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Most parents are wrong about their kids. Infact, they're compensating for their own failures. Do whatever the hell you want to do. Mostly, you'll need to try out different things.

It also depends on your personal inclinations. Are you a creative type ? Then why would you want to be a lawyer or a doctor ... or any professional job. When parents push you to go to MIT etc. just for the sake of it they're motivated by the status it'll give them and the bragging rights. Not if you screw the most important 4-5 years or your life.

When parents react, they're much more worried about how they'll be looked upon by their friends depending upon what their kids are doing. They're less worried about your well being. They also panic much faster -- especially if you have other routes. e.g. your startup would need 2-3 years to stabilize, it is entirely possible that your parents keep nagging you to leave that and go to school -- or keep reminding you how you could've become a (fuing) lawyer or a doctor. Asian parents will be extremely status conscious especially if you take a dip to do a startup and its got nothing to do with your ability to succeed.

Don't listen to your MOM !!! Women in general think things very different from men and are more status conscious (remember the lipstick and the makeup). Men are driven towards risk. In any case, if you ever want to do a startup you'll need a pretty thick skin and tons of persistence.

The other thing--is that when parents push you too much, it results in lack of self-acceptance. Not good. Will make you unhappy in the long run. Its much easier to survive these days than it was 50 years back.

Finally, it is entirely up to you to decide what will ultimately define your life. Will it be the same shit over and over again e.g lawyer, doctor, whatever. Or it'll be something new, something that you created. What's the fun in getting something every tenth person has got already. There's no challenge in that. There is however lots of value in being a researcher at a top university. I learnt the most ever at my first semester at MIT. But go to these places cause you really want to learn from the best and surround yourself with great people, not cause you want to gain status or bragging rights from that. Actually as long as you have the right mindset, you can probably learn a lot of stuff from opencourseware. If you have genuine interest in doing research, PhD is great, by I didn't find a lot of people over at MIT who were just mad passionate about the kind of work they were doing. I think a lot of people are able to attend MIT cause they were very conformist with their studies and undergrad research and eventually got lucky.

Oh, and get laid. Pls. More important than the phd.
Just scrolling through the wikipedia page, it looks like there are a number of them. Xobni, for instance.
I think working applications and paying customers demonstrate earnestness and tenacity more effectively than tales of the string of failures you've suffered to this point.
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shit happens. getting rejected is part of the entrepreneur's job description :) fortunately, YC lets you try again.

my first YC app (for my first company, an online SAT prep which I ran for a few years) was rejected, and their critiques were largely right.

i was accepted 2 years later with a different idea (dropbox).

that said, helpful as it may be, YC is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for success. it's still up to you to MSPW.
Lisp's reputation is so bad that many people don't even take a look at Lisp
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Cool, just joined. :-) I've been looking for groups like this...just moved out to the Bay Area about 3 months ago.
Some poor soul probably "encrypted" all his important documents into tiny little md5 strings that he now stores in his wallet.
This is a good article but don't forget you can use template files out of the box now, your designers will prefer it... even if they are you.

http://jay-mccarthy.blogspot.com/2008/11/templates-in-plt-we...

The only downside is that the "template language" is in fact scheme with a specialised reader so the templates have access to the entire language. Not entirely optimal.
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I just wish they sold the rainbow here in Brussels :-(
Also, FriendFeed has a FaceBook app. Which means that people can install that and then just use FaceBook as an aggregator for all their FriendFeed traffic.

When I was applying to FriendFeed last summer, a bunch of my friends were like "Oh, that's that FaceBook app that spews all your Reddit posts onto your FaceBook wall." And I kinda mentally facepalmed.
By this reasoning, equally valid answers would be $0.01 and $90.99.
I thought you were banned for life?
Four YC rejections, however, is pretty rough.
Hopefully some of the cooler Lisp dialects like Clojure & Nu will help out a bit. The "crazy parentheses" is usually the core reason people hate lisp, but until they realize its power, it's stupid stuff that prevents them from learning it.

For example, Nu is one of the coolest languages out there that allows one to do quick and dirty "scripting language" hacks in Objective-C. Due to Lisp's simple structure, Nu was able to directly map Objective-C method call signatures into something that clearly looks like basic Lisp. It allows one to code in 2 languages, but the Objective-C part of the language actually looks very similar to normal ObjC. One of the biggest benefits of Nu is that writing unit tests in ObjC is no longer painful... the whole testing structure is as simple as typical ruby unit test cases.

