter it's one stream per user, and that keeps things simple. And simplicity is a huge part of the value add of twitter.
Organic Chemistry is not rocket science. I haven't seen those videos, but if they are introductory subjects, 2 immersed weeks sound about enough to me. I'll take a look at the videos today and see.
Exactly. The conclusion seems to be: Caffeine does not directly give you energy, so don't abuse it with the hope of having an endless supply of energy.

Okay.
When I find a great fishing spot, I always make sure I release a joint statement informing the fish.
At what point is a GMail plugin able to transform itself into a startup like Rapportive? A to-do list probably don't have a very big chance of changing the world, but a better one has the potential to impact a small subset of people who feel the same pain points as the founders. Probably not startup worthy, but the main point of a startup is really to take a problem and find a solution to it, and if these kids are addressing a real problem and making a calculated shot at a solution, then why not?
And further that could be guarded against fairly easily. Reshuffle would exclude the last ten songs from being the next ten songs, etc.
Depends where you go to school. At many private schools, parents simply pay all the kids' living expenses. Sure, some people work, but I would say more than half simply have money deposited in their checking account by family. I know many people from my years at college who had never worked a job until their first job after graduation.
One problem I've seen people encounter when hiring "solid entrepreneurs" is that the "entrepreneur" may be very used to doing everything themselves, and to making all the decisions. Sometimes, this makes it very hard for them to cooperate with a larger team, with priorities that are decided by negotiation between different parts of the team.

Obviously not every entrepreneur has these weaknesses as an employee, but some do.
Much better. Now I would make the "Sign up now for early access!" text vertically align with the text on the left. You should probably also use the same colors for your background as you do for your logo, since they look like pale shades of the same color.
Same story over here with http://Feetlot.com

The last 4 weeks have been great, went from prototype to alpha.

When I think about my group and that they are waiting for my video (as I wait for theirs), I just can't slack around and so I get back to coding. When I record videos, I feel like I'm on TV but for ~15 people. Just can't let them down!
You know you can buy tablets with Windows 7 today right? It does not have a touch-optimized interface but you can run any program on it, and you might even be able to dual-boot Android.
If best practice for database access security is to monkey patch the functions... ON THE CLIENT... i'm writing this off.
Agreed. The anti-college bias here is astounding. College is an incredible time to learn everything.

I think the problems are several-fold:

1. College works for many people but not all. In addition, there's an American cultural meme that claims college is the absolute and only key/way to success, which isn't or shouldn't be true. I think you're experiencing the backlash, and you're part of the backlash to the backlash (the forelash, perhaps?).

2. The price of college is eroding the lifetime earnings gains for graduates in many fields.

3. Many people don't realize how universities work, which I've written about here: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/why-how-universitie... and elsewhere.

4. Academics face perverse incentives that demand they produce research, even of dubious or low quality, rather than teach. Consequently, the academic experience many people have in college, especially big public schools, is at hit and miss, with a strong emphasis on miss. For highly self-motivated people, this might not be as big an issue.
You got it baby!

That's exactly the idea. It's a bootstrap. You use the systems that are in place now to boot up the successor.

It's never either/or. You use everything that works, that has people on it that you need to reach, as long as they welcome you.

This has been the problem with Google-Plus. They don't have an API that lets you post to it. But Twitter does. To everyone who follows me on Twitter, they don't have any idea that I'm not really on their network. In every sense that matters I am.

But when Twitter goes down, I keep posting, and people who are hooked in my feed still get the new stuff.
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"Note: Execute $ meteor remove autopublish on every project from the root project directory. It publishes all your data by default to the client and is poor practice."

This note does not belong in any article that also contains the heading "What is Meteor?". You should remove autopublish eventually, but it's a great piece of scaffolding.
There needs to be some liquidity event for employees who own stock. Equity is a big part of compensation in a startup. No company "has" to go public, but they could lose a significant portion of their workforce if they don't.
Has anyone tried it with Ubuntu 10.04?
I stopped reading here: "The roadblocks he faced in building the world’s biggest social-networking company were tiny, like an overdramatized civil lawsuit" and also wished for a "downvote" button. This trivializes what it takes to build a multi-billion-dollar company—any multi-billion-dollar company.
A better article, IMO:
http://lifehacker.com/5585217/what-caffeine-actually-does-to...
Hehe, I suppose that is true. And you are most welcome, thanks for the support!
This article seems mixed to me.

