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Here are some of my thoughts, obviously different things apply to different people:

1) The Ramen-way works only for people who are fresh out of college or at least are still with no liabilities. This doesn't work for people who have families, mortgage etc. In this case the YC-type funding just doesn't cut it. I would love to be proved wrong here with example(s) of YC company founders, since that might give me motivation.

2) Most poeple need some validation of their ideas, especially if they have more than one. Ideally it would be nice if YC, or someone else, can just help people validate their ideas and provide input, and might even take a small stake just for that service. Additional guidance along the way would be awesome.

3) How to form a team? OK, I'm committed in my idea and my idea is validated, where do I find at least 1-2 additional people I need. This is true especially since not everyone is an expert in all the technologies. Attending Meetups etc. is a way, hopefully there are others.

A lot of things around the cloud and hosting had really reduced the cost of an initial launch, but some of the above bottlenecks still stay, at least IMO.
Only discovered HN less than a month ago and I think it's one of the most interesting news agregator at this moment.

Yes, I do promote what I write and I believe it's ok to do it, as long as I believe in what I write. You can like it or not, of course, that's the beauty of it. But as long as I don't spam - and I saw some contributors posting several links per day, while I kept my posting under 1 link per day - I think it's ok.

If I did something wrong, or outside HN policy, please let me know, I'm not here to do more bad than good.

Thanks.
"...we are pleased to note that there were no fatalities due to programmer-on-programmer violence..."

Good thing you used a framework. Who knows what would have happened if you didn't.
didn't someone on HN create a similar app for NYC?
At least the social security system is not a secret, and it doesn't lure people into the system by promising unbelievably high profits.
The differences between social security and savings accounts and a ponzi scheme are:

Truth - we all know how social security works and what bank runs are.

Rate of return - low interest on savings accounts and not much from social security.

Ponzi schemes tend to promise well above average returns and almost never explain how those returns are generated.
That was certainly the case here, the returns were phenomenal and thought to be from brilliant trading strategies.
Do you see the text on my blog bold? It's a different font, but it's not bold for sure... What browser / platform are you on? Thanks.
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not everyone is an entrepreneur
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I'm fairly confident that I not in the top 50%-30% that actually makes it work (for varying definitions of "work"). I've seen too many people who make me feel like a lackadaisical moron fail at start-upping.
But OpenBSD does it on a six month basis. I am wondering if it is more the degree of organization and planning rather than the size of the project.
I don't want to be that "this would take a weekend!" guy, but 27,000 hours? There must be some hidden complexity somewhere. Excited to try out the product though, sounds like a great idea.
OT:

I knew it!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=727427

JRuby guys quit on Oracle and went with EngineYard. Yeah, because they knew they only sponsored the JSR for dynamic languages. I too would quit my day job if Sun was customizing the JVM to support my compiler better.

[Edit: s/ibm/oracle/]
Yes, it's highly subjective, for me it works, it gives some contrast. People tend to be really "polarized" around this design pattern, with a 50/50 split... I guess I'm on the "use it" 50 percent :-)
and what if something interesting happens in the line of sight only visible to the eye you just blinked with?

if you blink with both eyes, you are sure you missed something, if you only blink with one at the time, you will never know if you missed something.

(and besides only blinking with one eye at the time would look kinda silly :)
So, from my completely layman's reading of this article, here's my take:

All that can be calculated on a Classic Turing-complete Computer can also be calculated on a Quantum Turing-complete Computer, and vice-versa. It will just take longer on a Classic Computer (sometimes a LOT longer).

Is this correct?
We (or at least I) also think of it as leverage. We also have a very strong 80/20 ethic, so we don't have particular qualms about using the leverage that this debt can provide.

We don't do anything magical; there is no secret sauce, noe no spreadsheets with formulae or anything fancy; it's literally just a series of wiki articles and Jira tickets with issue type "Debt" so we can easily find the documented debt and make plans when/whether to retire it.

So the concrete formal mechanism is "use your bug tracking system and flag them somehow so you can filter/search for them."

I will add some additional links that our top-level debt page references as useful:

http://chrissterling.gettingagile.com/2008/10/20/managing-so...

http://enterprisearchitect.typepad.com/ea/2008/10/watch-your...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqeJFYwnkjE (Video: Ward Cunningham on technical debt)
This has been a big deal around the net as well as HN recently. Your sarcasm is both inappropriate as well as indicative of ignorance. Parent should be upvoted despite the superfluous comment of "didn't have time to read the source", because at first, I didn't perceive why this was useful.
All that work on the backend and, sadly, the lack of time put into the landing page will make it all for naught.

