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If this is successful, it will cause a "water hammer" which will effectively destroy the sewage network. In hotels there is a high pressure pipe without locally storing water so if everybody flushes together there won't be too much water. In an apartment building or small hotel the local storage is enough to destroy the building's
sewer.

It's like if when you had a network congestion the cable broke!

The schools in my country go once a year a trip, usually staying in a hotel. It was sort of customary the
day they left the hotel to do the synchronized flush thing to see if the hotel survives. The one I witnessed had a sort of thundering noise and the network bursted in a couple of places.
I understand why people celebrate raising money. Everyone understands it's not the success yet, but it's sort of a bar-mitzvah for startups, acceptance by some authoritative entity (VC) that you're a grown-up and can do serious stuff. I may imagine it's really a moment of celebration, especially for young founders with not much of successful careers behind them.
> backup, no guarantees

What's the use?
Your ideas have some similarities with a site that was recently pitched on UK's Dragon's Den http://www.eatwithalocal.socialgo.com/
might be some inspiration there
that's funny because coffeescript is meant to be all about readability in code. I wonder if you really tried to read this or if you just commented based on the title. If you did really read it, I wonder if you found it hard to read because your opinion is tainted by those C style languages? It's not scientific of course but I just got my non coder, non technical girlfriend to read through both the coffeescript and javascript versions of this and I definitely had to explain a lot less to her with the coffeescript version, she says it's easier to read because it's structured more like plain English.
oh i remember mingle i think... always felt it's like a dating/hookups platform.

basically the professional component of what i want to build, at least from what I can tell by their website. going to try this right away.
My take is Google have acted as a talent black hole. They have absorbed such a massive proportion of the top talent over the last few years it's starting to cause a serious problem to their competition, such as the iOS Maps business.
We don't need yet another scheme for managing passwords. If you can, use something like PHP's new password API: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/password_hash
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> I have searched for a problem that they're more suited to, and I've come to the conclusion that GAs are in fact not known to work on any problem.

Yes, that's my opinion too. GAs model natural selection, which is extremely slow. The only reason it works in nature is the huge timescales and the lack of anything better (since it has to start from essentially nothing - there is no designer).
The media player is terrible. I had to download the .mp3 and listen to the file locally.

I love the idea, though!
Last Monday, I was with a friend and received an important email: had to send a few PDFs to a contact that were contained in a ZIP file. He was amazed that I could do that easily with my android phones, unzip, share the files through gmail and send everything to my contact.

Since then, he does not want an iPhone anymore. I did the transition myself 2 years ago, and I have never looked back. What you loose in UX/Eye Candy (even if Android is doing better now), you win in freedom.
See my reply here for an explanation of how little that conclusion of the paper means: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4561418

In particular they tuned the GA but not he hill climber, so it's not clear that GAs win even on this artificially designed problem.
Oh, it looks like FF doesn't support mp3. I will have to look into distributing multiple file formats then, e.g. ogg. Thanks for pointing this out.
A bit of toothpaste diluted with water, and a gentle fingertip, may take that scratch out of your Leopard disc. Do less than you think is necessary, then stop and assess.

In part, it seems some people "have the touch" for such work. I've fixed up a few abused (by others) music CD's this way.
I'm just using an HTML audio tag :) Will look into better options.
They aren't the customers, though, not even officially. If anyone's the customer of K-12 schools, it's the adults of society who believe the schools should exist, and should educate kids in a particular way (and who also pay for the schools' upkeep). That's why kids don't get to choose their curriculum, for example; adults decide what should be taught in schools. Kids aren't allowed to opt-out, either (they can be arrested for truancy if they try).
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Yeah, it used to be embarrassing to use anything but a mac in silicon valley and other tech circles. That seems to be changing now, I keep hearing people are not buying a mac for their next machine.

And when you see someone without a mac these days, the first assumption isn't that they lack style, it's that they are willing to compromise on another machine in order to not support Apple's patent warfare.
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Simple, yet amazing, insight, Zaid.

Think about health care, and nutrition, in my opinion the two biggest problem the world is facing. Innovation in those spaces can mean achieving the same at extremely low prices so every can have access to proper medecine, treatment, and food.
Probably the truth is that most Web 2.0 companies have a mixed bag but by the nature of their business and the startup ecosystem every web 2.0 company has to hype their business and consequently hype the talent they have.