If you're building a start-up now, you have two options the way I see it. 1) Build a sustainable business that charges some form of money. 2) Build a killer feature that attracts users and allows you to get bought by a larger company.

Right now, the larger companies are flush with money. Corporate revenues are outrageously high, particularly in the tech sector. So, the second option is just winning out right now because that's where the money is.

If this were to change and there was less investment from the existing players in tech, you'd see more sustainable businesses.

The complaint that the tech industry is not making any good tech is akin to people's gripes that the movie industry doesn't make good movies. For tech, the money right now is in features. For movies, the money right now is in mindless blockbusters. They're both businesses and like any good business, the players on the field optimize their strategy according to where the money is.
I think the major complaint this guy has is that there is no funding for small businesses, and he is correct. VCs are interested in high growth businesses where one success makes their fund. Given that banks aren't giving out loans to internet startups and VCs/angels are the only source of capital, this can affect the kinds of businesses that are started.
I'm thinking of it as a test for the simplest possible thing I can ask someone that will tell me immediately if they're worth talking to or not. I mentioned this in another post, the one I use that people bomb most often is: "I want to run this command on 100 files. Write me a for-loop in the shell of your choice to do it."
That's true of email as well, though.
That's right. But where are all those startups inventing alternatives to smartphones/iPhones/iPads ? I need a gulp of fresh air in communication.
Genuine question: how is this different from companies that already have significant traction for pickup-orders like GrubHub and Seamless?
Do you have a good citation for "Too little fat in the diet causes depression"?

I did a quick search, and turned up a study in PLoS ONE[1] which found trans fatty acids correlate with increased depression, while there is a weak inverse relation to mono- and polyunsaturated fat intake. But a blog reviewing the study[2] points out some limitations. And some research mentioned at [3] apparently concluded there is a link between depression and DHA specifically, but if that's true it wouldn't affect only vegetarians: "Most people in the Western world do not get enough omega-3 fatty acids [such as DHA] in their diet."[4]

Your claim is new to me, and as someone on a low-fat vegan diet, if you have a more conclusive reference I'd be curious to see it.

[1] http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone...

[2] http://evolutionarypsychiatry.blogspot.com/2011/01/dietary-f...

[3] http://www.fi.edu/learn/brain/fats.html

[4] http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/docosahexaenoic-acid-0003...
Or it should stop trying to second guess users.
AznHisoka had a great comment below...unless your plugin is bringing in serious revenue -- perhaps enough money to pay your living costs, it's a project, not a startup
I have a friend who claims his aunt (Who works of MS) said that it would cost $1k (This was literally the day of the announcement, too). He has been rather reliable in the past, but it should still be taken with a grain of salt, since I was given no context.
You could argue that the iPad does much more than surf the web and play videogames. It's a matter of how you use it and how well is integrated in your workflow.

I know plenty of medical staff who are receiving training now to use iPads as the sole computing device in the hospital, for example. Same for a lot of financial companies.

Microsoft is trying to sell the idea that you can have the best of both worlds (traditional PCs and tablets) without sacrifices but its simply not true. Something's gotta give. In the case of Surface I expect a lot of frustration trying to use a standard windows app on a small touchscreen. And if you are going to connect the device to an external monitor, keyboard and mouse, you might as well have a small desktop PC.

this is not new, either. Microsoft has tried time and again, first with TabeltPCs, then the overhyped UMPCs (remember those?) and its always hitting the same walls.

If you are going to do a big change in the paradigm you have to have the balls to do it completely and take the advantages that switching to a "pure" tablet experience can offer. Leave bloated software behind, leave all the legacy support, etc...
Lol, wonder how much adderall he was on when he wrote this? Brilliant rambling but with a somewhat feverish, twitchy aspect to it...

I used to take adderall and it was awesome. I got shit done, was fabulously thin, and all my documents were meticulous and colour coded. I didn't like the insomnia though, and it made me sort of depressed in the evenings when coming off it.
i just got bricked updating my own firmware...
This article is emblematic of the hardest challenge Khan Academy faces, IMO, as it tries to change the educational system from the current 'lecture at school, practice at home' approach used by virtually all schools today, to the 'learn at home, tinker and interact at school' championed by Khan Academy.

The hardest challenge is this: disrupting the educational experience requires buy-in from teachers, administrators, regulators, academics, and existing service providers, but all these parties are nearly always resistant to change and well-entrenched in their positions, making large-scale change very, very, very slow and difficult.