* 7 steps? Why would I want to be involved in something that complex? 3-4 steps max.

* 11 benefits? I'm not going to read or be able to process all that. 3 max, give me something I can quickly understand and tell friends about.

* That screenshot has got to go. Looks amateur at best.
If you want to write well in any medium, revise, revise, revise, revise, and revise again. You may find this whittles your "content" down to nothing. This is a feature, not a bug.
I have a mortgage and want a family, the insecurity is too high.

When I was younger I didn't have the skills and/or energy as I was acquiring knowledge and experience.

Now I'm in a position to do something with those attributes: it has to be a spare time effort - which doesn't seem to be enough.
Thank god for Instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com)! That's one long article that will make for fine, fine nerdy subway reading.
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Now that is really an interesting question.

I wonder if blinking with one eye would be disruptive to the sterovision that is going on. An interesting test would be to train oneself to blink one eye at a time.
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I seriously doubt that OpenBSD has as many packages, with as much documentation, localization, on as many platforms as debian does. Debian is HUGE; and don't you forget the million other more specialized debianish distros that feed off of it.
Well, mr. Makram is on the record now, let's see if he delivers.

From elements of a rat brain to a functioning artificial human brain seems to be quite a step in only 10 years, but who knows. If you don't aim high you'll never hit anything.
You still have to remember your password. The colors alone will not get you in. Rather, they merely help you know whether you mistyped it before you submit.

I'm not arguing the merits of this concept; I'm just clarifying its intent. There has been a recent wave of design fury over the HTML password input field (the one that obscures keystrokes with dots) Sites with a bajillion users have become concerned about the small percentage of users who get frustrated by failed login attempts and leave. Wanting to avoid turning users away, they have started to experiment with ways to make the field more usable.

Perhaps user disengagement resulting from input type="password", for some, translates to a measurable amount of money. Or maybe it's just a matter of trying to reduce support costs from the volume of "I can't log in" calls.

Either way, it's an interesting problem for UI design specialists.
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Example of a nearly perfect product demo.
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I find the folder "system_web" in my root with code, maybe its create the code
Ugh, that sounds like an awful experience.
"The Results:

We didn’t reach the beta milestone completely, but we were able to release a limited beta version of the site. We are still developing some of LetMeGo’s traveler-focused features.

We found that the productivity of the team was also three times higher than usual. For those of you familiar with RescueTime, the tool we used, we measure productivity by multiplying average efficiency per week times the tracked time worked per week.

Productivity = Average Efficiency * Work Time

Productivity Working as Usual = 1.22 x 30.9h/week = 37.7/week

Productivity at the LetMeGo Immersion = 1.53 x 73.8h/week = 112.91/week

Ratio: 1:2.99

Given that the productivity and the cost increased side by side, we can then conclude that the biggest benefits is that we saved seven months of development. If it wasn’t for the Immersion, a limited beta of LetMeGo would have not been released yet and the full site would have not been launched until the second quarter of 2010."
Maybe the new contractor was on a much-reduced rate. Hire an experienced developer to do most of the work, don't pay him for the work he's done, then hire a new grad to finish it off?
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sorry. this comment to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=627081
Nothing they can't tweak "over the next few weeks". They're not open yet.
Just do an aptitude install emacs-snapshot if you're on Ubuntu.

(Debian might have that package too, but I'm not sure.)
I want more time with my family not less.

I prefer a steady income.

I'm uncertain whether the expected value of a startup is more than my current income.
It's hard to believe that some carriers actually wanted an exclusivity agreement. It's like they didn't think it through at all. I'm glad Loopt was able to convince them otherwise. That must have been a great feeling, to have changed someone's mind in a high level corporate type of way.
When I was in Driver's Ed, I got told to use 4 or more seconds.
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These are good points. But to be fair, in this case they haven't paid for the work. Should a company have a right to keep IP that it has commissioned and then refused to pay for?
"blueorangepink" works.

I found it by typing in a random password, then using as a password the colors from that password, and repeating until I got the self-referential password. I can't think of a good reason why this should work, though. And you might argue that the third color there is really purple, not pink.

New question: lots of countries have flags which consist of three stripes. Is there a country whose chromahash is its flag?
I don't know if I could do 90 days, but I would like to have that work environment for maybe two weeks. No distractions, and everything else taken care of. Weekends off though.
They were employed by Sun, not IBM, and already worked on JRuby full time. I think this was more about integration into the Ruby community as well as getting a good JRuby deployment option in place at EY, as well as uncertainty over Oracle's acquisition of Sun.

