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You know, this thing called OS is a thing that makes your files be actually saved on the hard disk, or when you plug the USB stick there, or that makes for programs possible to use TCP and not program the hardware of your network card, or that makes the letters visible on your screen.

From a point of view of an OS developer, what you talk about are still just applications, and that has nothing to do with an OS.

You're just making a confusion if you're trying to invent the new meaning of the names. Is that your goal?
I'm applying it differently, and to the business before his pivot. I'm talking about his conversation with Facebook and his accusation that Facebook was underhanded. He didn't do a proper job of disrupting FB's economics, distribution, or organizational limitations, so he's got no grounds to complain that they 'bullied' him. That should have been his expectation.
In my experience it's 30-40% more expensive, but I try to make the responsiveness fluid from min to max, instead of targeting certain breakpoints so I might be spending a bit more time than others.
Wholeheartedly agreed. My reaction to the headline was: "What!? B2B is awesome! It's REAL!"
I agree. I am anti Lorem Ipsum but it is a placeholder for the time being.

We have some amazing templates that are part of the beta that are as beautiful and flexible as a lot of the Tumblr themes. The theme syntax is actually very similar too. Here is a draft https://github.com/Sendicate/sendicate-theme-docs
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By wrapping mistakes in scare quotes, you're implying (at least from my point of view) that what most people consider to be Microsoft's mistakes were not mistakes, but shrewd business moves. My point was that, were you to go back in time and inhabit the body of Bill Gates, there are a ton of moves you would probably want to do differently.
Thanks. That is fixed in the next release.
Sometimes, there is no conspiracy. HN's become rather cynical now.
One thing you might want to look at: slight font issues on Windows. http://i.imgur.com/JukcS.png

(Win7, Chrome)
I get that, and I'm saying you don't need someone at an incubator to tell you that.
Men have been making this trade-off for centuries. It's self evident to us that the world works this way. That's why we don't write articles about it. When reading similar articles from women lamenting this trade-off, the response is a resounding "what did you expect?"
Not really. The Samwer brothers may not be innovators, but they are problem solvers. They solve the very huge problem of internationalisation. Zynga doesn't solve anyone's problems. They just aim to kill/leech off competitors.
doesn't matter. along with getting rid of the latch it's one the best things apple has done to laptops.
If there is such a thing as the standard startup model, then I'd argue that it would be the B2B model.

The current mold of web/social/mobile/location startups is the exception to the norm in the history of high tech startups.
Thanks we noticed that too. Will be pushing out a fix shortly.
Let me know how it goes. We're exploring CloudFlare now and think Railgun has massive potential for our uses.
D'oh! :)
Hype vs numbers
i'd like to see somebody think non-functionally with haskell
You could say the same about absolutely anything. You have to try it to appreciate how much of a positive impact it can have on your life/plans/schedule. I cannot function without a detailed outline. Every single thing I do - personal, work, long-term projects, social obligations, house chores - is part of an outline. It's nice to be able to offload your brain to an app that will remember it forever so that you can concentrate on better things. I even take minutes in real-time during all meetings in the form of nested outlines.

Plus, Matt Cutts uses Workflowy. So you have to wonder how much of an impact a good outline can have on the world!
> but I think people are willing to pay more because their advertising/conversion math enables it, and that math is easier to back up with facts.

Yeah. This makes /absolute/ sense if you are actually tracking what you want to track. (e.g. I think that when I buy adwords, most of the conversions are from people that had a good chance of buying from me from the organic results; I believe that people only buy from me if they've heard of me before; if my brand reputation, in their mind, is good enough.)

My theory is that most trackable advertising that exists now does not really track as well as you think it does.

If I'm right, then trackable advertising is overvalued (because the actions that are tracked are only peripherally related to the buying decision.) - of course, right now most people disagree with me.
No. First, get password. Second, get phone number. Third, pretext to gain control of the account and forward/copy texts, view them via web interface, or replace the phone.
We're open to and welcome programmers of all ages. We don't ask for age or keep stats on this, so we don't know for sure. Anecdotally, most of our students are in their 20s and 30s, but we've had some in their late teens and a couple in their 40s.
Wirebound artists sketch pads. Usually the store brand from Office Depot or Staples or wherever I pick up a fresh batch. I carry at least one of these things and box of colored pencils, plus a couple of drafting pencils, with me most of the time for quick doodling and sketching out ideas and what-not.
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How many NASA contractors have been nationalized in the past?
> Our free markets have no smart way of pricing that kind of [potential disease catastrophe].