Just about every startup will tell you they have A-players, rockstars, etc etc - its called marketing.
well, i like the simplicity of a very minimalistic approach. at the same time, i feel it will require a certain presentation to get enough people to sign up. not breaking a sweat with the developing here, this one is more about bringing on the right people. so i'll be investing more time on refining the message and pushing it out than developing the site. but i guess a google docs is just too much of a gamble to risk my first set of contacts to the feedback of 'google docs? seriously?' -- of course it's the easiest way to test the idea. i'm not talking pay a developer two grand to build this and we'll take a look afterwards. i'm taking very simple (hopefully not another bootstrap, but maybe) implementation with a database hookup and basic design. i was thinking a facebook page could help as well to test the idea, but again, too risky to burn contacts. no? curious to hear a counter statement here... thanks!
Is it so unreasonable for the FBI to want to be able to 'wiretap' a facebook conversation, with a warrant, as easily as they can do so to a traditional phone line?

This is not to say I approve of the idea of an insecure back door into my online behaviours, more that I wonder whether there is not at least some validity in their desire to replicate land line style monitoring for currently untraceable online communications.
Yep, back in the days when I was involved with a PC assembly company, the Intel Inside marketing programme had financial benefits for those who put the stickers on their machines.
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I've been reading more blogs on how people are upset or confused by Amazon's economics. I'm not necessarily taking an opinion either way but it is important to realize that Amazon is commoditizing every product they can to increase their complementary product: the market itself.
I think too many people think internet is enough. Like facebookers who post a picture of a starving kid and then blame Suckerberg for not doing anything.

I think if you host events around areas where home brewing is really popular and sort of in the eye of the public, like a park or what not and invite cops or firefighters to get them come down you could get a lot of people to come. Plan it on a weekend or a holiday. Organize it like a potluck or something similar. But center it around home brewers exchanging ideas and flavors.

I think you could get quite a bit to come. Cops and firefighters have a real close knit bond, I'm sure they would get their buddies to come. Then you can pitch your ideas to people who care enough for others to taste their art or at least interested in hearing about other craftsmen's ideas.

Just my two cents.
yes yes yes, that! not necessarily focused on food as main scenario, but message-wise, that's the idea.

what was the feedback like, remember?
Yes I could add some thing like a permanent link creator.
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You have to cut Amazon some slack there. They have to deal with all kinds of stupid regulations that demand different compensations to copyright collectives whether e.g. Amazon.de sends a memory card to a visitor from Germany or Austria (or elsewhere) and the fact that they have merchants listed in their marketplaces from other countries than the marketplace itself (so the greedy copyright collectives from that other country demand their share) further complicates things.

As if the VAT regulations and translations for all products (and reviews and sometimes product info entered by users) and (former) price fixing on books for some countries weren't complicated enough already ...
You should add download links.
Clojure does not have these issues: when the macro is called, the symbols are already attributed with the full namespace qualification, and usage of quasi-quote inside of the macro definition will also apply namespace qualification to variables local to the definition of the macro; you have to go out of your way to break this. You should spend more time looking into it before claiming to people that it doesn't work correctly; you could easily have just said "that's a good question, we'll look into that after the talk" rather than telling the person that Clojure wasn't as good.
$10,000 per API call...
Oh, I misunderstood your post. You're lamenting that it wasn't done faster - which is true. I thought you were leveling a hacker-ish attack that it was a waste of effort and could have done faster and cheaper, and that the man shouldn't have wasted so many years on something that could have been done trivially. My bad.
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A download link would be sufficient.

Anyways, keep up the good work!
Hurrah. That's a big part of the entire premise.
I would say the reason Microsoft slumped was that they lost the main driver of their innovation, Bill Gates. While this article (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/chart-microsofts-performance-u...) is a bit old now it shows pretty clearly a difference in Microsoft's performance before and after Gates.

To me it's the same question that has to be answered for Apple. Will Apple post-Jobs, be able to keep performing? We'll find out in a couple of years, but it is possible that the issues with Apple Maps, Siri and iMessages are a sign of the pre and post Jobs eras. I contend that Apple would not have released any of these products in their 'beta' states if Jobs were still CEO. It is that type of sloppiness that could keep them from reaching $1 trillion and falling from grace.
I thought it was parody, myself, because the bottom half of that laptop looks exactly like a MacBook Air, down to the arrows, slot ordering, and specs, and yet not once does he mention the "elephant in the room" of how it compares to the MB-A.
Apple still has a reputation/image plenty good enough to attract good talent. I assume they just don't invest as much. Hardware and marketing is a much bigger part of their business.
Doing The Right Thing (tm) is always easy when looking from the outside in. In my experience, good developers write shitty code all the time, because the world is a messy place and quality comes at a price.

