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"The problem with courses like the one the OP took is not that they offer bad advice, but they get people thinking about what they can sell instead of a) what problems they can solve and b) what problems they have the authority to solve."

I took the same course as OP. You're making a lot of assumptions here. I have to chime in, because 30x500 is almost the exact opposite of what you've described.

1. We spent an overwhelming amount of time learning how to find, identify, and dissect pains and problems. Importantly, all of this was done well before we spent any time about thinking what types of products we should sell.

(Side note: Check out this free lesson from 30x500 to get an idea of how we approach "pains"... http://unicornfree.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Lesson-12-...)

2. The problem with OP wasn't that she wasn't "expert enough" to solve the problem SaaS Compass addresses. (There's no question that her product benefits SaaS owners.) It was a matter of her perceived authority, and that's something that can - and, knowing Jaana, will - be established over time. (e.g. through content marketing, publishing helpful, free information on her blog, etc.)

"I'd encourage anyone looking to sell a product like this to spend just as much time, if not more, becoming an expert on said field before selling advice."

3. "Expert" is a very broad term, so this is wishy-washy advice. At what point is someone considered an expert? Can I teach 3 year olds to play soccer even if I'm not an expert soccer player? Hmmm, I think we're on to something. On top of that, what type of expert does one need to be? "Said field" is equally vague. Fields are BIG. You don't need to be an all-round SaaS expert to sell to SaaS owners. You just need to be an expert at one particular slice of SaaS, and know more about that than most SaaS owners do. (For instance, you can be a CRO expert and sell CRO advice that's targeted and tailored to SaaS owners and their CRO problems.)
Great news - Plivo is awesome my company is currently working on a VOIP system these guys are powering us. The call quality is fantastic compared to Twilo
I've worked with both node and Go. There is a lot of hyperbole and fluff points about Go's strengths in the original article (sorry to the author!). Things that are touted as huge wins for Go have equally better things in node. Both platforms are great and they both have appeal for different people.

My eloquent post was eaten by an expired link on the original article but here are some counter-points:

The commutative property applies to all code that has semicolons to end lines. Use jslint/jshint/an IDE. The symbol is "optional" not marked as "leave it out because it makes scripts nicer."

Use jslint/jshint/an IDE to prevent globals. Seriously. It's the same as running go fmt on your code.

Forcing people to use "channels" as a best practice to accomplish scaling is the same as the best practice of callbacks - but yes, channels are nicer to use. Node standard modules require callbacks by default as Go standard library implements channels by default.

32-bit integers in JS don't have float problems because the precision doesn't break

Typing in Go can still be annoying for some situations. If you're dealing with external content (creating an API with mutable content that you still need to read) it can be annoying at best (e.g. reminds me of writing C). Types in Go are a nice implementation though.

npm is way better than go get and there are at least 3 projects in Go trying to replicate npm's ease-of-use

The vim/emacs syntax highlighter is nice but it's awfully frustrating if you don't use vim/emacs. This is due to Go's young age, but you shouldn't be forced into using a certain editor to get syntax highlighting.

The alternative to "go fmt" for Javascript is a good IDE or jslint/jshint.

In Go, you get a lot in the standard library, but you miss out on a lot in the community. Yet another young language problem, you wind up having to roll your own for a lot of things that should just exist. It can be frustrating looking for answers because you might be the first person working on the problem in the language.

Also, just as a general thing I've perceived, people seem to argue static types vs dynamic types more than that a particular language is "better." Go and JS/node are both great!!!! Go is typed, JS is not and you deal with the consequences in both situations. Static typed languages have big faults with external data handling that sometimes cripple features (or makes them far more difficult to accomplish). Dynamic typed languages can fall victim to variables being used incorrectly (especially when not using an IDE). That's the biggest bulk of the difference in my experience.
Google fiber comes to Provo, UT along with new Python dev school
This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. You're using a web based email service and you're sending postcards when you should be sending letters. Both this and Lavabit feel like distractions.
For immigration to serve as a counterweight to declining birth rates, you do need to haul people over in boatfulls. And its a modern classist conceit that the virtues of western culture come from education and wealth rather than socialization and upbringing. There are plenty of educated wealthy middle easterners who cover their daughters faces in public and believe its morally acceptable.
"I object to a huge, creepy advertising company having that much access to me and my data, I think it’s unwise to use many proprietary, hard-to-replace services in such important roles, and I think it’s downright foolish to tie that much of your data and functionality into proprietary services run by one company in one account that sometimes gets disabled permanently with no warning, no recourse, and no support."

that's one horrific run-on sentence. it's both grammatically flawed and descriptive solely of the platform the author is attempting to defend.

i can no longer tell if this guy's serious or just trolling.
My point is that i used to live in Austin, where "trying to kick you out of the apartment" involves not offering you a lease for the following year, because, say, they don't like your haircut. That is, any reason as long as it's not because you are a protected class or for retaliation for requesting repairs. If that doesn't work, they could just double, or triple, your rent.