So true. Ireland's devastating "potato famine" was another example of the catastrophe that can result from free-market-drive overdependence on a single monoculture --- in this case the "lumper" potato variety, which was susceptible to the Phytophthora infestans blight --- with no genetic diversity [1]. It's estimated that the famine led to the death or emigration (in roughly equal numbers) of some 20% of the island's population [2].

(One of my grandmothers was first-generation Irish-American; I remember her telling stories of the famine that she'd heard passed down in her family.)

[1] http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/agriculture...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Blight_i...
Sounds like Emacs org-mode for non-geeks.
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Getting the 'retry for a live version' banner.

Also, one of my clients had to turn off Cloudflare this week because of customer complaints. They weren't using Railgun, but were getting too many false errors with HTTPS enabled (https -> cloudflare -> https server). They thought it might be an odd interaction with SPDY.
As a pro WorkFlowy user, I understand where he is coming from. I've often wondered what you could do improve the product but I haven't been able to think of anything (yet).
Quantcast's free audience reports couldn't be copied by the incumbents (Comscore and Nielsen), because selling similar reports was their core business. They hated us, but we never spent a moment worrying about them. In fact we were always open to working with them, but they were bound up in a knot over our model.

Southwest undercut united and American by avoiding business and first class, flying only one model of plane (737), which lowered maintenance costs and allowed easier substitution of planes among flights. They skipped the hub and spoke model and flew out of peripheral airports that were cheaper, and boarded like buses with no reserved seats to shorten the idle time a the gate, etc. no long flights meant no meal service. There was no possible way for United and American to match them on price. They were afraid to adopt any of these changes because it might tarnish their brand. They were too focused on competing with each other.

Dell offered lower costs than their competitors by charging up front for the computer before buying the parts (which were steadily falling in price). The competition were stuck with a channel model where they shipped finished computers to channel partners for stocking in inventory, so they not only had to buy parts far in advance but had to give a cut to channel partners and retailers, making their prices higher and profit lower.

Netscape had a dozen competitors to their browser. Netscspe offered free downloads to anyone, and with a wink asked for a licensing fee. No individuals paid it, but corporations did because they wanted to be in legal compliance. Best of both worlds (free for individuals and paid by corporations, but only after achieving critical mass within the corporation). They crushed their competitors with this model, who were charging license fees to all customers from the beginning, as competitors didnt get the benefit of rogue employee groundswell to achieve critical mass in corporations.

Hilariously, Microsoft in turn crushed Netscspe by goong a step further, making Internet Exploror completely free, no wink needed. Netscspe browser revenue dried up as corporations stopped paying for Netscape because they already had a free license to ie.

This was funny to me, as it led to all sorts of crybaby behavior by Netscape screaming "antitrust!", when all Microsoft did was tweak the strategy used by Netscape themselves to crush the others.

All of these cases are "strategy", which is defined by Michael Porter as the way that you are different from your competitors. Ideally, in a way they cannot copy. Notice how a strategy allows you to avoid competing, because you're playing a different game altogether.
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I suggest reading this previous blog post: http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...
Yes. Railgun worked fine, but I managed to kill my origin server by accident :-)

Did you talk to someone in support about the HTTPS thing?
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Index cards. I doodle on either the blank side of ruled cards or purchase un-ruled index cards. I brainstorm on whichever side makes sense.
How do you approach using Popup Chinese. It's unclear to me where to start with their materials, or how to best use their materials.
Pff, that just depends on the definition of 'ad', but in my experience your definition is not in line with how most people interpret and use the word 'ad'. When I tell my friend how great these sneakers are for wearing, are those words an 'ad' for Nike? No, generally only those messages for which the beneficiary of commercial success of the product under consideration has paid for are defined as 'ads'.
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My understanding is the games are going to be a massive loss for the city.
Are you a product or a customer?
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Been looking for this product for a long time!
It's been in the Android Market for 10 months now. They've almost certainly seen it. I'm obviously not taking credit for what they've created. Just wanted an app that would allow me to use it full-screen. Thousands of others did, too. It's free, no ads. Was just becoming familiar with the Android SDK at the time, and whipped it up in an hour.
Workflowy people: Please please please provide an API. I like your tool, but 99% of the time I'm doing something I need to make a todo, I need to do it somewhere other than looking at your web page. For example, from within vim. Or at the command line. Or while checking email. A nice API would allow me to whip up tools that make it super easy to access from wherever.

