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I feel similarly. But I worry that I'll wake up one morning and be 50, not having stopped feeling that way.
Once you get past the initial 2 years of classes, grad school (PhD) is the exact opposite: virtually no interruptions, with vast blocks of time to manage as you will. I often go a few days without having a single interruption -- no meetings, no phone calls, no other annoying tasks to break my concentration.

This is one of the greatest things about grad school, and I think unique among most professions -- I'll miss it once I graduate and have to find a "real" job.
There are several good reasons for this ...

One of which being evidenced by the comments thus far; eight out of nine comments (including my own) at the time of this posting are navel-gazing about the headline rather than commenting on the merits of the company. :)
Not trying to be snarky, but your comment made me curious. I must have missed these discussions.

Googling around, I couldn't find anything as official as "HN policy" Got a link?

I would imagine companies could identify themselves as any dang thing they wanted to, right? I mean, I agree with the ideas expressed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550351, but the idea of making some kind of policy seems a bit much -- at least to me.
It's also in the guidelines:

In titles, please don't describe things by their relation to YC unless they're actually associated with YC.
Thanks. I'll do that. Also two recent posts, one by biztools http://biztools.pbworks.com/, the other Getting Real by 37 Signal were helpful. And I realize that "framing the question properly" usually leads to a better understanding.
Apple could make searching the store return the best match "per company". Doesn't help Apple with the review process, but it might be slightly harder for somebody to hurt the user experience...would have to incorporate dozens of companies rather than just submitting 900 apps.
The main takeaway from this is that anything you simply cannot afford to lose should be locked up, either in the bank or in a safe that a burglar can't feasibly breach or carry away. It'll take a burglar a lot less time to toss your entire house and find damn near anything you've hidden than it will for him to breach a serious safe.

The problems with a safe are that it's expensive to set up and, as the article says, the frustration it inflicts on the burglar won't put him in a mood to keep your place tidy.
I'm surprised such basic errors in math made it past any editors.

Khalid Shaikh ... [has] published 943 applications ... . That’s roughly 5 apps a day, every day, for 250 days.

(5 apps per day) * (250 days) = 1,250 apps.

943 applications is roughly 4 apps a day, every day, for 250 days. Or 5 apps a day, every day, for 190 days.
I know the feeling. But I also try hard to rein myself in -- isn't it a trap man startups fall into, over-engineering stuff that does not matter?
doctest comes with Python. You paste from REPL sessions into doccomments, and use a little utility function to automatically find/run them.

It's not as useful as you'd think -- the only way to structure the tests is by the class or function the comment is on, and you have to go out of your way to avoid default __repr__ returns of the form "<object foo at 0xADDRESS>", as the expected response handling is ANAL.
Does it support github? Does it support osx? If not then it's probably irrelevant to half the people on here. I might be able to figure this out for myself, but I won't enter my email address on a site with no privacy policy in order to download a beta that may/may not work.
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How is this different from having version control away from my work computer ?

I never have more then a day or twos work on my computer, so the most i can loose is a days work -- hardly seems worth having extra backup software for that case.
It's catching on, the gov spend millions on it. There's a lot of anti-English [people] sentiment which feeds into not speaking English (just because of the name of the language rolls-eyes). Gov jobs require it, despite not needing it. Middle classes use it to get kids into Welsh school and away from the poor performers and chav-y types.

There are more daily Urdu and Mandarin speakers in the city I live in than Welsh speakers. Indeed, I work in a store and the only welsh language I hear is from educators speaking to their kids.

It's probably the thing that would/will push me to move or seek alternative education (eg home-ed). I don't see Welsh language as being important enough to be a part of every school lesson.
As an alternative to iMacros, Selenium will let you do the same thing- and you can script it from Python [or Perl, or Java, etc].
The first discussion I find via searchyc is http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47078; but I recall there being several threads at around the same time.
It was insurance -- so it was still valuable, because the outcome wasn't known in advance.
In this case that's probably more important; what were the chances of the thing being dropped if he hdan't turned up in person to contest it?
I just don't get it. How is this different and/or better than standard svn/git types systems?
Could you put the minimum requirements (especially OS) on the download page?
Yeah, because MD5 and Blowfish are just the same.
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Curious as to your answer: why is it sad? Surely if the kids speak fluent Spanish instead of Welsh then they can now (in their first language) communicate with far more people in the world. That's got to be better for cultural exchange, social mobility, access to services, business, etc., no? I can see an argument about losing some of the rich tradition, but the world moves on.
I go into situation A with expected reward 100. I receive reward 100.