Clojure is another one of those wonderful libraries that is a must-have for anyone doing normal java. Even basic string manipulation is extremely verbose and annoying in Java, but is probably too heavy to load a JRuby/Jython interpreter... I think that's where clojure helps fill the gap. I recently implemented an "equivalent" of a google-analytics tracker in Clojure and the final result was only around 200 lines of code (with a little bit of java here and there). It's quite nice to use clojure as a glue-language to make all your java libraries work together with little clutter as possible.
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Hell no. It just means you have a ton of ideas and perhaps you don't know how many other similar projects are out there. Educate yourself a little more.
The first few months you don't know what you're doing, so you can't do a good job of selling to anybody. Freedom and support is more important.
I agree. The toastmasters are excellent at getting people to be more comfortable in front of groups of people. They've been doing this for DECADES. I'm not even sure how long, but it's been a long, long, time.

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I think the only way you'll be able to convince them is to let them know that you're doing the thing you want to do anyways -- with or without their emotional support. And if they remain negative or infact interfere in any way, you'll have to stop talking to them.

The above isn't as bad as it sounds. Women can take this kind of stuff, they're pretty resilient. Your dad care too much...he'll like your balls.
There is a winner-take-all nature at all levels of computing. Intel, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Youtube, etc. all enojoy a form of monopoly.
The problem is, someone with these preconceptions often doesn't even look for our replies!

How's about conceptualizing the problem less as "People don't come to the light about how Lisp is not as problematic as they think it is" and more as "We need to explain better how people's lives are going to improve if they learn and use Lisp". (I know, I know, I may have just committed the sin of marketing. Please forgive me.)

I do not have a Lisp-sized hole in my life right now.
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i'm an asian and i am not in your category

my parents were born in 1930s, due to wwii they didn't even finish high school.

my father (even so my mom) was very poor, he worked for a while for relatives but later for his own. he's good in business -- none of his children amasses comparable wealth though; however, none takes (or forced to take) 'stable' route (everyone works for self)

they are very hands-off on education. all but one receives bachelor degree though. i picked the school i wanted to go and majored in engineering -- never was forced.

my grades were always low. each year, pincipal always called my mom to discuss it. grades were never important to our family anyway and she's happy that i passed each :D

maybe it's just my parents. they survived one of the most tumultous era and without schooling or external help managed to do extremely well

so perhaps they expect as much for the children shrug

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from reading others in this thread, i got the impression that [highly academic] parents with stable income (linear growth, not exponential) tend to be pushy

maybe because the formula worked for them. that formula would have steered my parents into slavery (and very high chance that i now am plowing a field instead of hacking lisp)
> YC is a hell of an opportunity. The advice/mentoring, along with a little bit of cash is big for young ambitious hackers/entrepreneurs/dreamers like us.

To be a bit of a downer, I think that's why some people are so distraught about getting rejected - sure, some people are going to come out ahead anyway, and some never will no matter how much of a boost they get, but something like YC is a big push for those at the margin. It really could be the difference between success and failure.
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You can always compete with the "Cutters".
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Right on. Take this time to reflect on your idea. Winter application is 6 months away and now is the time to start preparing for it.
Arrington's really weird in this one. It's like a 50s B movie starring the incredible dangerous Twitter! It's a growth monster! And there's somehow something wrong with it buying its search feature, for some reason?

But there's one flaw in this monster movie - we have absolutely no reason to care about the protagonist. He cast everybody's favorite star as his villain and a no-name schlub as his hero. It's true that one of FriendFeed's founders did a cameo in a Paul Graham essay as an amazing startup founder wizard guy, but one paragraph of hearsay vs. a company that took over the world on a shoestring budget?

I don't get why he thinks we wouldn't side with Twitter here. I don't get why he thinks it's either FriendFeed or Twitter. I don't get why he thinks siding with either one makes sense in the first place. This thing could be written in Swahili for all I understand of it. I think Arrington's just insane.
"A critique is not ad-hominem if the target is a character trait relevant to the speaker's point."

As I interpret your sentence, that is not what the article you are quoting says, and it is also not correct. This is irrelevant here, however, because the character trait being discussed is not related to the speaker's point; it is merely an argumentum ad hominem.
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It may not be the actual address - I noticed a shoe purchased a few hundred miles off the coast of Africa in an area without islands (I zoomed in to check!).
Your parents are seldom a representative sample of the population.
who needs today founding & vcs to start up ???
A 'tsunami' of Boomer teacher retirements is on the horizon
A waitlist would imply that people were basically good enough, whereas pg has always said that if they like a group, they'll take them - it's not as if there is a number of accepted groups that is set in stone.
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we don't even know the meaning of our words, we are just using patterns and popular memes to express ourselves.
first we should reflect on the meaning of words, then the speaking itself will become poetry.
> PG: can we _still_hang_out_ with you guys on meetup nights. I'm serious.

