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Yeah, they changed it. I won't quote the original here since it was probably just overenthusiasm and these guys have every right to be excited.
Re: "choice was between firing his trusted..."

Option 1: fire him (good PR), 2: Fire him and fire the guy who hired him (overkill PR stunt), 3: keep both (bad PR)
D is now opensource
here is the post from D.announce by Walter Bright:

dsimcha wrote:
> Purely out of curiosity, with regard to the DMD source, what changed that all of the sudden caused you to release the full source?

I've been intending to for a while, it took a while for me to clean it up, check all the licenses, and get it into a presentable form.

Essentially, it's pretty obvious that the world has changed, and closed source is no longer acceptable for a mainstream product that people will be relying on. Open source is the future, and it's past time for dmd to join the party!
But that was in 2007.
The important thing being that you can ask it new and novel questions.
it sounds in fact something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_ratiocinator as interpreted in The Baroque Cycle
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I just assumed the author decided to say something so ridiculous that nobody would try to question whether it makes sense or not.
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Earthquakes are a great example. If I feel an earthquake, I might visit a site like that to get the scientific facts about the epicenter and magnitude of the earthquake.

However, there is a totally different kind of value to Twitter posts: instead of data, I'm getting firsthand accounts of who felt it, where, what they were doing at the time, and what effect it had on their life. Yes, this information is (obviously) anecdotal, but its also interesting, informative and immediate.
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It was an analogy, the author was not suggesting git would be an OS.
Agreed, a website with low recurring expenses and high volume of quality traffic can probably survive just on advertising.

The problem with advertising-only models IMHO is that ultimately survival of the company depends on other companies' advertising budgets instead of the value it's products provide to their end users. At the moment that situation does not seem ideal.
I think this is where a service such as Zinch can shine. It gives the colleges a great opportunity to market themselves and the students to do the same.
I guess I would put it this way: The growth of societies needs and wants have far outpaced the capacity to deliver those. Not from a physical resource capacity but from an intellectual one. Combine this with the greed that is part of human nature, these large spikes and collapses will be common place until a new social-economic model is created. One that is a steady state model, which allows for the obsolesce of the antiqued without punishment.
From the Inc. article I read he really believes in the saying "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

He doesn't know how a design change will effect the users or how changing the badly-cropped user images will effect click-throughs etc.
Although from looking at the diagram he was referring to it looks pretty straight forward. Split up each type of asset into a separate LLC, all of them owned by a parent LLC that is controlled by a trust. (House is separate since it's more of a liability, the author still owed money on it and there is always a risk someone will trip and fall on your property). Nothing about this setup looks at all unusual or suspicious to me. So I'm either missing something obvious or I need to get in the business of hiding other people's assets.
I define "hacker culture" as when even if things don't "just work," you keep at it until they do (often using creative means).

I disagree with respect to modifying software/devices. Most computer users (even young ones) will only modify software if it is convenient and if what they do "just works."

If you expand the definition of "hacking" away from computers -- then yes, I do believe that every person is a "hacker" in some aspect(s) of their life!
Obviously, this is a poor example. It was a magnitude 3.1, so no one felt it, and it was 100 miles north of San Francisco.

The last one anybody felt was on Feb 21st at 11:01 AM, and the first (non-automated) tweet was at 11:21 AM (http://twitter.com/indiaknight/statuses/1234962301). This example is similarly bad, since it didn't really affect anyone in a big way. However, for instant reactions to notable events, Twitter can't be beat. If today's earthquake had been "the big one," you can bet twitter would have been flooded with information, missing people reports, locations for aid, firsthand accounts and so on.
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"The problem with advertising-only models IMHO is that ultimately survival of the company depends on other companies' advertising budgets instead of the value it's products provide to their end users. At the moment that situation does not seem ideal."

Um, depending on users paying you is equally problematic. I imagine this moment isn't good for that either.
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Twitter: "a marketing channel for announcements and customer service in case someone wanted to contact me that way."