The idea that you actually get to perpetually live in an apartment even if the owner doesn't want you there is quite generous. The idea that it's socially deemed "the right thing to do" is rather progressive.
There will be heat; even the suborbital Mercury-Redstone missions needed heat shields.

I don't know how SpaceX is planning on handling that. Maybe the trajectory they put themselves on is going to be slow enough to survive reentry using just the main engine nozzles as make-shift heat shields?
Location, location, location...

"The number of properties renting for less than $1,772 within a mile of Google shuttle stops declined sharply between 2010 and 2012"

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-silicon-valley-backlas...

So, the real problem is that people want to live conviently to work. If there were only some other way to solve this problem. Unfortunaley, that might would urban planning.

It's great that we're all thinking about the Hyperloop so we can travel 400 miles in 30 minutes. How about crossing San Francisco and into the valley in 30 minutes?
In Canada, similar gentrification is also happening rapidly in Toronto/Vancouver. Detroitification happened on the Canadian east coast (when the fishing industry died). And we have better "social safety nets". I don't think social programs manage to keep cities alive or the same as they were, nor would the overall country benefit from trying harder to do so.

The main difference w/ Toronto vs SF is that Toronto has a liberal condo building policy so more affordable housing is being built by a (relatively) booming real estate industry. Whereas SF's property development growth has nowhere near reflected its population/income boom.
That's kind of a subject for a blog post which I've been meaning to write.. but ya, Eric and I ended up Rwanda just because we wanted to do something different with our software skills. So we moved here, started a company, hired on some brilliant devs and started working with various NGOs which introduced us to how SMS is a really useful tool. Eventually we decided we wanted to do something better than the current tools available, something that could be used easily by NGOs large and small and that's where TextIt came in.

Lots of twists and turns in that story of course, but that's the cliff notes.
Are there any actual critiques to be had against Google busses other than some vague misplaced anger? Here we have private companies using their own capital to provide a more environmentally friendly way of getting their employees to the South Bay. What exactly is the problem here? Would they prefer if things were more like LA and everyone of these tech employees had their own high priced car? Would that make the wealth disparity less apparent?

Then after a few anecdotes of assholes acting like assholes (as if that's representative of anything), Uber is of course targeted. I find this particularly hilarious because I would argue that ride-share companies are exactly the tech companies who are working on real problems. Go ride in a Lyft or Uber X and ask the driver how they feel about the company. Lyft is providing real jobs and making use of resources that would otherwise be notoriously redundant and misused (cars).
As a single developer on a project, I use js on the front-end, NodeJS and CouchDB (views written in js). This means that every step of the way is js, json and http, which is extremely liberating for me, as someone who's just starting out with web development.
> Surely, they weren't as devastating as nuclear weapons which were developed by an astonishing array of celebrated scientists.

Who were all working under the fear that Nazi scientists would develop it first and give it to Adolf Hitler. It's hard to fault them morally for thinking that it would be best for someone else to get to it first.
A clean F-16 might have Mach 2 as its top speed, but not even close to that with bags and bombs.
With the eventual goal of returning the second stage, as well.
Must be overloaded with visitors being informed that they've exceeded their article quota.
Anyone know on what's going on?
Fedora does a lot of things really well. I use it daily on my personal laptop. Yum is so much nicer than apt-get and many things Just Work™.

It also does a lot of things really poorly.

-Interacting with the people in their official IRC channel is painful, and many of the power users are outright hostile if not cyberbullies. The community is quite toxic.

-Fedora-modded kernels have seen a massive regression in power consumption in the latest release. My laptop under Fedora 17 and 18 used to idle at a respectable 6.5 Watts. That's up to about 12 Watts now.

-Fedora already moves quickly and as a result some parts of the project don't keep up. A lot of the documentation is for Fedora versions that are EOL.

I don't think the move to Agile will be a positive change.
The average computer user cannot be expected to know how GMail has always worked. We do not teach the relevant technical background in school. This is easy to forget when you spend most of your time around technically competent people.
Not nearly as impressive.
Re-using without massive refurbish costs is their ultimate goal, hence the assumption. If things go according to their plan, they are going to have turn-around of single-digit hours. Avoiding massive refurb is one of the reasons why they are not keen on dropping their rockets into salt-water for several hours. The Shuttle SRBs were really only nominally reusable. SpaceX is going for actually reusable.

