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When I read pieces like this, I'm reminded of a Cringely article (http://www.cringely.com/2009/02/the-bentonville-mafia/). To wit, on the subject of Microsoft stores:

Why even do it, then? Why have these stores?

Propaganda.

Phil Schiller of Apple made the point back in January
when he explained that Apple stores had 400,000 visitors
per day or the equivalent of 20 Macworld shows EVERY DAY.
Microsoft wants the same thing. They want to bypass the
press machine that they feel has tainted users against
Windows Vista, making sure the same thing doesn’t happen
to Windows 7.

If Microsoft can achieve that one goal – just that one –
then the Microsoft stores will have been worth doing even
if they never have a dollar of retail sales.

Vista failed partially because of poor development (and all the other usual reasons proclaimed a thousandfold), but also because Microsoft lost control of its perception to bloggers. The pundits were able to set the perception of the software, and they said it was crap. I'm not arguing that it wasn't crap, I'm just saying it was perceived as crap from the get-go by people who'd never tried it.

Not so with Windows 7. After reading Cringely's article I became attuned to signs that Microsoft might be tweaking the perception of the OS through its gloved hands. Not by ghosting outright shills (this failed notoriously with Vista), but through more subtler means.

Like what? Like the perception that the Windows 7 experience on netbooks will be similar to the desktop experience. Although this has never been proclaimed outright (Microsoft said Windows 7 'will be designed to work with' netbooks), the murmur from the great unwashed that I'm getting is that Windows 7 will be the snappy because they've 'sunk the bloat' and made it work on netbooks.

Well hang on a moment and let's see. The only thing of which I'm convinced is that Microsoft has done a far better job of managing the perception of Windows 7 this time around, and I expect to see more of these types of articles ('Microsoft has finally become insanely OK again!') leading up to the release of Windows 7. (Please note these are merely my observations and I'm not implying 'mini-microsoft' is a shill, see your doctor if pain persists).
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1.21 gigawatts? 1.21 gigawatts? Great Scott!
This was worth downloading the latest WebKit nightly for. I first tried it in Safari 4.x, and was underwhelmed. I then tried the latest nightly, and was very impressed. This, coupled with hardware acceleration for the 3D transforms, could seriously eat away at the sort of territory owned by flash and silverlight.
For small deployments, you can use "Ad-hoc" distribution - users have to jump through some minor hoops (give you their device UUID, then drag the app file into their iTunes and sync to the iPhone), but it works. It's mainly aimed at distributing copies for testing or reviewing before an app hits the app store, and I think there's a limit to how many copies you can distribute this way (100 different devices? Don't remember 100%, I'd have to look it up).

You can also physically install the app yourself from your development machine if you get their device (again, there might be a limit on the number of devices, since you have to register each one).

As rdouble mentioned, there's also the enterprise program.

And, of course, there are jailbroken devices with third party app "stores". I don't have much experience with these, but jailbroken iPhones are supposed to make up a significant percentage of users - might not be as useful for business use, though.
We are working on a viral video incentive program right now!! The store front widget is a great idea, we did not think of that. Do you mean place the video embed and accompanying t-shirt into a widget to be included on blogs etc? That way the content creator has an easy way to spread the t-shirts as well because they get a cut of each sale! Thank you so much for the input!! I love it!
Awesome. I'm interested to see what you come up with. Shoot me an email at the address in my profile.
No, that's not what I was implying. I'm suggesting that the issue would be brought up less often if feminists did not have significant influence in our society. I can put a positive spin on it if you prefer: Thanks to the work of feminists over the past few decades, women and men in computing know well enough to bring up the issue of sexism in their field on their own.
I definitely agree with this. I tried for several minutes to get it to recognize pi, Pi, product, or coproduct. \oint isn't easy either...

and good luck with /leq ...
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Thanks! We appreciate every bit of constructive criticism. We did make the artwork for a few shirts deliberately big. For example, we wanted We'll Do it Live to really be in your face just like good old Bill. Or do you think we are too bold with all of the shirts? Thanks again for the input Adam!
my answer is neither.
ymmv

Instead of a "a few smaller ones" or "larger start-ups", imo starting with just one startup would be a better idea.

It is easier to do a good job on one startup if you're focusing solely on that startup (especially since your definition of a small startup includes startups that could take a few thousand man-hours).
> In the interest of philosophical discussion... why is maximizing profit using knowledge of consumer behavior "evil" so to speak?

Because people can be deceived. Math is hard. If I were to belive Coding Horror, even Paul Erdos didn't understand the Monty Hall problem.

If you take profit on people's naivety, you're evil. Because every human being is ignorant about something. We're not perfect. We're not always right.