Yes - I might have gotten reward 100 by going into the situation with expected reward -12 .. but that would be a dumb thing to do.

That is the nature of acting intelligently under uncertainty - you assume things that might not be true (but probably are).
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You know...just because you were rejected once doesn't mean you're permanently rejected from YC. You can apply multiple times.

IMHO you would have been much better off launching with a title describing what you do. If you prove to be a success within the HN community (and beyond), your chances of getting in to YC the next time are much higher.

Besides, by actually launching you're showing (not telling) perseverance, execution and a willingness to listen to feedback. Don't ruin it.
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Since discovering MacVim, have totally switched back over from TextMate.

Especially since I upgraded to Ruby 1.9 and many bundle actions no longer work in TextMate.

MacVim won me over (as I never really totally departed from Vi/Vim) as with MacVim, now I can have (a) full color color schemes (never could get more than 8/16 colors on OSX terminal session), (b) fullscreen (no menu bar, dock) editing, (c) OS X hotkeys (i.e, Cmd-W, Cmd-O, Cmd-N, etc.…) and (d) printing (which is fubared in TextMate)
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> From what I understand you will be quite left-out of society in most of US if you don't go to church. Here in Sweden, as a member of church, you can have funerals, marriages and baptising at church, but the church will never really bother you to come to the Sunday service.

Not really. I don't. Maybe you're talking about people that belong to a particular church being pressured into regular attendance? But I belong to no church and even when I have in the past the only times I went regularly were when I was forced to as a child.

{edit} Maybe I've just managed to avoid areas like this but I've lived in the Detroit, Portland and Toronto (Canada, which I guess doesn't count). {/edit}
Eh. Nobody is forcing you to put up with the iPhone, the fact remains that iPhone has created an experience that is compelling for customers; and that for all it's shortcomings is better than most of the competition at getting end users to part with money for software.
I coined the following inversion to highlight the inherently manipulative use of the no-I-in-team saw:

There may be no 'I' in 'team,' but you can't spell 'team' without 'me.'

Am I the only one who sees the no-I-in-team chestnut as obviously manipulative?

Not to mention, there was a great article about solo entrepreneurs on HN a while ago that, I think, is something of an existence counter-proof of this article.
Download is a Windows .exe so I can't tell what it does. What I can tell is that it doesn't "Works with any IDE or code editor".
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In Firefox, I can only see the first two columns of the comparison that makes up the bulk of this article. This article in unusable to me.

They are using the default drupal theme, which doesn't normally do this sort of thing. My guess is they are using a WYSIWYG editor that makes some bad choices about css.
What, exactly, does this have over any modern VCS? The website probably needs to be super-clear about this.
Apple would make iPhone developers very happy with this change to the app store
In the App store app, have it start up with an app selected at random.

Having more apps succeed means that users would benefit also, since they would be aware of more quality apps.
Usually people don't customize the 'core' bindings/functionality. It's usually about complementing it with things that make your life easier.
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That list of links should be marked-up as such, say a UL.

Oh, and this doesn't work with ie6.
What I'm hearing from these comments is that there is not enough product information for a technical audience. It's possible that you are marketing to a group that does not want the same product information as us, but it's not clear. Are you marketing version control to non-savvy users?
a heavily lawyer-bound society

'Litigious' is the word here.

And no, you're not the only one wondering who neurotypical people survive.
I love the Wikipedia page. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_inkblot_test)

Check out the "Tester Projection" and "Validity" sections - it's a battleground of fact and counterfact, backed up by different references, each sentence disagreeing with the previous one.

Wikipedia was born to do this - it's why something like Britannica can never truly be relevant again. Thanks for posting it.
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Might not be the worst suggestion in the world. After all, the goal is to help the cream rise to the top, yes? We don't really need to know how many votes the top has for that to happen...
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Sounds like the burglars should pass out leaflets along this line...

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How to Ensure a Positive Burglary for you and your Felon!

Remember, your burglar is a hardworking entrepreneur in a high-stress field. In order to make your burglary as efficient as possible for the burglar and minimize the unavoidable mess to your premises, keep these helpful tips in mind:

1) Provide a means of entry which does not involve expensive and possible dangerous breakage. Many burglars and homeowners are needlessly injured each year when untempered windows must be broken to gain entry. Windowless doors seem ideal, but the damage to the jam when forced is expensive for you and they can be hard on the burglar's shoulder. Consider replacing the pane nearest your doorknob with an easily replaceable tempered pane and label it as break-safe.

