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Did you learn anything from your failed start up?
I'm curious to get the communities take on whether you learn more from start ups that have failed, than start ups that have succeeded.

Here is my thinking:

I've read many of the "keys to success" type of books, e.g. "Good to Great" or "The Art of the Start", but the information always seemed either inapplicable or flawed. Ultimately it seems very challenging to know why we have succeeded, but our brains are very capable of designing reasons in retrospect. It's my understanding there are a wealth of studies that support this theory. In "The Black Swan" Nassim Nicholas Taleb goes into some nice detail on the topic. Basically, we create narratives that make sense. "Our company was successful because of our culture" - that sounds good, but who knows if that really was the cause. The solution is not to look at all the companies that were successful to see if they also had a similar company culture, but to look at the companies that failed to see if they also shared that trait. If they did, then that trait is not THE key to success. But successful entrepreneurs(/people) are very prone to create a narrative cause to their success, and attribute that cause to actions - instead of chance.

Have you learned more from your failures or your successes. If you have had a failed start up, did you walk about stronger? Do you think you would have learned more had you been lucky and successful? Could it easily have gone either way, or was it doomed?

Thanks for your thoughts!
As far as I can tell iCloud still has no sharing feature. I was really bummed as I'd love to be able to use that instead of Dropbox for managing Pages documents (mostly book manuscripts), but it just doesn't seem to be there yet.
Git will always freak when you have large WAV files in there. Use git-media to offload that to an external file server: https://github.com/schacon/git-media
$14k/3 weeks = about $4600/week. That is equivalent to a salary of $230k. Better to take the higher paying job and just take some time off unpaid.
Out of curiosity when did open source become "The Man" as implied by this article?
This thing works amazingly well. It's basically just adding a net to the box fan. I seriously think that it could fight malaria around the world.

http://skeeterbag.com/

I bought a mosquito magnet that cost hundreds of dollars, and it basically did nothing. The skeeterbag started catching mosquitos in minutes.

I am not a shill, and have no affiliation with that company.
After reading a lot of other people comments on all the aspects of trusting open source or not I do believe now that even if something is open source does not mean it should be trusted by default. I am sure (could be wrong) that a lot of code in linux (shell & apps) would have never been peer reviewed or peer reviewed but by those who are not extremely good at understanding how things are hidden.

After all NSA has some of the brightest minds on its payroll and those guys sure know computers better than some people know the back of their hands.

But do the non-tech users and tech users (who are not great at programming) have a choice? We have to use what is available in the market if we want to use computers.
While Linus should not be saying that all civility and political correctness are fake, I think there is a valid point to be made. For many people, such things ARE fake, and they prefer environments without it. The key idea, though, is that both are viable options.

There is nothing inherently superior about "I think this patch could use work" vs "This patch is garbage", outside of emotional response, and to some people, the first is actually worse, for the reasons he stated. And just as it would be out of place for someone in google to state "You ought to be expressing your code reviews with less weasel words and more profanity to be more honest", it is wholly out of place for someone to come in to the linux kernel mailing lists and demand everyone stop swearing as much to be more "professional".

They think your communication sucks because it is indirect and dishonest. You think their communication sucks because it is vulgar and excessive. Maybe the best solution is to understand that in a different culture, similar ideas may be expressed differently, and be tolerant of these cultural and personal differences?
I agree, it seems the EFF has learned from previous quasi-legal justifications for having their cases dismissed, so they want to have all their bases covered and approach from different angles.
Check out Blend.io. Its a betaworks-studio product for open-source, cross-geo music collaboration. It currently supports Ableton Live and Maschine but support for other DAWs (including Logic) is coming soon.
Getting the [Mozilla] Web Literacy Standard ready for beta launch
I think I'm safe in blaming both - to different extents in each location.
I am making a website to match people with similar values and ideas!
It just happens that we measure these properties on values from -100 to 100, I think it could fit perfectly.
It even has ability to attribute weights to different properties.. sounds like fun =)
Seemed to be pretty obvious truth to me. Steve Jobs has created an ecosystem that is far more locked down than the 1984 he envisioned in the original Mac Ad. He has ushered in an era of computing in which the general purpose device is giving way to a device where you don't even control what content you can put on it.

