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Because it's kind of realistic. It is embellished a bit, of course, but it's true that programmers do not respond well to traditional management techniques, most especially when someone with no business whatsoever making technical calls presumes to do so (i.e. every business major who wants to feel important).

Programmers and businessmen have a difficult time understanding each other, is basically the crux of it. As a programmer and a businessman, I have to say I still have difficulty understanding most businessmen, and do not respect MBA degrees (not necessarily their holders).
unlikely. Since you've been around for quite some time, as you claim, you'll know that what they are looking for is not just the idea, but also evidence that you would be able to lead it into fruition, whether by coding it up or by figuring out how to get your users.
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Firefox might be ahead, but Google is putting a lot of effort into it too as you can see in that chart.

It isn't "here" as in all here, but parts of it are, and more are added all the time. My point was that just like HTML5, it's a gradual thing, at least for Firefox and Chrome - it's possible other browsers will hold off, as you say, although I hope not.
Increasing responsibility is only one facet of aging. Others include lower energy levels and reserves, health issues, and general need to take more care with the body (e.g. need a comfortable bed, otherwise will be stiff and swollen for many hours in the morning). These often lead to higher monetary expenditures, reserves, or insurance requirements.
find hot local cats in your area. so tempting.
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I don't know about linux (and I really should in this case as it's my 'field'), but at least on mac, you can restrict the number of child processes a process can spawn with `ulimit -u`:

zooey:~ duane$ ulimit -u
709
Note that T-Mobile does deep packet inspection via transparent HTTP proxy on web traffic going through their network, especially if you use a prepaid device. You should read the OONI report [1] (from the Tor Project) on T-Mobile USA.

[1] https://ooni.torproject.org/reports/2012/T-Mobile_USA_WebGua...
Remote management works in some scenarios, but needs commitment from both the team and the manager to make it work. Additionally, the goals should be clearly defined and communicated, so that there are no surprises.

It is hard to make it work, but is very beneficial and can be a competitive advantage when you get it right. Hey, you can now hire top talent regardless of geographical boundaries!
I'll assume your comedy detector is mis-calibrated, I have a hard time thinking someone could post here about the "tiresome whining of their servants" in anything but a joking manner.
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To you cons = convicts, to the rest of the cons is a command line tool, which arguably is closer to the "HN" standard (whatever the fuck that means) than yours.

I find it rude that you would choose to use such an irrelevant definition of "cons" on HN given the general subject matter of this forum.

Just kidding - who gives a shit? The extra 0.5 seconds it took to parse the contextual meaning of an acronym I am not going to sweat, and I am certainly not going to call someone rude for daring to use a subculture-specific word in a way I would not normally.
Three. Luckily only one (ARM) survived by the 2002 release.
If you have an accounting background, leverage it - work out really solid financial projections for 3 different levels of revenue, research startup costs and budget for contingencies, and generally use your professional knowledge to create a set of bulletproof financials. On the design side, install the demo of Balsmiq Mockups and come up with some experimental designs for your app - even if you don't end up using them, they'll help you focus on the mechanics of which information you need to gather. You can certainly apply to YC and they do sometimes take solo founders, but I think there's a bias towards applicants with tech folks already involved, for obvious reasons (PG being a programmer, above all else).

With a solid business plan, consider asking on here for someone to help you hack the tourism industry and have some meetings with people here. If you have a comprehensive specification, a robust business plan, and flexibility to modify your ideas in response to other suggestions and emerging circumstances, I think you have a strong chance of finding a technical co-founder who's willing to match your sweat equity on getting a prototype or even a basic production version going on an equal share basis. Lots of programmers hate the business administration side so they'll be glad to work with someone who's watching that while they focus on functionality.

Good luck!
I think the technical term for what Rob Rhinehart has is "eating disorder". He will get sick eventually, as all people who do stuff like this do, and if he's lucky, the damage he is doing to his health will be reversible because he's young.
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This is a very nice breakdown:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/understanding-bash-fork-bomb/
I am calling for the biggest shitstorm in the existence of the Internet. Anonymous, where are you? :D
Eh, no. I would take a bath, put on some nicer clothes, and set out to find girl 101.

while single:
mingle()
38K people just raised $2MM in 12 hours after waiting literally years for one of their favorite series to come back in some form.

There's a difference between exploiting this pent up demand in a one-off, and trying to fund a long-term regular series at that kind of cost.

You might be able to get $10MM to produce said Harry Potter show, but I don't think the support base is there to repeat it week over week over week.

At a lower budget level, definitely.
I've always enjoyed that one, especially this part:

"One can cure oneself of the not un- formation by memorizing this sentence: A not unblack dog was chasing a not unsmall rabbit across a not ungreen field."