Other than that, very nice tool :)
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How many NASA contractors have been nationalized in the past?

Probably not zero, if you are genuinely interested. However, lazy quips aside, the past is not the future.
You are right, I was confusing reliability and safety.

That said, we currently have little reliability data on various SpaceX technologies, and no safety data at all. They are doing everything they should do to make those numbers good, but until those numbers come in we won't know what to think of them.
IE's inclusion in Windows (which dominated the market) had a lot to do with Microsoft crushing Netscape - it wasn't just that IE was free and Netscape wasn't.
Sounds more fun.
I'm interested in how accessibility fits in here.

Does it get built in at the beginning whether people chose a responsive design or separate pages? Or does it get kludged in at the end, if at all?

I had really hoped that the adoption of smart phones would mean that more sites would have either simpler pages, or would have a minimal version of the page. For example; most sites could get away with a read-only, html+css tiny version of the page. But I accept that I'm wrong and that very few people share that vision and most people want everything on a handheld device.
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The key argument in the complaint:

"Not only does The Ville blatantly mimic the entire framework and style of gameplay in The Sims Social, but it so closely copies the original, creative expression and unique elements of The Sims Social — i.e., the animation sequences, visual arrangements, characters’ motions andactions, and other unique audio-visual elements — that the two games are nearly indistinguishable."

The pages marked 17-34 in the complaint contain a number of screenshots demonstrating just to what degree the "original, creative expression" was copied. Specific colors, proportions, and even action sequences appear to be nearly identical. This is most definitely not coincidence, and (as the complaint notes on page 9-12) is common practice for Zynga.
The article kind of glossed over this, but the Click through rate of .55% is off the charts. It's _clearly_ fraud, based on having seen thousands of ad campaigns data. Anything over .1 is great, and over .2 you start looking for what you broke.

.55 is an Adops executive daydream.

(The .059% from UK visitors is about what you'd expect)
Wow, I forgot about the latch. Been using a MacBook for 3 years and I guess I take it for granted. Was Apple the first to ditch that?
I suspect that the Facebook App Center is different than the iTunes App Store in an analogous way and will do nicely competing against it once Facebook chooses to do so.
Most of it is kinetic energy.
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> (Don't laugh - based on the description that Elon gave in an interview, the failure of their third launch was due to a sensor that concluded they were in high in the atmosphere while they were still on the ground.

Source? If you're talking about F1-003, you're incorrect. If you're talking about something else, I'm interested.
So little guy vs big guy has relevance? I thought the law was what was relevant. Suggesting that the perpetrator of an act ought to be treated differently based on factors unrelated to the actual action seems wrong. If a poor homeless guy robs my house, I want him just as arrested as the rich guy that does it.

But, if we're supposed to be pulling for the little guy, then we should be supporting Apple against Samsung right? Samsung makes over twice Apple's yearly revenue. The blatant copying by Samsung of Apple (even down to icon colors and packaging design) is just as obvious as Zynga's ripoff.
It's just a Chinese Parent thing. I went to Berkeley (EECS) but my mom is always telling me about her friend's son who's doing a PhD at Harvard, or her friend's son who's a director at some chip firm, etc. You get used to it after a while.
pmarca has been a personal friend and mentor to me for over 2 years. I have learned a lot from him.

I know where he stands about all of this. I don't want to drag him into this fight any more than he already is, but I don't think you understand pmarca very well.
Took 45-50 seconds to load and finally go this page
http://imgur.com/kSJRv.

Hope that helps.
From what I understand, they also did a phenomenally good job of making the uploading slick.
The people I know who love it the most have pets and/or children. I do not, but I like the ease of connecting and disconnecting it and when I visit my family who do have pets and children I also appreciate the MagSafe connector.
1-in-6/50MM without health insurance is not as straightforward a fact as it seems. Not saying there isn't a problem, just pointing out a few considerations:

1. Insurance is not the same as coverage. Plenty of Americans who do not have health insurance are covered through various programs for children, the elderly, veterans, etc.

2. Insurance is voluntary, and many people who can in fact afford it, simply choose to spend money on "stuff", including that sacred cow of american life, home ownership.

3. The statistics for the uninsured (like your 1-in-6 number) include the elderly, the illegal immigrants, those who are uninsured only part of the year, and other groups that skew the results.