... "I have to admit I still don’t “get” Friendfeed yet"

Friend, feed, not marketing. How hard is that? Many of us keep moving on to what looks like the next big thing because the last big thing has been polluted by people using it for marketing, when all we really want is a way to talk to friends (although in a weird, public, narcissistic way).
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"Doomsayers were worried about something they called the "greenhouse effect." They said if we didn't reduce our carbon emissions soon, the world would heat up and we would have an ecological catastrophe."

Ice age was the preferred senario of the Doomday crowd back then.

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/newsweeks-1975-article-ab...

My grandfather subscribed to Reader's Digest and kept every one of them, in a tall neat stack that reached to the ceiling next to the toilet. There were more from as far back as the 50's in a little cubby hole between the toilet and bathtub. We lived with him for a year in the 80's, and I read a huge number of those; I was convinced the return of the ice caps was imminent, and quite excited about the prospect.

I read quite a bit about the nuclear winter debate, and nothing in the popular press about warming until the 90s. I know from what I have read that papers on warming were published as early as the 40s, but in the popular immagination, cooling was expected, and any human effects would be catastrophic cooling from a nuclear exchange.
that's an intelligence test. you failed. :-)
yeah, you guys are right - I probably should have said "YC inspired" instead of "YC in Atlanta". my bad.
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My gut impression is that this is a good program for recent graduates near Atlanta, but I think that enrollment in this program is good in the same way that attending a regional community college is good. It's real, but it's obviously a compromise.

Also, "hyper-excited" tone and over-selling of basic web functionality (e.g. strategic web content management == WCM?) makes me suspicious. Starting a start up ---especially with little experience almost no capital--- seems extremely stressful and demands an extreme focus on reality. This cheerleading marketing may work well for corporate sales, but I fear that it will be a toxic distraction to start ups interested in <$20,000 capital in Atlanta.

I predict a high throughput of web media and software consulting companies from this fund...
I've used our bookmarklet which sets the price at $0.25 http://tipjoy.com/bookmarklet

You'll find even if you use it a lot (3 times daily?), you won't get that much over $10 or $20 a month.

But I do agree such a setup would be pretty cool. We're building out some other tools, but this is a good idea, if done right.
Ask HN: Do users know what they want & how do you test?
It's a continuing theme and I can't seem to get the debate out of my head. Everyone seems to think that users/customers do not know what they want, but let's spin things around. It's easy for me to suggest that users can identify what they do not want. So given the right questions, the proper mechanisms, I tend to believe that users will express their desires.

So I wonder how you can best frame tests and questions rather than guess what users want.
That may be but I'd ask you to look at the founders of the fund. It isn't like they've accomplished just a little. Well, maybe I've accomplished just a little. The other eight guys, pretty impressive.
Hardly a story, and I think we all knew this...
In my opinion, a university education should only be about intellectual curiosity with the greatest research minds. If you are only interested in the practical aspects of programming, I don't think that a university fits your needs.

To extend this thought, I also believe that someone majoring in any field--from English to art history--should be able to become professional programmers. I feel that industry is trying to make universities technical schools, when they have an academic focus.

That is not to say that I don't agree with some of the previous posters. We do need more training centers for people with practical inclinations.

I feel that the problem with this whole system is that people are automatically expected to go to university if they did well in high school. If not they will violate a social norm, and shame their parents. There should be practical schooling options for students that are also hard and prestigious.
Git is great and it blew and expanded my mind.

But I have some questions for the the experts. Is git really a fantastic achievement, or is the praise for git coming from people who are not experts in source control (+)?

Based on my cursory readings, it appears that the concepts Git uses (dag, everything is a node, tree snapshotting etc) existed in Bitkeeper.

(+): I ask this because I've repeatedly found that what looks like a big conceptual leap to outsiders is actually a gradual evolution. Examples: I first thought RISC was a big leap, but on reading up the technical papers later, I realized that it was made of lots of innovations by lots of people.
I like daily show as much as the next guy...hell I never miss an episode...but this isn't really HN related
As someone interested in getting into the angel game, these were my takeaways from the session:

1) deal flow: shmooze with the existing big players and eventually they may let you in on a deal. Don't try to do a deal alone. Eventually if you have some kind of specialty, deal flow may come to you.