We used to think that DRM on desktop PCs was bad, but for mobile devices it's 10x worse.

Now, see how I just explained the issue with Steve Jobs, instead of saying "He was a piece of shit who passed of Woz's work as his own, lied to him about money, denied paternity of his daughter, verbally abused employees and kept them in a state of fear, maintained an 'enemy list' of journalists, .....!" That's inflammatory rhetoric, and not relevant. The only thing that is relevant is the sea change in DRM'ed computing platforms have been popularized and his role in them, which is what Stallman was alluding too -- the effects of his leadership.
It'd be handy to let a customer have multiple subscriptions, and to have those subscriptions be associated with one of the customer's cards.

Currently that has to be abstracted away on client-side databases and we end up having multiple 'Stripe customers' associated with a single client, so it fudges our customer count in the Stripe management interface.
This dude's State Alchemist title is probably Fullcode Alchemist
Not in Seattle: http://gigabitseattle.com
You are throwing your work away by giving it the same name as an already established JS library.
How about this as a starting point...

Terminals with access to the DB and analysis tools in every city hall. Accounts and access for all citizens of good standing (make a new security clearance level for this to codify the notion - revoked for stalking, felonies, publishing DB information outside the terminals etc). Access is logged and also in the DB. A set of forums reachable through the terminals that allow discussion of findings and policies (some with real names attached some with pseudonyms).

The implication being, that you could read someone's email, but it is a matter of record that you did. Or perhaps the new citizens' security clearance would be stratified so that one needs to earn one's way up the scale of accessing info about other people, perhaps quorum's to grant higher clearance levels or temporary opening of some records.

Yeah, rather unrealistic techno-utopian in thinking, I admit. But this is an entry-level idea of equal access taken straight-forwardly. Born a bit from me trying to keep myself wondering, how would this work in Banks' Culture?
The linux kernel is a far less dysfunctional social setup than any of the other places you mentioned (even though it's older than some of them), and I weakly suspect it's partly because of Linus's modus operandi.

People notice his swearing but not who he attacks. My observation has been that he's exquisitely careful about picking his targets, always picking people who've been in the group for a while, and never attacking a noob. This sets an extremely egalitarian tone for the group: nobody is immune, and anybody can be questioned on their actions.

(I'm a lot less sanguine than him, though, about the effect this confrontational ethos has on the participation of women in the group.)
Ah yes, this is just brimming with positivism and love: http://edward.oconnor.cx/2005/04/rms
What if ours becomes better known? As I said we've started 2 years ago.
Writing a big novelty check to make it happen is another option, and a perfectly fine one (see, e.g., the interstate system). But there is no situation in which everyone gets service, the prices are reasonable, the quality is high, and nobody writes a big check.
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As an anecdote, I havn't even read the article, but I live in orleans parish in New Orleans, LA. I have a choice of two high-speed internet providers, Cox cable and AT&T, I have AT&T, and recently I was told I needed to switch to AT&T U-verse, which sounded great, I mean upgrades are good right? Months later I come to find out that my internet and phone which are now bundled together no longer work periodically, and during stormy times they practically never work: Long story short, my house is a) too far from the nearest point of service for anything faster than a 1.5Mbps connection, b) it's not real U-verse service c) I can't even keep the bundled phone and internet, though thankfully they did reduce our bill somewhat. The real kicker is though that for 6years there has been a lawsuit against Orleans parish because our former mayor was an executive of cox cable and made it ILLEGAL, yes illegal, for fiber optics to be installed in Orleans parish. It's ridiculous we're not talking high explosive weaponry, slaves, or other contraband; but I could just move out of my parish where the law isn't quite so foolish.
Startup Canada Launches 1000 Startups, a Profile Database for Entrepreneurs
> California's problem is mostly because of their ballot propositions, especially the effects of prop 13, which limits property taxes to 1% of the original sale price.