It's hilarious, even though I have since decided I don't agree with "curing" the not un- formation.

FWIW, my position is that the difference between strict opposite and negation in English means that there is often a subtlety of meaning accurately expressed with a "not un-". It's essentially the English language equivalent of needing ways to express less than, greater than, less than or equal to, and greater than or equal to. I know Orwell was criticising people who misuse it, but he beats his fists a bit too hard for my liking in that essay. Related, I get annoyed when people aggressively attack "I don't disagree" with "then just say I AGREE!". The phrase "I don't disagree" is useful to convey "I might agree, I don't know whether I agree, I don't have an opinion, I agree with some of it and disagree with small details, any or all of these or more, but I'm certainly not disagreeing with you outright at this moment". In a lot of arguments these opinions fail spectacularly, since for the most part a combination of aggression, loudness, and a veneer of logical reasoning tends to win out over uncertainty and an attempt to consider all cases.
So you are saying that I should be working on to convince incubators how my website would sustain its user base or why would someone sign up to my web application?
I like this one:

* The patterns in .gitignore and .gitattributes files can have **/,
as a pattern that matches 0 or more levels of subdirectory.
E.g. "foo/**/bar" matches "bar" in "foo" itself or in a
subdirectory of "foo".

And this one:
"git check-ignore" command to help debugging .gitignore files has
been added.
What "constant stream of propaganda?" I've never seen a movie that tells me to think of copyright violation as "theft." Indeed, the standard "FBI copyright warning" at the beginning of movies calls it infringement.
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I have several.

I was talking about the 99.999% of the human race that doesn't frequent HN. If they buy a domain name with email when Google announces that GMail is sunsetting, it's already too late. Old/casual acquaintances, friends of friends, etc. will only have their gmail.com address.
You have to pick your battles. You can't reinvent hollywood overnight, but you can make incremental changes bit by bit. Sending a strong signal that fans will flock to smart TV shows helps if it gets more shows of that caliber made, even if the slimebags in hollywood profit from that too. And it also gives a signal to the legitimate indie creators out there that there's money available for people who can make shows that engage their fans strongly.
For those who wonder how to build a Todo app in different javascript frameworks, you should definitely check out TodoMVC: http://addyosmani.github.com/todomvc/
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> Pushing their agenda: "You wouldn't download a car"?

I'm not sure I've ever seen one of these in a movie or DVD. I sure as hell saw the "kill SOPA" stuff Wikipedia, Google, etc, put up while I was trying to user their service for something else.
Its very bad day for rss lover....
I don't see why this has to be perfect. I know a lot of people who live off of potato chips, cookies, and soda. Surely this diet would be better than that.
Which is precisely how it should be. Technology is for the use and convenience of the masses--it's not a vector for political minorities to spread their ideological viewpoints. My mom doesn't need to listen to Vint Cerf's politics to use the TCP/IP to trade pictures of my kid with my wife's mom.
Nice documentation! Hadn't seen docco before; pretty neat doc generator. http://jashkenas.github.com/docco/
Why CTOs shouldn’t write code at work
Here's the long answer to your question:
http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/ramcloud-reco...
Urban Dictionary in JSON? Nope just the page source
I still use it :)
Why? Europeans, Japanese, Koreans etc would also find $25 perfectly viable.
I think we can all agree that cons is a function for building lists.
I surely hope so. It was such a derivation from the topic at hand (rags to riches vs. complaining servants) that, if it was satire or irony, I don't get what the joke or lesson was supposed to be.

Edit: Perhaps the lesson it that they are tired of reading hard work your way to fortune stories? That does make sense, I was probably wrong in my comment above.
wow, thank you soo much for your answer!!

I just checked out Balsmiq Mockups, this is brilliant.
tl;dr:

* You can often get things done faster by doing a half-assed job.

* Robots have not advanced far enough to wash dishes yet.
Personally I don't see why this resonates so much with the HN community.

Really? This is like a nerd mantra, it hits so many stereotypes in so few words. Orson talked about it at BayCon once when it came up.

I don't have a clear memory of exactly what he said but I took away from it that smart, introverted, people have a terrible time seeing anything outside their pool of influence, like looking at your shoes in a crowd and saying "everyone is crowding around me because I'm the coolest" when if you looked up you would see a pack of wolves circling the crowd. So all of their evaluation in their environment is about them and how people around them are responding.