2) plan to invest in at least 3 (preferably 12) startups, otherwise you are just buying a lottery ticket
I hope you read any article on Hacker News before upvoting it.

More than that I hope you read the comments too, because if you aren't an expert that might be one here who can help debunk snake oil before you upvote.

I've been caught a few times reading a story, upvoting it, and then finding a well written comment a moment later about what total tosh it is.
When I talk to new "university" programmers, they can write a heap sort from memory, they can explain complicated algorithms they've memorized...

If that's actually the case he should be hiring those people because most interviewees can't even do those things.
So what exactly can be done with a system like this? What types of problems does it solve?
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Simplicity: Each purchase represents a discrete function users require in a package that doesn't have a steep learning curve.

Value: Customers are leveraging the wisdom of crowds (aka popularity) to help them choose an application (aka functionality) via Apple's App Store.

Barrier to Entry: The implementation promotion game includes the developer application process and cost, and the price point of the application.

Not-Quite-Open Platform: at&t and international cellular providers' customers aren't limited by enterprise inefficiencies or by the device manufacturers; customers can upgrade their iPhone with ease.

Leveraging Free Software: Apple is leveraging a customized version of BSD with a GUI brand/standard optimized for a single device (assuming cellular data technology is just a feature) instead of a product line.

Operational Excellence: Apple is easing into the mobile market instead of throwing a bunch of devices at customers and seeing what sticks; that's expensive.

Good Luck and The Global Economy: The iPhone was an investment during good times; customers are saving money and not looking to upgrade right now.

Ecosystem: Customers are building systems that compete with the established software companies and service providers in each vertical by blending mobility with simplicity. Oh, and the Apple iPhone experience is good with the PC... it is better with a Mac.
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This is more of a matter of coming to terms with facts and/or arguments. Often times people will form (knowingly) form opinions without having the data necessary to draw any sort of conclusion.

What is being demonstrated here is the willingness for people to override their intuitions with facts or arguments. When they educate themselves, the original intuitions are forgone and overwritten with conclusions extrapolated from new data because their first opinions never had any structural (logical, rational) foundation to begin with.

So to clarify, it's not so much that opinions are changing, because their innate feelings on the subject likely don't change dramatically. It's the arguments and facts presented to frame the situation in a way that has been adapted to their ideals.
It seems to be the truth
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It'll be interesting to see if this goes anywhere. I believe information should be free, of course, but the law doesn't agree with me. The argument used in the TPB trial for why TPB is guilty and Google isn't is that Google cooperates with the rights holders. It seems like Craigslist could be doing a lot more to stop the use of Craigslist for prostitution: improving the quality of listings with a $5 fee in the erotic service section is just improving the customer's experience.

Another source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-craigslist-laws...
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I think your hypothesis is correct, but that doesn't make Git any less of an achievement. Certainly it is the product of technologies that existed, but it is the manner in which Git packages those features that is innovative. Indeed, much of the brilliance of Git is how _simple_ it is conceptually compared to other systems--it is the concepts that Git leaves out, not what it uses, that count.
It's good to know Google is reasonable about this, but you should consider that the overwhelming majority of possession arrests/convictions are misdemeanors. But the ONDCP had a breakdown (from several years ago) of felony convictions for possession; over 130,000. Companies are probably less tolerant of felonies.
Users express what they want, sure. But it's up to the developer to gather users' wants and analyze them to search for the reasoning behind the wants.

That's the closest I've been able to come to learning what users want -- they often can't articulate it well enough.

Conversations go like this:

Them: "I want feature X."
Me: "Why do you want feature X?"
Them: "Because... uh... I can't do _____."

They want feature X because they can't perform action Y.

Users know what they want, but it's more interesting, and often our task, to discover why they want it.
Breathtaking UI design. Seriously impressed at how polished and smooth everything seems to be.
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Yeah, I think both of you are right. Its part that there are scammers out there who use gambits and deception, and there's also due dillgence by yourself that must be done.