BTW, I'm in favour of gambling, when it's clearly marked as such. You don't get better at Swoopo by playing Swoopo, you only win by not playing it all. To say Swoopo labels itself as a system where luck does not play the main role is deceiveing.
exactly, an embed code that could be placed on blogs, or other sites. It seems like a great angle for everyone.
Hey, i tried the music aggregator - nice I want something like that.
Feedback: It would be great if the the the next song would start playing automatically after the current song. Much like www.hypem.com.
also, maybe there is a way to make the song info not pop up in its own box, but somthing more inline, in the page?

good luck
Even if companies decide to entrust portions of their information to the cloud, the single largest obstacle to integration of the cloud to the datacenter is the problem of identity. In order to effectively integrate the cloud, users have to have the same identity there as in the datacenter. This is, at present, an unsolved problem, at least practically (there are examples of federated identity systems such as Shibboleth, but there is no generally adopted technology).
Your site is very, very visually busy. Can you reduce the clutter? This includes the app itself. Maybe you could widen the content area, encroaching upon the whitespace.
You can't determine ahead of time what the size will be, because projects grow. Most huge companies started out as something much smaller.
Thanks!! an inline in the page is great idea, like growl, that's my new goal.
I actually agree with you, completely. Many times I've wondered why we need this complex, inefficient mess of individual programs doing what a central system could do better.

But nonetheless, for now that's the way things are. Might as well do a good job in the meantime.
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re: Popcorn -

I haven't read the book, but I have helped run a movie theater. The answer, if you're not going to read it, it that popcorn (and the associated food products) is how the theaters make their money. Sure, your ticket price contributes, but it's mostly to cover their constant labor and facilities costs.

If a movie theater schedules a showing, it has to run - doesn't matter if there's 2 or 200 people in the theater at the time. The labor to run the show is scheduled far in advance, and represents a sunk cost to the theater. That cost is seen by theater management as the cost of getting people into the building.

Once they're there, however, they're pretty likely to buy some food, based on the advertising and how the theaters are designed - which is pure profit (the material cost for a large popcorn is about 2 cents). It has incredible margins, and lasts forever (none of the stuff they serve goes bad).

It's similar to how TV works - their core business is selling advertising, and if the cost of business to do that is creating shows that people like, so be it. Put another way, the point of TV shows is to get you in front of your TV so that you'll watch some ads. Likewise, the point of movies is to get you in the building so you'll buy some food.
Does anyone use Azure? It was years behind everyone else when it was introduced, like most Microsoft "technology" and won't Office 2010 just be another version of Office? Isn't Windows7 just Vista "fixed"?

Rather than take steps in the right direction, it sounds like MS tripping over their own feet trying to get a course correction.
I love this cool experimenting that Apple is doing, even though there probably won't ever be widespread real-world use (unless developing specifically for Safari).
Sparkle (http://sparkle.andymatuschak.org/ ) seems to be becoming a de-facto standard on OSX, and I'd say it does a pretty good job when judged against the points in the article.

I think the update-at-shutdown isn't such a great idea, most programs don't need the computer to be restarted after they update.
that's my site.

i'm pretty sure the last idea i proposed on part two would work fairly well. have the script watch bid activity and when it looks like there's only one other user using bidbutler, turn it on and let it spend money. as soon as a third user starts using bidbutler, turn it off to save money and let the other two fight it out. since both users probably won't use the same price ceiling, it should be pretty clear when one user drops out and the other keeps bidding with bidbutler. at that point, turn it back on and repeat until you're the last one using bidbutler.
I forgot all about those stores! Did everyone else? I haven't Googled for it but was that more FUD action by Microsoft?
reading everyone's tasks on hand, i feel like an ant standing in a herd of mammoths.

anyways,I am working thru clojure -using the only book available. reading some code. unlearning OOPS...and trying to make sense of the marsh of doing many things and not accomplishing anything.

in one word - struggling.
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"At a large Yaskawa Electric factory on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, where robots once churned out more robots..."

The singularity has arrived!
Is it too soon for a Polish joke?
I'm also at NYU. Contact me when you are in NYC.
Building a full text search tool for Haiku (http://haiku-os.org). Fun times :)
I basically did the same thing, but it went like this:

1. Build my first PC (similar specs as theirs, the important bits anyway)
2. Install Arch Linux and be comfortable with that
3. Curiosity builds, I attempt a Hackintosh install and am greeted with everything but audio working.
4. Back to arch for a few months.
5. iAtkos v7 came out a little while ago, I tried it, and it worked flawlessly. I am now running 10.5.7 as my main OS. Woo.