An artifact of that inward looking view is to construct an internally consistent explanation for why things suck now but didn't before. That always targets people who are not like them (the introvert) and for whom the introvert cannot understand their motivations or values. (and more often than not in a software company that is "suits", aka business people or managers)

You combine that with a changing market place, and the thing that made the software successful before isn't valid any more, but if the programmers don't know why the software was successful in the first place they can't understand what changed or how to fix it. Imagine an artist who paints with charcoal, gets discovered, people buy their works, and then fashion moves on, and the artist goes broke. To an external viewer, fashion simply moved on, the artist was there (and fashionable for a time) and then they weren't. But internally the artist may have no concept of how briefly they were fashionable and now they weren't. Instead they construct an externalization of "discovery" where suddenly people begin to understand what it is they are doing with their art, and when they move on it is always some external force which has corrupted the minds of people seeing it or modified their vision. To accept the alternative, that their success was luck and fashion, rather than some deeper meaning, may be too harsh to think.

People cling to sense of destiny and purpose rather than consider themselves the random connection of ova and zygote and circumstance. Where is the meaning in that?

Orson captured this tension wonderfully in his essay, it resonates both with the bees who desperately want to be special and with the bee keepers who want productive bees without understanding that the bee's production is a byproduct of flowers and normal bee activity, it's a side effect of where the hive is and where the flowers are. Many software companies are fashion objects, successful ones are constantly producing new concepts and new ideas to stay in the limelight. Unsuccessful ones take a single success and assume they are done, nothing left to do but iterate. But fashion doesn't work like that.
Interesting. And what would you estimate is the time loss of that 0.5 seconds multiplied by 5x per day translates to in a year?

I suppose this is a bit of the curmudgeonly attitude I fear I am acquiring (i.e. get off my lawn), but I do take offense to people mangling the language and the lingo (like talking about a blog rather than a blog post, which seems to be on the rise).

As a rather poor typist, among people I perceive to be great typists, this bothers me. Perhaps I was just looking for other curmudgeons or pedants to show me how they deal with this issue. I also try to proofread my comments, and I appreciate the same.

P.S. I also do not understand, "to the rest of the cons is a command line tool."

[Edit to clarify:
I estimate I spend 1 hour and half on this type of thing per year on HN; normally, I just downvote, and move on. I just found out ITMS == if that makes sense. I thought it was Itunes Music Store.

Instead of mentioning Vim, I should have said most people on HN appear to be able to treat the keyboard as an extension of their body. I cannot, maybe I'm abit jealous there, but if typing is so simple why save a few keystrokes at the risk of confusing those with whom you wish to communicate?

I did preface my comment with an admission that it was both pedantic and off-topic (on an original post from variety.com concerning a topic with which I'm completely unfamiliar).]
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Can someone here point to a good article (or a couple of articles, for that matter) explaining the history of Python packaging and the "new way of doing things"?
Lack of a sex-crazed mentor aside, I'd like to go on record to say that this was the most enjoyable 5 minutes I have ever spent on linkedin.
Landing page says nothing about the product. How about some information before forcing people to log in?
No kidding.

Compared to my clients that choose Exchange-friendly services like Office 365, the clients on Google Apps (paid or not) have been feeling a world of pain since the Office 2013 upgrade. I remember reading a post on some official Google blog late last year talking about how they were going to aggressively target and steal Microsoft's purchase in the enterprise. In reality, they're struggling horribly to even retain the customers they've coaxed over, in my experience. Whether they like it or not, ActiveSync is the most pervasive protocol for syncing mail, calendars, and contacts across a wide range of devices. It's a travesty that they're choosing a holy war against Microsoft instead of supporting what would serve their users best.
I use page2rss.com for this.
As a small aside, I often upvote the HN submission if the discussions are valuable -- independent of the actual linked content.
The Kickstarter page notes that some rewards require additional paperwork (presumably including becoming a member of SAG for the speaking role). Since only one (1) person claimed that reward, it seems reasonable that they could get them into SAG.

Also, Bell may have just made a typo re: capital letters. If you are expecting perfect grammer from the internet, you'll cry yourself to sleep every night.
>To you cons = convicts, to the rest of the cons is a command line tool, which arguably is closer to the "HN" standard (whatever the fuck that means) than yours.

While I agree with the spirit of your answer, a command line tool? Really?

If anything would be more aligned to the "HN standard", it would be the Lisp "cons" (functions / cells).
Indian software firms facing double-digit attrition rates due to startups
This is what you need to be working on:

1) Assume that the website is designed and coded, and is available for someone to get to via www.yourtravelwebsite.com

2) Now what? You now have a new website amongst billions of others. How are you going to get the first 100 people to use your website? Are you going to spam them? Are you going to beg your friends? Do you have a lot of traveler friends that indicate that this is something that they would use (and really use, not just because they are friends with you)? Do you understand where current travelers hang out to do their research? Do you understand how you are going to convince them to switch? Are you going to just leave links on forums? Are you going to be making deals with other travel agencies? If so, what is it that you have to offer them - why would they say yes? How would you even find travel agencies that are interested - would you just march into their office unanncounced?