2) Though your home may be familiar to you, it is a new and possibly dangerous environment for your burglar. Please leave some lights on. Lights in the windows are best since they illuminate the work area while also blinding potential witnesses.

3) Your burglar probably has a full schedule of felonies, please respect his time. Everyone keeps valuables, please keep them in one of the 12 well known and documented "hiding" places to minimize search time and also keep the mess to a minimum.

4) Odds are your burglar has a substance abuse problem. You may wish to keep your stash someplace other than the bathroom, cereal boxes, or refrigerator to avoid unnecessarily fueling his addiction.

Thank you for ensuring a successful burglary experience for us all.
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See above for a discription of the product.

And I'm not sure why they rejected me, but I can think of a few reasons:

1. My company is just one person.

They usually don't fund companies that have one founder.

2. My software doesn't run on the web.

This is mainly because IDEs do not run on the web and my software needs to live on your machine in order to pick up your changes while you work. Most of the companies they fund write web software.

3. My software only runs on windows.

This is all just speculation because I really don't know why.
I keep my money in the bank. Am I missing something here?

(The only thing I buy with cash is beer at the pub.)
Wow look at the number of references. This is a great example of controversy being a source of thoroughness in an open system like Wikipedia.
I do the same but I usually end up writing the tests in order to understand their code. "Is this input allowed to be null? Hmmm... write a test with it null. Ouch! let's add foo may not be null to the documentation ..."
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It doesn't support OS X. Our privacy policy is simple:

We won't send you spam, and we sell your email address.

We only want your email so that we can yell you when the release version is ready. I will add that to the site tonight. It should be up tonmorow.

Thanks for the feedback.
I agree that it's easier to up-vote someone you agree with. That's part of the reason I posted this question. To me, it's akin to the whole "do a good turn daily" idea. It's not that holding the door open for someone is hard, but that it's so easy to just walk through and not look back. (Though, I think entertaining the thoughts of someone you're disinclined to agree with does more good than holding open doors.)

As for examples, I must admit I didn't queue up links in preparation. A quick browse of the front page turns up this one, though:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739752

Sure, the initial commenter was using crude language, but his comment spurred a discussion that went at least 7 levels deep and expressed a strong yet debatable position.

(Edit From the same post, a bit further up, and illustrates the point a bit better I think: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=740067)
I guess the challange is to enter a precise time using a computer, and make it as easy as writing an imprecise time on paper.

I don't know where to go from there. On paper, you can assume than a time without a timezone is in localtime. That is fine, since it takes effort to move paper from one timezone to another. If you know the paper is from a different timezone, you might switch your interpretation, even without the timezone stated explicilty.
I think replies to my own comments are actually easier to up-vote than comments as I'm browsing them. Generally, my rule is that if you reply to me and tell me something new (i.e. not just agreeing), you get an up-vote. If I'm replying to you, you (and usually everyone above you) almost always get an up-vote. After all, you got me to reply (something I don't do with very high frequency).
We've kicked this one around since the day HN went public.

Single-dimension voting is broken. It's a known bug. Given a single way to respond, users are going to vote emotions over substance on a ratio of something like 20:1.

Nobody has a solution that is easy to use.

Film at Eleven.
I didn't know this (about the rules). I'll see if I can change the title.
Which are you more likely to click on and/or vote for?

Option A) The end of twitter as we know it
or
Option B) Twitter gets another sponsored tweets service

My guess is option A.
I was thinking the same thing. At any given moment the total sum of cash in my own home is about $20. I don't use cash for anything.
It looks some one beat me to the punch.

Sorry.
Previously discussed on HN:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=738906

By the way, it's a very subtle difference in the URL that wasn't picked up by the duplicate submission detector. Watch for that on submissions from the BBC, which is a good source that many HN readers read.
It's not better than.

It's an add on. It helps you in between checkins.

Typically you checkin a "batch" of work when it's done, like at the end of the day. This protects you automatically, even if you forget to checkin.
It seems to me that the poorer the neighborhood the more likely it is to be _more_ money in the apartment. Why would I need cash if I have a working credit card ?
Do most burglars really assume people store cash in the home in the first place?

It makes me wonder if I'm missing something really basic about how most people organize their finances and homes.
Ditto, though now I'm thinking of stashing $250 in a drawer or something to hopefully dissuade any burglar for trashing my place trying to find the non-existent hidden cash.
No. I'm marketing to programmers. I'll add more info to the site.
He does reveal quite a bit about his own biases, but he walked away with the realization that the things he would criticize most about America are also what make America possible.
This is a thread that's reflected extremely well in Charles Stross's Accelerando. It took me a couple of readings of the novel to really make the connection between intelligent corporations in the story and what's actually happening in the real world.
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Exactly. I want :w and such to always do what they do. But I also want my assorted helper macros and mappings so I can avoid typing boilerplate code and so on.