Edit -- Charlie Nutter on jruby-user: "The primary reason for leaving was the high level of uncertainty involved."
The Haskell folks actually recommend you use Emacs for all your editing needs. The Emacs Haskell mode is supposed to be awesome (I've never used it, since I use Vim).

Extending Emacs or Vim to work seamlessly with your programming language is, IMO, a much smarter move than building an IDE from scratch.
Always nagging at the back of mind in these "lists" is..

#51 quite reading online lists of how to improve your life and just do it

:)
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Awesome interview, congrats!! Sam definitely has the substance, he's just getting started.

While the trend with voice may be falling, I actually hate email/txt a lot of times (at least via the phone). I much rather have a phone call and make a decision quickly, rather than going back and forth. Texting annoys me, maybe I'm alone with that opinion.
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I for one know I couldn't have done it if it weren't for socialized (yes I'll use that evil term) medicine here in Canada. Fortunately, I haven't been sick. But I have gone to the doctor a few times over the past few years for routine checkups/physicals. Actually, I did go once when I had a terrible bronchial infection that I just couldn't seem to kick even after a few weeks. My doctor gave me a bunch of free asthma inhalers when she heard I was self-employed. The next year I got a free flu shot and didn't get sick. This was important because had I gotten the flu it would have ended up in a huge amount of lost productivity on the project I was working on and possibly resulted in public failure for the stakeholders involved (we were constantly catching up the whole way). Although to be fair, not getting the flu may have been coincidence as the flu shot prevented a strain that was not prevalent this year. Flu vaccine manufacturers always have to guess which strain they think will be dominant and target it.

The routine physicals have led to me getting back into shape. My doctor also did some blood work and discussed some changes I needed to make in my diet to reduce the risk of developing some conditions that afflict other family members. This is a major benefit of having a family doctor that everyone goes to. When your other family members aren't insured and consequently don't see a doctor, your doctor doesn't have as complete perspective of potential risks to your health. Incidentally, I'm now earning more and contributing more to taxes, so I feel like the money spent on covering my healthcare was a worthwhile investment. And no, I didn't have to wait 6 months for a physical, I waited precisely 9 days for the next schedule window that was convenient for me. The flu shot was a walk-in procedure when I had an empty patch in my schedule.

Healthcare shouldn't only be about tending to urgent matters. Not getting your yearly physical is potentially like having a memory leak. You won't know something is wrong until it's potentially too late and when you do find out, it will be a major dilemma. All too often, even when healthcare costs are covered, people just don't bother going. If you're a startup founder, don't neglect your health, and make sure you take care of your body as well as you would your car.
Is anyone here using this, or have any experience with this site?
A "community site" doesn't repeatedly spam it's members with offers that may or may not be of interest to them, if it intends to retain those members.

But you're right: the tactful thing will be to simply remove HN from my RSS reader, if the justin.tv job postings continue to fill it.
I think I'm too critical of ideas. I'm just not convinced that any old idea can make it - and so many have already been done. I've got the time and the flexibility to be able to do it, but I just haven't settled on an idea.
Cool...now, if only there was a way to scold my dogs for chewing furniture from a distance! :)
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Have not read the article, but to answer the question:

By doing compelling things in your real-life and writing about them in your blog!!
Knowledge that such a thing is possible when I first got out of college. Everything about school directed me to look for a job afterwards. Then finding a job was very easy, decent pay, big company. It wasn't until all these web startups started making it big that it even became a thought that it was possible to do such a thing, and then there is a lack of education about how to start a company.

It's taken a lot of thinking and reading of YN essays to discover that it is possible to start up a web company and that, in fact, I had all of the tools at my disposal coming out of college to do it! I just didn't know it was possible.

Now, I'm working for a late stage startup that has excellent potential and the golden handcuffs are keeping me around until an IPO.
I just check how many dashes on the highway... the distance from the beginning of one "dash" to the beginning of another is 40 feet... So at 70 mph you need at least 5 dashes.

The two-second rule is definitely the bare minimum... At 70mph that's 210 ft/s, and depending on whether the car in front of you can stop faster, that might not be enough distance.
They also spelt his name wrong which seems gratuitous.

My guess is his TED presentation was similar to this one http://seedmagazine.com/designseries/henry-markram.html

It's worth noting that he's attempting to construct physiological simulation (to better understand the biology). His goal isn't to create a AI.
Yeah, ignorance. I read the Jakob Nielsen article and all the responses, don't worry. At least with his proposal, you got a checkbox to enable the feature, and you knew explicitly without having to understand how hashes work that you were giving away your password if you typed it in view of other people.
How are you so focused? What drives this?
neither MS nor Yahoo can beat Google on their own. That is sure. so what is wrong in them trying together? there is at least a chance, however small it is.

its more like merging the strengths of second and third contestants, helping the resultant runner run faster than making a three legged runner.
It's actually easier than Mastermind, you only have to guess one character at a time.
It's Terence Mckenna's Timewave theory (from the 1970s).