A Falcon 9 lower stage also isn't a spaceplane covered in very expensive and fragile tiles, sitting next to a rocket. That helps.
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I believe, particularly, one of the major reasons for developing the systems in these tests is to create a system where there the first stage can land itself after being jettisoned, to be reused.
What is this, "it's not anyone's business" bit? It's also not anyone's business what goes on outside of our solar system, or what goes on at the bottom of the ocean.
What is really troubling is how many outlets are picking that piece of propaganda as is, with no attempt to even look at the source - both the original text of the motion the people who are spreading the misinformation.
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Interestingly the actual melting point of Mercury (according to Wikipedia) is 234.3210K which is still a way off the 250K calculated by this study. I wonder how realistic is it to exactly calculate melting points of metals and other materials from first-principles?
my classmate's mother-in-law makes $69 every hour on the laptop. She has been fired for eight months but last month her check was $19742 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Here's the site to read more,, www.max38.com
Yet if you browse to the IP's directly, it is up...

http://170.149.168.130
> The laws in SF are as renter friendly as you can get in this country.

That depends what you mean. Rent control, for example, can be viewed as extremely friendly to the current renters but extremely unfriendly to would-be renters and the rental market as a whole.
I can't believe you got downvoted. You've made explicit the sycophantic, uncritical Elon Musk worship that permeates this thread.
Generate revenue from these? (that is, make up and levy a new tax)

Were it not for these buses, there would be more cars on the road (and jostling for parking spots, and more pollution) and more people piling into Muni, Caltrain and BART during rush hour. These buses, like the bathrooms in Starbucks, are a private company providing a public good.

I work for a company that doesn't give me these buses. I wish they did. I'm plenty envious. But I am under no illusion that these private bus systems owe me anything more than the lightened traffic burden they already gave me.
I wish there was something like openvbx.com for Plivo, or better yet, a carrier agnostic telephony client platform that could showcase the full functionality of the platform.
Launching a ten story tube into the air, and safely landing it on the ground really is impressive.
And here's an interesting story on why gold was destined to be used as currency: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/02/15/131430755/a-chemis...
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Didn't finish the job, realised code was optimised out by O3 and left it at that.
Unoptimised strncmp was beating unoptimised memcmp, it was taking 1.900s to finish where memcmp was taking 2.178s over many iterations.
If you're only referring to what recruiters send to you, then you're frustration is for not. While I can understand your issues with labels, this is a keyword driven era where you have to summarize your entire skill set into a few short keywords so people can categorize you.

While recruiters tend to generalize requirements, they aren't looking for generalists. They're looking for candidates that match specific keywords.

I get letters from them for Drupal contracts, when the C# to Drupal ratio is 500:1 on my resume.

Unfortunately, the tech world has made us "our f-ing khakis".
Should you live with your co-founder?
Because these aren't actual Forbes articles. Anything on forbes.com/sites/XYZ is somebody's blog, not content that is actually vetted by Forbes.
Yep, finally switched to Bing, although I was supposed to be using it even before, and it's soo much faster than the new Google maps.
Good to hear feedback from customers!
"Wednesday, August 14, 2013 Last Update: 11:07 AM ET" 2 hours ago as of this post.
What can be done? Build more housing I guess, but who's to say the most desirable still won't be bought by those looking to pay the most?

Not to be dismissive of the impact to those who have up to this point been able to afford it and now must change their lives.. but I don't know if there's any 'cure' for people wanting to sell a scarce resource to the highest bidder.
Thanks for your input. Are you looking at a PBX sought of use case?
Is it me or do the comments in the source seem sparse?
From the NY Times Twitter account, https://twitter.com/nytimes

"As you are undoubtedly aware, we are experiencing a server issue that has resulted in our e-mail and Web site being unavailable."

"We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which we expect to be resolved soon."

"We will communicate further when we have more information. - from @NYTimesComm"
The whole point of this (and a hundred other) articles is that the US is losing its "middle."

Increasingly, you are either rich or poor. A have or a have not. Most HN readers are haves or (because you are still young) think you will be haves. But life doesn't always turn out according to plan.
I can confirm this fact in Toronto.

I can still see some seniors living in older neighbourhoods in Toronto but most of them have moved to the suburbs.
Eh, no mnemonic device? Most people memorize things by simple repetition. If you're implying anyone can have eidetic memory by "removing their limits", I don't buy it. It's something developed at a young age.
An internal issue, not a cyberattack as previously reported.
Only when looked at a certain way. Strike Debt and Occupy Sandy are going strong.