NetBeans has a vi plugin, which isn't bad, but I'm forever trying to do things that are only defined in my resource files and plugins, so I end up editing code in vi and using NetBeans for specific tasks (GUI editing, usually).
When I read "The Lord of the Rings" for the first time as a kid, I remember reading the part where Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli ran "for two days and nights" (or something like that) chasing after the hobbits that had been taken by the orcs.

I thought to myself, "Two days, that doesn't sound too bad. I think I could do that." It seemed reasonable at the time.
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By far, the most important statement (although it was all quite interesting) was this: "There's nothing better than to have sophistocated users. And conversely, it's dangerous to build a product for giant corporations or, god help you, for the defense department, because then the stupidity of your customer will make you stupid. You want to build a product for clever, impoverished outsiders."

Gives me hope that they'll see that in my startup's YC application.
In my experience, having too many ideas can be as much trouble as not having any. Write them down (an idea journal) to get them out of your skull, put them away for that inevitable day in the bleak future when the ideas start to dry up, and meanwhile look for the one that you feel will succeed and you can build, and have fun building it, and when you think you have that one, stop thinking about it before you talk yourself out of it and go make it happen.
I was expecting something along the lines of "A Rorschach Cheat Sheet: Literary Allusions in Watchmen" (or something). Interesting nonetheless. Do optometrists get upset with the color-blindness tests that are online? People could do the same with them (memorize them for the test).
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Running a consulting firm around Hadoop and related technologies makes a lot of sense, but taking VC funding to do so is surprising, IMHO (Cloudera are backed by Accel and Greylock). A consulting firm has relatively small capital requirements, but is fundamentally less scalable than a "product" firm: to make 2x revenue, you need ~2x the staff. I'm curious to see whether they'll be able to achieve the sort of returns that a typical VC expects if they stick to a purely-consulting business model.

Cloudera have taken ~$11M in VC funding so far[1]; is there really ~$110M in profit to be made off Hadoop consulting, training and support in the medium term? I wonder.

One possibility is that they're using consulting to build revenue and mindshare in the short-term, and using the capital they've raised to launch something more substantial in the longer-term (say, running their own cloud/hosted Hadoop service).

[1] http://ostatic.com/blog/hadoop-centric-cloudera-gets-6-milli...
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Is that what you meant to write?
Boy does that graph not justify that headline. Or any headline at all, actually.
Their job is more selling news than reporting it.
No it isn't, this is for pre-order. And it's been available for pre-order for quite some time, I think.
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I'm not sure what advantages a language in this form would have. Why bother mandating that it be stored like this in some way? Storing programs as text like we do now would enable a tool to display code just as you suggest, just check out the many code-to-html tools that are available.

I'm also not sure why I'd care that my tool parses the code to do those things for me, nor why having my brain parse the code matters in particular. If you're arguing for Lisp's "code as AST" syntax, well, that's fine by me, but I don't think it's a neccesity. Macros work best with sexps, it's true, but I've never found, say, Ruby's metaprogramming to be wanting for Lisp-style macros.

Also, I'm firmly against the One True Language way of thinking. See, for instance, Python vs. Ruby as a great example of why nobody will ever be happy with One Language to Rule Them All. They're so close to each other, yet their small differences cause so much argument between the two camps.
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Accelerando is one of the strangest books I ever read.

The 'rapture of the nerds' is a theme worth exploring (the singularity), but I've never given it much credit. After reading accelerando I'm not so sure anymore.

It certainly is food for thought. Given the pace of progress in technology in the last 30 years or so I'm pretty ambivalent about how fast it goes. Sure, there is lots of movement but I don't see anything that is really mindblowingly new. Networks existed, the internet is already decades old.

We're able to communicate faster and better, the cost of a bit has decreased further and further.

But we are not much closer to for instance real AI than we were 30 years ago (only then we were much more optimistic that we'd have it in 30 years).
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He claims " 54% of the 45M devices are in the US which means ~ 25M devices. The US has about 300M people. That means about 8% of the general American population has one of these devices."

However, this doesn't take in account broken phones or people upgrading iphones (and then not cycling the old phone back into the market place).

I would guess this number is 30% higher than it should be, at least.
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Voted up for the video.
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