If they let anyone who wanted come, then it wouldn't be so exclusive and it would lose some of its value. I know I'd love to go to those meetups if I were in the area, and so would 423442342 other people.
I'd like to add a couple things to this:

1. This is the 'gatekeeper' problem. You have a handful of people deciding if you're making "what people want". They can't possibly know what all people want. JK Rowling got rejected by, what, 20 publishers? They can't know. They can only do their best. The 'gatekeeper' problem also means you get idiosyncrasies, such as (essentially) a ban on single founders, etc.

2. Some ideas are easy to pitch, others nearly impossible. Take this year's Best Film Oscar winner, "Slumdog Millionaire", and try to pitch the plot in a way that's not ludicrous. You won't succeed. But take any cheesy, crappy B-flick and you can perfectly summarize it and even make it sound good. Now, I'm not saying there's a correlation between a good idea and difficulty in pitching it. (Ok, but I will say there's a clear correlation between mediocre ideas and ease of pitch.) So if you didn't get accepted, your idea either isn't very good or it's great.
This reads like a Chinese government strategy document: "the world thinks we suck. How do we convince everyone we're vibrant and fun-loving?"

I've been a Lisp hacker for years -- Symbolics Lisp Machine in my bedroom, coded in at least a half dozen different Lisp dialects -- but I ended up using Smalltalk for my startup. Treating Lisp's "rehabilitation" as a mere branding exercise shows just how screwed the Lisp community still is, and is symptomatic of the underlying issue. (By "Lisp", I mostly refer to Common Lisp.)

Lisp's problem is a meta-problem. The community is actively resistant to advancement, change, and evolution in the language. Attempts to modify (or even clarify) aspects of the Common Lisp standard are tedious exercises in futility, but the standardisation straitjacket is still seen as a good thing. A bit strangely, this resistance to change existing standards is accompanied by a slowness to standardise (even informally) anything that isn't already. The end result is that there's still no reliably portable way to write networking code in CL.

And this is why Lisp is unpopular.

The stasis is sad and ironic, given Lisp's hackerdom beginnings. Rather than wonder why, in 2009, so few are using Lisp, we should be amazed that the language is still pretty cool two decades after the innovation stopped.

I hope the Clojure guys change things. They seem to have the right approach.

Footnote: I was going to be a member of the CLRFI group (roughly equivalent to PEP or SRFI) that got some interest at ILC 2005, and which was going to try to create some sort of forward momentum in the community. It frizzled out, of course, and now http://clrfi.alu.org/ appears to redirect to the ALU homepage.
Being a lawyer specialized in cloud-based services (you know, either defending them against angry users who lost data, or helping the same users sue their services) - THAT will be a heck of a gold mine by 2015!

Come to think of it... Would YCombinator fund a tech-related law firm? :-)
If FF does that already, it isn't obvious. Recently I had to log into FF again to test something, and I didn't see that it could show me the tweets of all my Twitter friends. If it had done that, I might have given it a second chance. That is a must have feature (for the same reason, I am not using identi.ca), and if FF can do that, please don't bury that somewhere in hidden settings.

My impression was that it would only show me updates of my friends who are also on FF, which is next to useless.
Picwing does some hardware:

http://www.picwing.com/frame

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=277258
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Well, for example, a substantial fraction of our marketed energy use is devoted to heating and cooling (more than 50%); better building designs (like those from the Passivhaus program) essentially eliminate that, at a minimal additional construction cost. A lot of what's left is transportation; a switch from trucks to trains, plus bicycles and local electric public transit for short-distance people-moving, plus better streamlining and saner traffic control, would eliminate the majority of that. Your laptop uses maybe 15 watts; your car is maybe 300 000 watts at full power. It's not a matter of eliminating "modern technology" but rather developing and deploying truly modern technology that focuses on energy efficiency.
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If it is multiplatform and browser-based with no download required (as stated), this may be a great leap forward in remote support. However, the need to share a phone number for the free trial which "may" be used for sales calls is a show-stopper for me - I get enough calls already from web services I've ever demoed. In the meantime, I'm happy with:

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The "crazy parentheses" is usually the core reason people hate lisp

I very strongly suspect that the "crazy parentheses" is not actually why most people who hate Lisp hate Lisp. Crazy parentheses are nowhere near the top of my list of reasons, anyway. And, blaming parentheses is the same as complaining about the sigils in Perl or the significant white space in Python; it's just not a very intelligent argument, and can probably safely be dismissed as merely uninformed. Sure, you like what you're accustomed to, but you can become accustomed to different syntax quite easily...one or two weeks is all it took for me to switch from Perl to Python, and then back again a few years later.