As an anecdote, I once worked on an application where we had to store passwords in plain text, because the password should also be used in a piece of hardware and to provision that hardware, we needed to send the password to said hardware. There's just no good and easy way to solve that and when you're constrained by real world limitations, sometimes you just have to accept a suboptimal solution.
But does it, actually? I think there's a much stronger effect in the opposite case when it's about an idea being or not being in people's consciousness. Warning people about risks is in many cases not very effective, e.g., drunk driving, smoking, unhealthy diets.
We have the opposite problem, our income from the associate program is growing at such a rate that we're becoming increasingly dependent on it (i.e. changes in their terms could have a huge impact on our company). Amazon is cornering many markets because other merchants have inferior websites and are often under (illegal) pressure from vendors to keep prices high (specifically in my country).
I am unclear on why you think that is an indication of desperation.

In contrast, Mozilla gets most of its income in an almost identical way (making google a default search provider) and that's not considered desperate.
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You're not a liberal, you're a leftist...a big difference. We've seen what your kind has done to humanity in the last century. Mao, Pol Pot, Stalin, Castro... You leftists are revolting to humanity.
I'm a big fan of Mynt (http://mynt.mirroredwhite.com/) - it's very simple and easy to understand, but is powerful enough to do just about anything you need.
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This is a very pessimistic view, because it doesn't allow for any process that could possibly change the state of affairs.

The fact is that one person armed with clear understanding of quality code can be the seed of change. Even under siege from bad data structures and opaque processes, it is possible for a programmer to carve out a small niche, to normalize (at least in his mind) the system he's been given to modify, and apply his knowledge correctly.

If he can execute projects quickly and relatively error-free, this programmer will do well in any organization, and he will probably be given a team of his own, and that team will probably be a good one, and the codebase will continue to change slowly, organically.

If the programmer leaves, then the bad code will grow again. That is the nature of life!

In any event, I just want to emphasize that there is great value in understanding and doing good work, even if (perhaps especially if) the constraints you're working under don't encourage it. YOU are the seed of change.
I like the idea. I imagine it may have some similarities with "vayable/gidsy" those kind of local-travel experiences startups?
What would your job ad say if it was designed to solicit applications from 20 to 22 year old males willing to work long hours for peanuts?

"Come be a frankly mediocre programmer writing pedestrian code to solve unimportant problems"?

A job, like any other product, has to be sold. Beer ads don't say "makes you stupid and fat; occasionally ruins lives; it's going to kill some of you; no, really, you will not have beautiful women drape themselves over you, that virtually never to men sitting at home playing Xbox and drinking beer does not make it substantially more likely." For a reason. Similarly, there's the intimation of a cultural/status/etc component to the product offering for working as an engineer at one of these places. (n.b. Not unique to working at them, incidentally. i-bankers, Japanese salarymen, nurses, and PhD candidates in English all get a sales pitch -- in no case is it totally 100% representative of the actual job because, hey, sales pitch.)
The shortsighted aspect of this is that our government wants to order businesses to become spy-friendly to foreign governments that have a track record of stealing economic, industrial, and scientific data. Foreign governments will model their laws after ours, and specify the same interfaces.
I live in paris.. why on earth would I want to take time out of my day, to go meet some random tourist out of the MILLIONS who come every year?
Most 'X' as a service concepts have a point where doing it yourself is the more cost efficient option. Backup is no exception to that rule. A service like this works best when you have a manageable amount of very precious data. If you have mountains of low grade data then likely you're better off rolling your own.

After all, since tarsnap is a very nice layer on top of S3 there is always at least one competitor cheaper for bulk back-up (amazon) and even they charge a substantial amount of money for storage and bandwidth.

Costs vs benefits. It's never been different and it never will be.
Offering a lower price can definitely stem from having a new innovative manufacturing technique or business model which would certainly give the innovator a huge advantage.

Apple's iPad is a great example where they got the cost of making a tablet (though arguably were the first real tablet) to an incredibly low price and have delivered the best and cheapest product on the market at the time. That said, look at Amazon's Kindle which is radically cheaper now a few years later. I suspect not many people would buy it over the iPad if it weren't so cheap. That's a great advantage for Amazon for selling but I think it says a lot about Apple that it can charge such a premium for its product that really anyone else should be able to make from the same core components.