(Side-rant: I have to use a codeblock for a list? Seriously? For such a technical site this place sure isn't pretty when it comes to functionality and overall completeness. It's like someone started working on it, forgot about it, and people are using it without the creator knowing about it.)

So, while this may be a "How to make a Hackintosh" post, it is actually more helpful as the hardware they mention is hardware that did not work properly in the past.

My installation and setup was much less difficult than theirs, though, I just had to select NVEnabler and the GT200 video drivers and everything worked.
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Cringely: Chrome vs. Bing vs. You and Me
Chrome will be getting this too when they update their WebKit tree.
"What kind of pace are you setting yourself?"

I am working "flat out", but it doesn't really feel like "work", though some proofs are taking longer than I'd like. More like when started to program when I was about 10 years old and didn't have to worry about things like making a living and so on. I guess this is what working for a ycombinator startup feels like minus the revenue related stresses.

"I'm testing the tip I heard somewhere that instead of doing huge chunks and then forget about your goals for a while, it's better to do a bit every day."

Even better might be to work a lot every day and not break off. I once asked a (top notch) musician about whether it was better to practice only a little every day, or "woodshed" in huge chunks, he replied the best way was to have both quantity and quality, but if that is not possible have high quality and regularity, rather than a huge effort followed by a vaccum. I suspect that might be advisable to programming skill upgrades as well.

So yes I am "working" 10-12 hours a day, but I am not forcing myself to do anything and don't feel stressed. It is just that without the "distraction" of consulting etc, I am able to work uninterruptedly. I keep the guitar nearby, to play an etude or noodle around when I need a break.I also work out every day. I suspect this is not a sustainable (over years, say) pace, but so far so good. we'll see how it evolves.
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The unfortunate part of this is exactly as you say--you first tried it in a bleeding-edge version of Safari, and it wasn't good until you updated to the latest nightly build.

That doesn't bode well for performance in other browsers like Firefox--let alone IE.
Been working on Wingify (http://www.wingify.com/), a behavioral targeting, real time analytics and website optimization software. Lots of learning on the way: Design of Experiments, Tokyo Cabinet, Distributed System Wide Job Queue, Scaling, etc. etc.

Aim is to make best on site measurement and targeting app ever!
I've done this before profitably. I ended up leaving the market in frustration. I can give you one piece of advice, don't deal with club owners. They are the scum of the earth.

Owners of night clubs don't get into the business for profit, but rather for lifestyle. Your fancy code will just be seen as "huh it lights some shit up".

If you can put yourself above dealing with individual owners, more power to you.
The ear trainer is very cool.

I think it might benefit from a simpler interface, and/or making it more obvious where I should look first. I wasn't paying much attention when I first checked it out and I thought I was supposed to hit the piano keys to answer the questions. Then I read that I could hit Replay, but I didn't see the Replay button, so I just hit Play. This changed the interval, which I thought was the intended behavior and didn't like that. Then later I saw there's a Repeat button, and then I saw the song answer choices.

If I were you, I'd do something like:

-Make the Song Answer Choice buttons bigger and/or brighter.

-Bring the Play and Repeat buttons closer to the answer choices and the piano.

-Change the instruction to click "Replay" to be consistent with the word "Repeat" (or change "Repeat" to "Replay").

-Hide the statistics, songs and other buttons from the main interface; instead, have them accessible with Show/Hide buttons or tabs.

I know there's a tutorial video, but I think you could still alter the interface to make it easier for people who don't want to watch videos (for example: me. I'm on a relatively slow connection right now and YouTube videos take ages to buffer.).

You might also like to grab random people, put them in front of it, and watch what they do, see what confuses them, etc.

I think it could be really successful! Maybe post it to Hacker News separately as a "review my app" kind of post.
If you measure the size of a startup by time to public beta, then you are making a fundamental mistake. The thing is, before you go public, you can spend as much or as little time as you want, but once you are public and people actually star using your stuff, you will have to continuously iterate and refine your stuff. So I would say the majority of the work comes AFTER you go public, and hence time to public beta should not be your criteria for determining the size.

Having said that, it is always better to do stuff one thing at a time. It ensures that a. you don't get swamped, and b. your full attention goes towards the one thing you're working on.
i actually worked at be, back in the day, before they went out of business. i've since moved on to macosx, but beos was pretty cool for that time period.
Works in Chrome too!