The limit is to 1% of the current assessed "full cash value", not the original sale price. However, there is also a limit that the assessed "full cash value", despite the name, can increase no more than 2% per year excluding new construction (and quite a lot of classes of improvements are expressly excluded from counting as "new construction") and changes of ownership (and certain changes of ownership don't count, as well.)

The net effect of which is that the property tax base can fall rapidly with real estate market collapses, but expands only slowly with real estate market booms (and, particularly, that property that doesn't change hands frequently tends to be taxed at a low nominal rate applied to a value that is vastly below its actual market value.)
Why Lettuce Keeps Making Us Sick
The problem isn't about rights; as I said, we have segregated infrastructure AND we can use public roadways in Ontario. I don't think anyone's going to take that away. The problem is the way segregated infrastructure is promoted: here in Ottawa, they have green circle signs with bicycles, as if to say 'bicycles are allowed here'. This gives drivers the impression that bicycles won't be on streets without the signs, and that they can be inattentive (dooring, cutting people off while turning, etc). All of our cycling fatalities locally come from driver inattention, not malice - even though it's douchey to overtake aggressively, it doesn't kill nearly as often as opening your door without looking.

I guess my point is that road cycling culture is a chicken and egg problem. If more people of all ages are riding, drivers will be more conscious, and it will be safer. If everyone stays constrained to the walking paths and bike lanes, the utility isn't there ( because the lanes and paths don't go where you want ), and the drivers get to stay oblivious.

Finally, your last point about the dual carriageway misses the point completely. Yes, people who like biking a lot are the 'early adopters' who push for more radical social change. For all the reasons I've mentioned, highways are actually very safe: wide lanes, wide shoulders, very little direction changing (no turns, no dooring) and pretty attentive drivers. I'd wager you have less fatalities on highways than congested metropolitan areas, because the drivers are less distracted and overburdened.
While I wouldn't express my vision for linux the exact way Linus does if I were in his position, but I actually agree with Linus' argument. Sharp shouldn't be trying to enforce her cultural bias on Linus; it is just the way he is, and she should just put up with it. Linus, so far, has shown how to move linux forward, albeit Sharp not being comfortable with his colorful/abrasive use of the English language.
As bsaul hints at, isn't Google, it is the people behind Go. Google didn't say, let us make a new language. Instead employees ask management if they could work on a language. Given this perspective it is easy to see why supporting D wasn't chosen.

Even so, D is making good progress and has a good community to keep it alive for a long time to come.
Very true @joss82. I propose that we all think about what we want on our own epithet daily. Death is a constant (obviously) and although I do not propose drudging through life preparing for the inevitable, I do support rethinking what our ancestors have passed through to us. We live in a new age where information has occupied the speed of light, so life celebration (or preparing for death) could be revisited, however you so shall choose, that's all I'm saying.
StatusPage (YC S13) Lets Anyone Communicate With Customers About Outages
Ah, well, I completely agree there :) Forgive me, but I didn't really catch the preventative portion of the essay. Looking back over it, I can certainly see your point above and we're more than likely "violently agreeing", heh.

Seems like we're both saying "an ounce of prevention..." here
Sounds quite a bit like Samsung's new Smart TVs:

http://www.samsung.com/us/2013-smart-tv/#smart-tv-2

I've seen one in person and the gestures work quite well, although it seems a bit gimmicky to me and you still need a remote.
what is "Latter?" in your post above? not being pedantic - trying to work out what this thing is to see if i can buy it...
Firereader: a real-time content aggregator based on Firebase and Angular
Lobbyists make more money, because they lobby on behalf of clients for the money, while think tanks do it for the ideology.
Ah, I see how this could be a problem. Maybe show it the like now, and then if you click on it one could pprint it. Does print-length work with pprint?
No, not quite.