I was really struck by this phenomena when I asked the day of the iPhone 5 announcement if a co-founder (who isn't an apple fan boy) if he was going to buy the new iphone. He said yes. I asked if he had seen the price yet or read all the new specs. He replied no. How many companies can convince you to buy a product you haven't tried or heard the price for? I doubt anyone would say the same thing of Samsung or Amazon products. Apple definitely puts out the best product and experience if you measure it from that perspective.
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Obviously there are different kinds of trust. I trust restaurant employees not to poison my food, but that doesn't mean I trust them with my SS number, bank account, and the details of my personal life. Pre 12.04, if Canonical wanted access to the personal information of their users, it would have involved putting in a backdoor that would be 1)detectable by all Ubuntu users 2)illegal under most spyware laws and 3)cause an extremely large backlash and wide mistrust of Canonical. So I 'trusted' Canonical not to engage in widespread criminal hacking which would have severe legal and social consequences. These consequences now seem removed: 1)There's no way to know if they are misusing the information that is now passed through their servers, barring someone on their end leaking something. 2)They don't appear to have made a legally binding promise about what they are actually doing with the data. Even if they did, the legal consequence of breaking it may be ambiguous. Just because I _did_ trust Canonical doesn't mean I trust them forever. Canonical's method of dumping an obviously intrusive function on users and then issuing a smarmy response that downplays genuine concerns shows that they are missing the social intelligence that would be required to even properly understand issues of privacy invasion, and I'm certainly looking to migrate elsewhere.
I won't echo everyone else's privacy concerns, though I agree wholeheartedly. But does anyone else think it's ironic that the FBI's internal policy is named the "National Electronic Surveillance Strategy"? That's abbreviated NESS and has to be an homage to one of the FBI's more controversial lawmen.

Ness started his career trying to enforce prohibition ... 80 years later our privacy is being prohibited.
Really, your desired point on the price/performance tradeoff depends on the specific circumstances of your business.

(a) Being able to compete on price means you have to be really hard-nosed about optimizing every part of your operations to stay lean. Good relationships with suppliers and competent execution of your strategy are paramount -- think Walmart.

(b) Competing on product means you have to be able to blow away your competition. It's easier the smaller your niche is. It's often about having a talented designer -- Steve Jobs, Shigeru Miyamoto, Notch -- together with a support team.

A lot of software is easier to compete on product, because (1) the zero-marginal-cost structure of the industry means that competing on price is a race to the bottom that will ultimately be won by open source, and (2) a lot of software is specialized.

Companies that win in (a) tend to be driven by business types who are good at the stuff they teach in MBA school. Companies that win in (b) tend to be driven by creative types and have a culture where the creatives' vision is the core competency, and the business side is seen as more of a support role. The good news for bootstrap-stage startups is, if you're in category (b), your business chops don't matter as much; the product can make up for a lot, if it's good enough.

So if your team is thin on business talent but has a ton of technical talent, you should use strategy (b). The reverse should use strategy (a) in theory, but in practice is rare among startups; business types who are good at what they do tend to pull down very good compensation, and mostly hang around companies that can afford it. Of course, if you're in YC or funded, you may have access to business-knowledgeable people; but getting to that point usually means you already have a great product and a lot of technical talent.
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VAT and sales tax is something that kills businesses. It is a tax specifically designed to be punitive and it is a major stumbling block in growing a business.
"Could i FOIA FDA on hundreds of clinical studies of well known drugs and publish them online?"

Absolutely, but you would need to pay their costs, which could be several thousand dollars per drug and several million dollars overall. At some level though you probably would need to go to court to win. And even if you were successful, no one would believe you anyway. Books like Goldacre's or reports like this are published all the time, well-researched and true, but they're no match for the billions of propaganda dollars spent by the medical industry and big pharma each year, and the complete ownership of the media, congress, medical education, hospitals, and the FDA.
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Yes, it is really so strange. Or actually, it is really so brain-dead.

I am working on a search utility at this moment.

The first thing you want to do is figure what you're doing and adjust to your user's style rather than forcing them to adjust to your application's ideas. That is one key to a "it just works" application. Anything else is more-or-less stuck in the nineties.
can i ask what you do for a living? i'm really curious, i assume tech-focused, student or full-time working? would there be any type of person on earth (probably from the tech community) you'd be happy to meet for an hour (and probably pay you lunch) or so when they come to paris for few days? what type of person would that be? totally understand if you are not interested in meeting strange foreigners, you're french after all ... HA :) no please, i'm from austria, i wish I could live in paris and speak french, i'm not kidding. i envy you and everyone else in that city everytime i visit.