The optimist in me wishes Sal Khan and his team only success as they take on, and attempt to co-opt, the educational establishment. The realist in me thinks they face a long, tough battle.
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If you aren't paying for the product, you are the product. It is true. But now, so many applications are based on these monopolistic API, which can change terms and conditions and pricing at any time. More than 1 000 000 3rd party apps for twitter, even Google maps changed pricing recently. It is about charging money, but also about policy and involvment to developers, viable business model and company's roadmap. But without any "rating" how would you manage your cloud supply chain with thousand of APIs?
hm, don't be so sure. I was of your opinion and recently changed that when learnt about Instagram success.

It seems like internet is still a very young thing and people jump the ship or move on to a new thing very often, without much sentiment, like a child on a playground going from one toy to another.

Twitter introduced photos sharing long time ago, but it didn't stop guys from Insta to literally rip it off (adding "follows" and similar features). Where one thought "well I cannot build photo sharing service because the giant in the room (twitter) just introduced it" -- the others just continued pushing the code and eventually exit for $1B.

I think at some point users will move on from Facebook like they did from MySpace. MySpace biggest problem was javascript, audio and graphical clutter that rape you fresh out of the screen once the page finished loading. So others (hello Facebook) took advantage of it and come up with similar page but this time nice fresh and cleancut. So let's move further and ask ourselves a question: what is the biggest Facebook problem? I believe right now it is overclutter with irrelevant info served from your network. Having more than 100 "friends" makes your wall so clutter than no information is of value anymore.

So you want to come up with Facebook killer? no problem -- just build a system (whether mechanical or manual) where users can take real advantage out of their network, not miss important update from important friends and miss the unnecessary garbage they are not interested in. Don't be fooled by "oh they wont come because they did all this work building up their facebook profiles". Not only there is FB Api that you can connect to and download all FB user data in minutes, but if FB would close that gate, you can still program a info scrapper that would do so.

Bottom line: Facebook won't be here forever, and next stage of social is million connected friends but only relevant info rendered.
Sadly a legal marriage and and religious marriage are not independent. Thanks to fear of white women going off and marrying black men we have the legacy of marriage licenses to deal with, and at least in my state it is illegal for for a minister to perform a religious marriage without a civil license/contract.

Realizing that this affords some protections for those cluelessly love struck who could be left with no legal recourse should the relationship dissolve, it still pisses me off quite a bit that I need permission of any sort from the government to practice a religious rite.
I'm not so sure about that. Facebook is WAY overpriced. It will take years to recoup the costs and they have very few prospects of making money in the forseeable future.
I support your theory that Facebook will make 100bn back, but by the time Facebook does, the 100bn will be worth far less than that amount, due to potential earnings.

As an example, I bought Qantas shares a while ago - and held them for 10 years. Their value didn't go up much in 10 years, so the "potential" earnings of that money was not realised - so despite the shares not going backwards, I lost out.

Facebook is a losing proposition, unless they pull a rabbit out of the hat - and there's nothing on the horizon at all that even indicates they will come up with something.
There's also quite a bit of range between people who drink two cups of mild coffee a day, people who drink soda and people who chug down espressi.
Yeah that second link was more illustrative of the idea than a proven market point. The hitbox is real and used by high level players though.

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On a side note, however, it's seems that you're coming more from a PC gaming perspective than an arcade/console perspective, which is probably the root of our ideological divide on the controllers.
There are two more aspects of how coffe works that the author did not cover. Caffeine also affects your blood vessels and adrenaline levels.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/caffeine.htm
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Then add some concrete reasoning and comparison. Do some work. Fuel the conversation. Otherwise the only thing left is the assumption that you do not understand the differences between the two tools. I'm a YUI-hater and jQ-fan, so I appreciate what you're trying to do, but it needs some substance.

edit:

I don't mean to come off dickish. I started out writing my own AJAX libs in 2002-2003, started stealing some good ideas from Prototype in 2004-5, eventually trusted my fate with jQ in 2006, and have facepalmed every time anyone recommends we use YUI since the day of its release. It's like the worst of both poles...it is neither a fluid, lightweight swiss-army knife like jQ, nor a well-constructed application framework like ember. Instead it always seemed to be a rigid set of off-the-shelf components that appealed to people who liked to talk about design patterns but not actually build anything.
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