Kurzweil was following along after a lot of other people.

Vernor Vinge, for instance, came up with the term Technological Singularity in 1993, Teilhard de Chardin had the Omega Point in 1950, etc.
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I think #1 can be generalized (or re-phrased) to not having enough time/money. In other words, if you sacrifice a day job to take the time to start your startup, you do not have financial stability to support your family. If you keep the day job, however, then you don't have enough time for your startup.

YC-type funding in this case would probably help a little, assuming you have some cushioning elsewhere, e.g. savings, live with family, etc.

Then again, I bet there are probably founders out there that started their project on the side and slowly grew into a startup.
Impressive to put in that kind of hard work for such a long period. I'd be falling asleep at my keyboard after the first month or so.

Also, I wonder how this would stack up against the same thing done on a 'regular' schedule. Of course nobody in their right mind is going to do an 'a/b' test on something like that but it would be interesting to see if this kind of all-out effort really pays off or if there are hidden costs which make it less than what it seems.
Well according to the constructs of the English language and logic, "it can't happen" does actually mean "I believe it is impossible to happen.". (Can't == can not == impossible). Your statement implies the 'scientific context' is bullshit which I certainly do not agree with.

So in your alternative world of logical meaning what does "it can't happen" equate to anyway? Does it simply mean less than 50% probability or what? If you aren't prepared to put an actual mathematical meaning to probabilistic statements then they are worthless. I certainly am and I am prepared to back them up with cash. What about you? Do your statements mean anything or are they just worthless oratory?
I think you answered yourself: stereovision support. The mental context-switch needed to go from stereo to mono to stereo again is probably more expensive than just going from stereo to nothing and back to stereo. I just tried it and closing one eye at a time made me sorta dizy.

(disclaimer: not a trained eyetician ;-)
Love it! Long live the onion!
Stories like this make me think of Haldane quote:

"I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose."
"The Ramen-way works only for people who are fresh out of college or at least are still with no liabilities."

This is simply not true. My wife and I have medical debt and my partner has a family and a mortgage. You just work your 8 hour day job and come home and work another 4 to 6 hours in the evening. It's not a lot of fun -- it took us about a year to get to enough revenue to pay my salary.
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One frustrating reason: I haven't found an idea with a sufficient chance of success to justify my investment.

It's frustrating because I have execution skills (I've launched 'startups' for larger companies), I could fund a small startup without external help and I have access to good design & technical talent. Am I being unreasonably risk averse? Lacking vision? Words of wisdom will be much appreciated!
haha :) That's true in itself too! What I like about lists though is that it does pack some good tips for immediate application. I used to dislike lists, but changed my mind after I started gleaning great insights from them.
I think its a combination of mistakes both in the way the company handled it and a bad contract.

Whether work is "Work For Hire" or not should be in any contract with someone creating code or designs. I personally wouldn't hire someone without stipulating that all code and or designs (this comes up with getting source PSDs a lot) is WFH.
Agreed. I once worked for 37 days straight. (weekends were 6-8 hours a day, weekdays were at least 12) and it is not something I care to repeat.
I was much younger, didn't have a family and was living in a city that I had just moved to and therefore didn't know anyone outside of work. (but I formed some long lasting friendships, a guy I worked with was my best man.)
There's been a recent wave of design fury because Jakob Nielsen wrote his article on unmasking the password field and the bike-shedders of the world decided they had to weigh in with their 'improvements', not because this is any kind of newly urgent problem.
Im a 31 yr old start-upper. I actually started my startup at 27/28ish; it was my first start-up. I was about to buy my first home with money I saved for such, but took the money and started up; stayed living with the parent I moved in with to save money for a house two years prior.

So, it's a huge sacrifice and gamble you take to either lead the quote/unquote normal life or start-up. If you start-up it becomes your life and entire focus. I pretty much dropped off the radar of my friends and devoted all my time and focus on my start-up. The journey it led me on was an awesome one re: attention, publicity and getting funding. Though all that awesome stuff was a great life journey it did not lead me to a healthy business that pays the bills and now I'm back to looking to get into the real world.

My start-up is still active and ppl do use it (just not that many). Though the things I learned from my first attempt and the journey it took me on has taught me a ton. I have the fever to start-up all over again, yet doing so on the side. The gamble was worth it just for the awesome experiences it led me on, but now it's time to get on with life and dream/enjoy the experiences on the side!
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