> Google had no involvement in the PRISM program and the first we heard of it was when Greenwald's article hit the press. -Yonatan Zunger

I'd say that's a pretty big lie right there.
"Taking a couple dozen milliseconds is not the end of the world."

In games, where you draw the whole screen for each frame, the magic number nowadays is 16ms. This gives you 60fps. For a TV-attached console, this is a good as it gets. For a PC it is just fine.

Taking longer than 16ms is not the end of the world, but noticeable lag for the gamer.
For the past few months, I have been using Windows at work (MS shop) after a long hiatus from Redmond's OS. I used to be a full-time Linux user and then moved to OS X.

Recently, I had to set up a development environment for ASP.Net development and was taken aback by the sheer amount of things I needed to install and knobs I had to turn to get it working. I've never had so much trouble on Linux nor OS X.

The same is true for getting a working build environment for our main product (CPython-based). I find Windows to be quite hostile to non-VS environments.

It's time to retire ye olde Linux-is-complex argument. It really does not hold up to scrutiny. I say this as someone that uses Windows 5/7 days and OS X 7/7 days, so I'm at least a little bit informed about the OSes.
The employer makes someone a lobbyist, I believe.
1. Torvalds doesn't employ anyone to work on the kernel, it's an open source project not a company. Sarah and everyone else on that mailing list are volunteers.

2. Professionalism means different things to different people, and in Linus's case it means being uncompromising in his expectations of the people he allows to work on his code.

3. Yes, he's an asshole. He wears that badge with pride (just look up the origination of the name for "git"), but he's also been an asshole for the past twenty years or so. I think people ought to know what they're getting into by now, and if not then it's their own fault.

4. He has the right to run his project how he sees fit, and so far that's working pretty damn well. Would that work for me? No. Would it work for you? Probably not. Does it work for what is potentially the most important software contribution to the world? Yes, it most certainly does. And that's the bottom line.
Good thing you have a patent. Now, if you can't be bothered to make a Mac version, no one can! (maniacle villian laughter goes here, don't forget to twirl your mustache)
Dare I say we need a patent super hero, like Captain Patent.
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Microsoft releases native Outlook Web Apps for iPhone, iPad
You will enjoy 'Finland phenomenon', a documentary about their education system, if you haven't seen it yet.
The state as an institution is the final arbiter in judgments against itself. So it often surprises me that folks think they can achieve any kind of success against the state by litigating in this way. The grade school civics class that Americans are taught as children that there are separate branches of government competing with each other and keeping each other in check is an incredible caricature of what actually happens. These "branches" of government are all part of the same institution - the state - and the only competing they do is which of them can arrogate as much power to themselves as possible at the expense of the population, not at the expense of each other.
That's a fairly hyperbolic calculation. The difference between $98k and $84k is not really life-style changing.

On the other hand, if you can find a North American employer that gives you 12 days of paid vacation days off and you somehow get them to agree to give you an additional 18 unpaid days off a year, you've done quite well. I don't think it's a realistic scenario for a non-contractor.
From Wikipedia:

There are numerous regulations governing the practice of lobbying, often ones requiring transparency and disclosure.[7] People paid to lobby must register with the secretary of the Senate and the clerk of the House of Representatives within 45 days of contacting a legislator for the first time, or 45 days after being employed.[5][7] An exception is that lobbyists who earn less than $3,000 per client for each fiscal quarter, or whose total lobbying expenses are less than $11,500 each quarter, do not need to register.[7] Part-time lobbyists are exempt from registering unless they spend more than 20% of their working hours doing lobbying activities in any quarter. If lobbyists have two or more contacts with a legislator as a lobbyist, then they must register.[5][7] Requirements for registering also apply to companies that specialize in lobbying, or ones that have an in-house lobbyist, particularly if they spend more than $11,500 on lobbying.[7] Generally, nonprofit organizations, other than churches, are exempt from registering if they hire an outside lobbying firm.[7] Filing must be made each quarter, and a separate file is needed for each of the lobbyist's clients, and include information such as the name and title of the client, an estimate of lobbying expenses, and an estimate of income the lobbyist achieved after doing the lobbying.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying_in_the_United_States
A friend has a rifle in 300 AAC Blackout. Subsonic ammo is far quieter than supersonic -- but you'd still want hearing protection. With a suppressor attached, it's quieter still -- you can fire it without wearing earplugs. But it's not "Hollywood quiet" - that's a movie myth.
TLDR: we made nearly every rookie mistake in the book.

“A ‘build it and they will come’ mentality has taken over the startup space."

I don't want to sound patronizing (but I will anyway). "Has taken" is the wrong verb tense. It's been that way for over a decade, particularly for early stage startups with technical founders. Find yourself some better advisors next time around, if you failed on rookie mistakes, you'll have little hope of solving the "level 2" problems without some seasoned counsel.
Riiiight.... like in NC where TWC lobbied successfully to restrict competition from local governments:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/22/nc-governor-will-let-cabl...

http://www.muninetworks.org/content/after-4-years-twc-buys-i...

This was after Wilson, NC was unable to get neither TWC nor Embark to build out a fiber network for its residents, so the city built it out themselves:

http://www.wilsonnc.org/living/fiberopticnetwork/greenlighth...
> a deregulated telecom industry will focus on the high-end consumers, just like every company does.

It is not actually true that "every company" focuses on high-end, nor is it true that "that's where the money happens to be". There is at least as much money to be made by focusing on low-end consumers in most markets, at least when it's legal to do that. McDonald's and Burger King make more money than any high-end restaurant that charges $200/person; Walmart makes more money selling clothes than does Saks Fifth Avenue.

Those who want some service the most and are willing to pay for it often do get it first, but the masses generally get it soon after - and they get a BETTER PRODUCT - the bugs get worked out while serving the early adopters. The first silk stockings were made for the Queen of England, but within a generation similar stockings were affordable by the average working girl. The brilliance of the market is NOT in making more stuff for the queen - that is a very limited market opportunity - but in bringing costs down to serve the masses.

(I agree with some of the other stuff you wrote, just not the claim that companies inherently serve the rich first. Some do, some don't. And these sorts of regulatory restrictions almost invariably hurt the poor the most, as they have the most to gain from new options becoming available. Rich people can usually afford to opt out or buy their way out of the service level that poor people are stuck with - private schools, private security patrols, or in this case: buying your own satellite dish.)
Apple and Microsoft have had a cross-licensing deal since Steve came back to Apple. There are better sources that I don't have handy, but http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/13/3239977/apple-and-microsof... confirms the base details.
Throat mic available at DX.com and other Chinese online retailers last time I checked

EDIT:
You can even pick colors:
http://dx.com/s/throat
Fixed:

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/commit/b9322a12e9598911f...

The hashes are automatically generated, it turns out.
Do you have any numbers of how many would-be contributers have been scared aways by him? How many, on the other hand, have been attracted by his person? And what about the 1-to-2 ratio, any proof for that? And how would all of this make the Linux kernel better? How is being nice and polite related to the quality of your code?
Good point, line removed.
A tricky wicket indeed. I feel the more devices are always-on, the more the devices uploading data on their own accord the more privacy by default should be given to others. It is really no longer an issue of wondering if someone is going to post an image to Facebook from a device, but if the device is going to publishing "metadata" on it's own.

Devices like Glass seem to be the threshold where this always on activity becomes most apparent as a potential problem. No doubt we'll be seeing more in the future, Motorola's recent always-on-ness hardware for example.