I need to mention that as far as a track record goes, a lot of the people that have wronged me in the past are extremely wealthy now or quickly getting there. Many have networks of friends that they don't scam, and that will readily vouch for them. The worst is if they do become extremely successful, and decide to be "serial entrepreneurs", the path they knew to previous success was the only path they know, and thus are more than ready to run gambits again. That's all they know. Therefore, a track record or "references" doesn't mean much.
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One thing that's permanently changed the way I answer the question "what do people want" is this video, about how one man discovered that people are segmented, and they won't tell you what they want:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/malcolm_gladwell_on_spagh...

What you should end up taking away from it is that there is no "perfect" thing you can offer, but rather several different types that appeal to different segments of the population. And these segments won't come out and say: "I want ____!!" Using the video's example, when asked what type of coffee people want, nearly everyone would say "dark rich hearty blend" (or something to that affect). But what they actually prefer is "milky wheat" coffee. This wasn't really known until taste tests were done asking people to rate their satisfaction.. and it turns out there is a strong correlation into these segments.

Granted, this is all based on food products, but it applies to the web as well. Jacob Nielson discovered years ago that people are divided into major groups of searchers and browsers, for finding content. I bet that there are tons of other segmentations for user interface type things that I just don't know about (it's not my specialty), as well as expectations for features. For instance, maybe your users would actually prefer it if your links were bold, underlined, and blue, and that when you hovered the underline goes away and it turns a lighter color. Or maybe they'd actually like some sort of RSS feature (that didn't require them to know what RSS was). But they probably won't ask for it.

I don't understand your logic... users know what they don't want... add in some magic.. and suddenly they will express their desires? If that magic is the process of deduction, good luck trying every permutation, and seeing if users don't complain.

I think A/B testing works best to decide between two implementations. And I think tossing in a new feature and asking: "do you like this" works just as well.
The fact that customers don't know what they want is only an obstacle if our goal is to find out what they think they want. Luckily, our goal is usually to find out what they actually want, which requires some combination of listening, experimenting, and learning.

http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/search/label/liste...
Quote: We were selling 'cool' and riding on hope; never really figured out how we will make money out of it.

Oof!

Can't run a start-up part time: have to give it everything you've got.

I think this is largely a result of, and I mean this in the nicest possible way, a Silicon Valley cultural pathology that says that you're not really working unless you're working until 4 AM in the morning.

I have never had an interpreter throw an InsufficientlyDedicatedToTheProjectException. You are probably not in a business which has radical changes on a week to week basis. Why assume that pace is normative?
Yeah, I'm finding gedit with a textmate-like dark theme is a better Textmate than Textmate!
Security fixes are probably not included. But a security fix isn't usually going to be the sort of thing that slows down a benchmark anyways.
This is pretty interesting, but it's been done before:
http://www.boffswana.com/news/?p=392

Anyone else see find humor in having people waste paper in the name of Eco-Friendliness?
The paper is accessible at http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1625
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If you dig further into the market research, though, you'll find that the majority of those are 40-something housewives in middle America. Basically the same population who watches daytime soap operas. Actually, I suspect the Internet casual game marketplace will kill the soap opera.

So no, there are not a bunch of cute girls on casual gaming sites. Most of the cute girls seem to be on TV fansites of shows popular with teens and 20-somethings.
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I'm sure they had good reasons. But we're marching on.
Are people really that stupid?

Have you been living in a cave for all of humanity's history?
So Git is something that should be built into your OS? Yeah, no shit, that's why Squeak has fine-grained version control built-in, and weren't there operating systems that had version-controlled file-systems?
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What do you think makes a good programmer? Knowing lots of programming languages, efficiency, etc...
I do hope they improve the color scheme and the "computational knowledge search engine" tag line.
There really are some of those: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=247104
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"Try to avoid even noticing the score. (Maybe scores could even be occluded, like spoiler-text?)"

Hiding scores until after voting would be a cool HN experiment.
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