I could go on and on, but you get the idea - the "create a website" part to you seems very challenging, as it should be. But, I have created many, many websites for my small "business ideas", and I have completely failed in the "get other people to actually use this thing that I created" department. So, that by far is your biggest blindspot, and it's the biggest because it will only appear after you would have invested many hours and/or many dollars into making the website.
I was replying to the remark: "It's even more impressive when you consider that this is effectively U.S. only"

For a show with a 3M fan base, of which I would guess most are US based, its not hard to imagine that a few percent of those viewers (or their parents) would chip in $25
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> What's up with Bell? She doesn't seem to understand the concept of Capital Letters aNd WHerE thEy bELONG In A Sentence. Or she's just being coy.

Good question, actually. The only actual weird capitalization she used, "LoVe to you ALL", is actually an in-joke-- "LoVe" refers to Logan/Veronica shipping[0] in Veronica Mars fandom. She's maybe hinting at a possible romantic plot to the movie, maybe just playing around.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping_(fandom)
Not to mention tax-free benefits like healthcare, etc.
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Hmm. I personally have needed to use Google Code Search several times since it shut down, but have never found your site. When I've looked for alternatives by searching Google (say, for "code search"), I've found Koders (now Ohloh code search), but not yours. It seems like you might need to do a bit more SEO.
Looks like it's not able to handle the load. Will check in some time.

Nice app btw. The only good thing from GR closure might be that the dev community comes up with some real great alternatives. And yes, I hope paid ones.
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I'm not sure that he would go this route. Based on what he's said in interviews, I get the sense that although he loves the Firefly characters as much as us, he DID get a chance to make the movie (Serenity) to wrap it up. VM fans/Rob Thomas didn't get that chance, hence this Kickstarter.

Also with the huge success of Avengers, Joss is going to be busy directing big budget sci-fi/fantasy/awesome movies for a while.
There is also a theft problem, both from shop lifting and employees. Given the slim margins in a grocery store it can be the difference between staying around and not.
This is the primary reason I use Google Reader too. I don't use the web interface at all, I just use it to keep track of everything so I can sync with it when I reconnect later, long after a number of items have disappeared forever from the official RSS feeds of active sites.
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It's awesome to run into you on HN. I'm building travel plans based on your blog postings!
"cons" is not just not a "reddit acronym", but is also a common term for "conventions" and "conferences" that has been in use for at least three decades. I haven't lived longer than two and a half but I wager it's older than I am.

You're not entitled to your own ignorance, and not everyone uses language the same way you do. Please lighten up, open your mind a little bit to that, and grow a thicker skin.
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An example of the TODOs app with AMD is great! Now if only Backbone and Underscore would support AMD natively so you wouldn't need to Shim them.
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I hate that too. When I get some free time, I'll create a new gmail account, import my Reader feeds to that, and sign in to theoldreader using the new gmail account. I suppose this will solve the problem, but it would be best if the good people at theoldreader fix it themselves.
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Now, Gujarat to cover Narmada canals with solar panels
I think this really resonates. I talked with a homeless guy who was pulling two shopping carts full of 'stuff' and asked him what was up with that. He had stuff that he could barter with other people for things he needed, he had stuff for dealing with different kinds of weather, he had stuff to disguise the stuff he really didn't want to get stolen, and stuff that he might need for a variety of contingencies.

I was really humbled by it because I had been ready to "explain" why carrying all that stuff wasn't helping his cause of living simply. He completely changed my perspective on it. I asked what was the one thing he needed and he said a pocket knife with a can opener. I got him two at a Big Five (which was where he was hanging out), one to use and one to trade for something down the road. More 'stuff', but with a purpose sadly.
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Except it doesn't "just work". For example, offline support is abysmal, and standard tasks such as viewing PDFs or Office documents are riddled with display bugs. Chrome OS has a long way to go before it's a serious competitor to the mainstream operating systems.
You'd raise it a season at a time. $150 million this year, $150 million next year.

I think this could very easily be done directly from the fans.

The main obstacle in the case of something like Harry Potter would be that big funding sources would be stumbling over themselves to fund it anyway.

Somewhere in there, there's a crossover point to where the venture's profitability is obvious even to those not interested in the content.
You can probably make a good guess based on appearance (clothes, race, gender, general appearance) + their location (which if you are looking at them in person, you know). You are right, you can be wrong, but it'd be worth testing, as my gut feel is you'd get more right, than wrong.
Would you pay for Google Reader per month? https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1xr6ZINsFK69VCPW2ryuTfHGrt1R...
You can set permission on who can see your account, and if one does not have permission to see you then you will not appear in the search results. In particular you can set it to be completely private.