4. If 50MM (although I dispute that number as per above) cannot get the heart surgery because they don't have any coverage but the other 250MM can, it's better than, say, 200MM not being able to get the surgery because of waiting times or ineligibility. Of course, those are totally made up numbers, I am just making a point.
...doesn't follow the standard startup model.

Remember, the standard startup model is, "Fail."

Anything you can do to not follow that is good. ;-)
Not sure why I'm being down-voted, there have been several major research studies and they all support this. Ask any dermatologist and they will tell you the same thing. Or read some more of the research papers (a dermatologist operates this website):

http://acnemilk.com/home

"The site is a work in progress and will contain the history of the link between milk and acne, links to scientific articles both published and unpublished, thoughts on the mechanisms involved in the production of acne, and treatment protocols I have used with success in managing thousands of acne patients in over thirty years of dermatology consulting practice."

You are drinking lots of pregnant female cow hormones when you drink milk, eat cheese or butter (which is even worse than plain milk as the DHT is already converted). You're just jacking up your DHT levels and that's like turning on an oil spigot. It is a major player in acne and baldness in men.
Great examples. How do you think this would apply in Dalton's case though, where the very mechanism of building on Facebook/Twitter's platform can be shut down by Facebook/Twitter?
Corporations reduce the transaction costs between many actors, allowing large projects to be done with greater economic efficiency. This is also true for Valve. For a company their size, my guess is that they've found a much better way of collaborating efficiently than hierarchies.
Doesn't US news have per-degree rankings? If not, taking a more "objective" ranking in computer science of the number of paper awards received at CS conferences [http://jeffhuang.com/best_paper_awards.html#institutions], UW easily places in #3, among Stanford, CMU, and MIT. Maybe the roommate could show his dad that...
If I recall correctly, Skype has an auto-answering video call feature.
>A lot of companies see RIT as a huge talent pool, and dedicate quite a bit of recruiting resources to look for potential interns and full-timers. Plus, you'll find peers that you can use to develop your professional network.

That's too much money to spend on a technical degree. You could make the argument Harvard or Yale is worth that kind of money because your contacts are with people who are going to be senators and CEOs. But a place like RIT? $44k/yr is way too much money for what you're going to get.
I'm unsure this is true anymore. If you know how to play B2B (the same lies true for B2C), it's entirely plausible to get the first 1-5 deals pre-build (I did).

If you consider that equal to the first traction burst in B2C, then I'd argue that the ambiguity for B2C is just as large, if not larger, in the early days.

It is my no means an overall risk / reward inflection point (and if you are referring to 'this company is guaranteed to exit' I agree), but as an early 'this might have something' B2B can validate fast.
I use http://www.checkvist.com/, fully keyboard-driven interface with all sorts of perks. Haven't compared it directly to Workflowy, just putting it out there. No affiliation.
Free seemed to work fine for Chrome and Firefox. The real key here is that corporations stopped paying for Netscspe, which was their main revenue stream. Microsoft definitely got a big advantage from bundling the browser, but how can it make sense in an Internet era for an OS to ship without a browser? How could it possibly benefit consumers if they were forced to download a browser separately? Nobody is screaming antitrust when Apple bundles Safari.
If Zynga had 'prior access' and their resulting product is similar, then it's easy to prove an infringement.
This is such a surprising claim that I had to check, and it does not appear to be true.

Copy the image from the complaint into an image editor and look at the RGB values with the color tool. I looked and didn't see a single match.
Well, sustainable would indicate he can keep doing it. How frequently can he procure $10,000 batches of vinyl records?
This article doesn't have any scientific base.

Insect have exoskeleton so they can't grow like ducks or bats. They have to make a series of metamorphosis to grow. Usually the form for change from one stage to the next step, because they are adapted to different lifestyle. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis#Insect_metamorpho...

Butterflies are one of the most well known and extremes cases of changes. The caterpillar shape is adapted to eat a lot and be camouflaged, the butterfly shape is adapted to travel and mate. (Both shapes share the same general blueprint. For example, if you see a caterpillar carefully, it has only 6 small real legs in the front, and some prolegs in the back.)
I don't claim to understand @pmarca at all. I've never even shaken the man's hand.

I've got some great supporters and advisors who help me tremendously. It just pains me to watch someone great like that drift further from a startup.
There was a nice article in the New Yorker last year about it. Not available online but you can probably find it at your local library.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/01/10/110110fa_fact_...
It doesn't sound anything like enterprise software to me. I work for a company that's pretty high up on the F500 list, and believe me, we don't let vendors charge us based on what we can afford.