It's hard to say that any decentralized organization 'failed,' exactly. Changing the national conversation isn't exactly failure. But it wasn't outright insurrection either.

And regardless of failure die to internal issue, the executive branch paying money for intel on how to disrupt political groups isn't cool.
Interesting; does the id in the URL change?
Nice example of someone adding a leap motion controller to their site, GoSquared:
https://www.gosquared.com/blog/playing-around-with-the-new-l...
I'm not going to argue this demonstrates utility, but it does show some good recognition of smaller gestures.
You can, if you figure out how to operate the Tardis.
They're providing updates through the twitters, though not terribly informative ones...

@nytimes: Part 1/3: As you are undoubtedly aware, we are experiencing a server issue that has resulted in our e-mail and Web site being unavailable.

@nytimes: We believe the outage is the result of an internal issue, which we expect to be resolved soon. (2/3)

@nytimes: We will communicate further when we have more information. - from @NYTimesComm (3/3)
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Weird didn't seem like a DNS problem.
I think this article fundamentally misinterprets Greg Stevens' article. He is not saying that anyone is bound to a field. What he is objecting to is the rejection of the idea of taking time to become qualified. Rob Rhinehart is attempting to do something he is patently unprepared to do, and if could have serious health consequences for adopters of Soylent.

I believe that if Rhinehart had spent enough time to become seriously well versed in nutrition, people like Stevens would not be leveling these complaints. Instead he is encouraging people to replace their entire diet with a product that is no more than 6 months old and whose effectiveness has only been measured by anecdotal evidence on a tiny sample size.

The Wright brothers spent years and years studying and perfecting their craft before they let anyone else try it. Perhaps Rhinehart should do the same.
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I've had no issues loading nytimes.com from multiple internet connections and various browsers. So not really down, maybe not updated, but definitely not down. I suppose they had it mostly resolved by time I tried browsing there, though.
You are mixing up the mistakes I made and what 30x500 teaches.

I went against Amy's advice when I picked my audience/product. The process does take care that you'll have the authority to sell what you build. I just wasn't following the process to the point.

That's hardly someone else's fault than mine. In fact, I'm very happy with 30x500 and recommend it to anyone interesting in building an online product business
Pf, Silicon Valley is split by Silicon Valley's wealth. There are a huge amount of people here who have $1m+ net worth, and an even larger number who have moved in since to clean up their code (making far less). That's not even mentioning the even greater number of support staff who make less than the transit workers and cops.

The amount of money the top tier people are making around here should be illegal.
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Can you elaborate on how the buses are taking advantage of public space?
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This seems like a post written by someone who values ideas much more highly than execution. Ultimately if you're actually providing value beyond whatever code you wrote does and executing at a high level you should not be scared of the competition at all.

Ideas do not create value for a customer, execution does. Perhaps it all relates back to the fallacy of passive income and the build it, release it and sit on a beach philosophy that just isn't reality in any competitive business environment.
I like living in a place where my neighbors do not work in tech.

Out of curiosity, why? Where I live, finding real life interactions with people in tech is quite rare, and I wish it were different.

Grass is greener.
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> Glad to see that Space is going to be a commercial business instead of private governments doing everything

Typically, businesses are described as "private," with governments being labeled as 'public.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_sector
This is why God invented EULAs, into which you have a well paid lawyer insert careful verbiage saying that by using this service you agree not to make a clone of it or we'll sue your ass, and then proceed to sue their asses. I'm betting that most of the clones would shut down rather than pay for ongoing court fees of something that'll be a pretty clear copyright violation (all your UI stuff is copywritten).
Gumbo - A pure-C HTML5 parser.
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This is my question too. How much less secure does it make encryption? Enough to be breakable or not enough to matter?
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> I think it's greatest potential will be in gaming. Imagine casting a spell by using the appropriate arcane hand gestures. Or swinging a sword - it can tell the difference between an overhand and a side cut, and a blocking move.

I've had a Wii, and a Kinect, and gesturing as input got annoying very quickly with both. It's something that just sounds fun, but isn't.

Even with the Nintendo DS, when you'd use a stylus to trace a certain shape to trigger an action, it didn't translate well to sustained gameplay. Though it remained workable longer than with Wii/Kinect gaming. Simple swipes with a stylus or finger (on a screen) continue to work well, whereas even simple arm or hand gestures quickly become annoying and fatiguing.

It turns out that pressing buttons works just fine, and is actually ideal, even if other input methods sound sexier.
> The mind is not -- cannot be -- a source of empirical evidence. Science requires empirical evidence.

Since that's clearly not true of the brain's behavior, you seem to be making a claim that the mind is supernatural. Is that your position?