(Version 3.0.192.0 on mac, in case you were wondering)
To clarify, it wasn't performance that left me wanting. It was still a usable Flickr browser. It just didn't live up to the headline until I tried the nightly. In other words: it degraded well, and this is actually a terrific validation of the extensibility built into the CSS spec. This isn't like the old days where you couldn't log into your online banking without IE. So I disagree: it bodes quite well, IMO.
As classic as it is, I don't feel like voting up something that has not been developed for the past 12 years.
Whatever you do Russ, if you make a switch, don't switch to another instance of startup+dayjob. I strongly believe it is that which is killing you. I have been doing that for a while and I constantly feel like I am cheating on one or more of my commitments in life. I used to do 80 hour weeks at my startup job too but it wasn't half as stressful as this is. Now I work 7 days a week. Had it no been for a super understanding wife (who works with me on weekends!) I'd be nowhere. There are other complications for me in switching to doing the startup full time, but I am switching as soon as I can.

So assuming you take that advice, your choices are full time job at a startup or your own startup in Atlanta vs full time job at a startup or your own startup in the bay area. In the bay area you'll get surfing and a higher chance of funding - which, while not the same thing as success as @apinstein pointed out, is certainly a step in that direction.

My advice to you is to switch to the bay area. Work wise, doing a job at a very early stage startup vs doing a startup will entail the same number of hours - what to do is up to your appetite for risk right now but at least you'll be at a place where you can be fit doing something that is fun and if/when you start a startup - get funding for it. If you work at slightly more established startup (50-100) employees, it will likely be closer to 60 hrs/weeks

Having said that, all of us here won't be happy to lose you to CA...
LaTeX is a typesetting program (related to TeX which was made by Knuth). Its quite popular in academia (sciences at least) because it handles equations really well.

Its analogous to a markup language in that it is not a WYSIWYG typesetting program.
"On top of that the government inflates the currency every year by 3-5%" Do you mean the inflation? Is so, this is more around 2%, and not directed by the government.
Why do you think that pouring half a billion dollars into anti-aging research would give a good chance of accomplishing something in that field?

Spending tons of money guarantees only one thing -- spending money.

If there were promising results in anti-aging research -- savvy investors would be heavily investing into that field.
But they don't, because savvy investors understand that it's not practical at this point, even considering HUGE demand for anti-aging technology.
No, but it is too soon for an "Is it too soon for a Polish joke?" joke.
You nailed it with Project 2. Any chance we can get a Playlist feature (unless its there and I cannot see it)
How on earth could that have possibly worked?
I've got a related question, by the way:

Would it be possible to create an IE plugin to render a page using WebKit? Has anyone attempted this?
Sadly, he probably did them a favor in the long run. Gaping hole in transit security.
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This analysis is sorely lacking perspective. I could pick on a bunch of things but I'll just choose one to make my point.

Cringely's assertion that Google should fear making Google search not work on Windows PCs is ludicrous. Period. Anyone who seriously thinks any broadly successful (public) company would pull a stunt like that and piss off the vast bulk of their users has lost touch with reality.
I'm quite familiar with club owners, and I'm well aware that they have no idea why lighting control matters[0] even if it's explained to them in painful detail. I'm honestly not sure how best to go about marketing such a product. I suspect I'll do better to market directly to people who will be using the product and make them handle selling it to club owners.

What was your product?

[0] I'm not sure if it actually does matter in the sense of making an event more popular, which matters to both profit and lifestyle oriented owners. It can make a huge difference with a live band, but a lot of times it's below the audience's conscious awareness.
How much time it took you to think about this question? 1 hour? A day if we count an event that happened today? A year, since you've decided to follow a certain path? A whole life maybe, if you think everything you did and everything you are lead to this question?

The same questions can be applied to your startup(s). Doesn't matter if you already put, or is planning to put, 5, 50, 500 or 5000 hours.

A 5 hour project can become a lifetime of adventure. It isn't about how much time you give, but how. An hour of a plumber is cheaper than an hour of a lawyer.

Don't get me wrong, hard work does pay off. But your output (the result of your work), is NOT measured by your clients perception of how much time you spent on it.

I've tried to search for a joke that would explain my point but couldn't find it to copy and paste. It goes like this:

A company is having problem with a machine. They call someone who asks for 100 dollars and spend one hour trying to solve its problem, but is doesn't go well. Then they call someone who asks for 200 and spend three hours trying to fix the machine, but is also doesn't work. Then they call someone who asks for 50000 dollars and spend five minutes, just to flip four switches, but who got the machine working.

Angry, the company demands an explanation for the expensive bill, and receives this reply:

Time on the machine: $10

Knowing what switch to flip: 49990

And that's what you want to work on. Not on something that gives return on the time you spent on (altough it doesn't matter, it'll probably be high) but on what your knowledge is most valued at.
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(this is a followup to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=676480)
I don't see how you came up with the conclusion about investing into cryonics.
If person A offered me blue pill for $1000 and I refused [because I don't see any proof] -- does it mean that I have to accept next offer for the red pill [which also have no proof] whatsoever?