A syntactic difference is just a very simple concept to latch on to; both for those who hate Lisp (for whatever reason) and those who want to explain away the people who hate Lisp (without having to address the real, but complicated, problems). There are a lot of very good reasons to hate Lisp, but they take more than one or two sentences to explain, and most folks just aren't going to invest that much effort in talking about something they just don't have that much interest in.

The linked article does mention a few of the very good reasons to hate lisp, and leaves out a couple that I think are possibly even more important:

- Lisp has a community that is generally hostile to newbies and outsiders (mentioning other languages, in particular, seems to be a big source of trouble). Contrast this with just about any other modern dynamic language community. Friendliness is practically religion in the Perl, Python, and Ruby communities (though I think only Perl has a formal religious institution for the purpose at perlmonks.org ).

- A community that has a deeply ingrained culture of NIH. There are dozens of incompatible Lisps, with dozens of incompatible libraries for all sorts of tasks. I've found Lisp to be the most difficult language with which to produce useful software as a beginner of any dynamic language I've tried. Not because Lisp is inferior to Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. but because I found it impossible to find any combination of components that made it possible for me to produce useful software without running into bugs or incompatibilities that my weak knowledge couldn't overcome. Even if Lisp allows for code that's half or a quarter the size of any other dynamic language (which seems an unlikely compression), the sheer volume of excellent libraries in Perl/Python/Ruby means I can write a tenth the code, making those languages a win even if the total line count, including libraries, is higher. I've been told (grouchily, in keeping with the smug Lisp weenie tradition) that tons of great libraries exist for Lisp. Despite this assertion, I've never been able to build even a toy (but useful) project in Lisp.
I'm curious to know how this counts in the long run, specially given the fact that basically all 'open source mobiles' (openmoko being the latest example) have been extincted or never lasted long, so far...
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I went to see if there was anything like ActiveRecord for Lisp, because, well, that's a pretty metaprogramming-heavy domain. What do I get as the first google hit? A forum post asking about that, http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006... --- never a good sign. Two people answered, one with a link to his rant on comp.lang.lisp, and one talking about the virtues of CLSQL.

The code snippet from CLSQL looks horrendous:

;; select the user with ID 1 and set his username column to joe
(let ((user (first (select 'user :where [= [id] 1] :flatp t :refresh t))))
(setf (username user) "joe")
(update-records-from-instance user))

Compare this to

User.find(1).update_attribute(:username, "joe")

16 tokens vs 45. I don't know CLOS, but

(update-attribute (find *User* 1) 'username "joe")

is a great start.
The excellent Wikipedia section you linked to makes it crystal clear that the CRA, which passed in 1977, had no causal role in the subprime meltdown that started in 2007. That should be immediately obvious to the most casual observer, since there were 30 years between the events in question, but in case you were doubting, the article draws on a wide variety of sources of evidence.
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A few additions:

* The parenthesis do require that you have at least a moderately capable editor to navigate them effectively. You can start coding things like PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc... with a pretty crappy editor and do ok.

* NIH - bingo! Lisp has always struck me as being very insular, with a very strong 'turtles all the way down' mentality. "It would really be best if the OS were written in Lisp too...", whereas the "scripting" languages are very promiscuous in terms of what they will interact with and run on. This has led them to focus on doing what they are good at, and calling out to C or other languages for what they are not so good at, which is ultimately more productive than rewriting existing systems just so that they'll be 100% in your language of choice. (Yes, sure, not everyone in the Lisp world is like that, but I get that general feeling).
I like the first solution in the comments - use mmap, work page by page (or pair of pages by pair of pages).
Including threading, cache, and rudimentary web front end.

Edited for asyncronous feedback.

Used as so: http://localhost:9242/http://tinyurl.com/unicycles

import urllib2, cherrypy.wsgiserver
cache = {}
def app(environ, start_response):
start_response('200 OK', [('Content-type','text/plain')])
url = environ['PATH_INFO'].lstrip('/')
yield 'Looking up: ' + url + '...'
try:
result = cache.get(url)
if result is None:
result = urllib2.urlopen(url).geturl()
cache[url] = result
except urllib2.HTTPError:
result = "URL Doesn't exist"
except ValueError:
result = "Invalid Url"
yield result

cherrypy.wsgiserver.CherryPyWSGIServer(('127.0.0.1', 9242), app).start()