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This article came off, to me, as an individual quest for self discipline. Unless I missed it, the author doesn't discuss the influence of other people on your attitudes and motivations. One addition that I think would help someone gain more self discipline is to associate with people (in the same field of interest) who have great self discipline.

As an example, I'll point to myself. I am not the most self-disciplined person. I had planned to do a lot of things this past summer which, frankly, I couldn't force myself to do.

However, about a year ago when I went to college as a freshman CS student, I joined my school's gymnastics team. Now, I've been a gymnast for most of my life, and I've generally been a lazy gymnast. When I first started practicing with my new team, though, I was incredibly motivated to attain the skills of my teammates, and to surpass them. Someone who was to become a good friend of mine asked one day during gym, "Why are you working so hard? Take things at your own pace, and you'll make progress before you know it," to which I said, "No, I need to keep working out like this. Otherwise I won't be able to contribute to the team."

Before joining that team, I had only really been working for myself. Men's Gymnastics, prior to college, is incredibly individual. Yes, there are teams, but before college the age range at a normal gym is 5 - 18 years old. There are tons of conflicting levels of maturity and motivation, and it isn't rare that someone will quit halfway through the season. Thing is, before college, this can help you more than it hurts you, because one more competitor is out of the way, making it easier for you to win.

Point is, once I joined my college team, I gained new reasons to continue to train. In college, no one quits mid-season, save for medical reasons and other emergencies. It is unthinkable to quit mid-season. Why? Because there are other people depending on me to do well, so that the team as a whole does well. There are people coming to me with questions and a desire for help, and I feel obligated to assist them and pass on any advice that I have. I feel obligated to be at the same level of skill as my teammates at minimum.

More than that, we keep against each other so that through competition, we will all become better at what we do. If we weren't in a team environment, it wouldn't be possible for us to have even half of the motivation to do well. If we weren't a team, then each of us would walk a lonely path to our goals.

To wrap up, being part of a group or team can have enormous benefits to your self discipline and motivation.
Why is the admin "because" on the blog that supposedly outed _why's identity?
The anonymous blog that suppmosedly outed _why's identity has a user other than the user "whoiswhytheluckystiff" registered as the usernae "because" which is also mysteriously a "project" on his squatted github user's account
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> First, I want to thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to overlook a great opportunity we have for the near future.

Thank YOU. I will be glad to "overlook" your "opportunity".
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According to these sources:

http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/08/bosto...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/16/y-combinator-demo-day-t...

There were only 10 companies launched out of 19 for the summer 2007 round in boston. So it doesn't seem too out of the ordinary for this batch.
I kind of disagree. In a way Startup School is the same thing. I think when you can assure that all the people are really serious about being there (and are also reasonably qualified) it makes for a higher quality event. I would far rather attend Startup2Startup than Lunch 2.0 for example, the quality of the networking is orders of magnitude better.

In the case of looking for people to start a company with I think I would appreciate that the people who are there have been screened by some sort of process.
Why are you so sure he's still alive?

This could easily be his way of saying "don't look for me, I'm gone, not missing". It's sensible when you're as anonymous as he is -- how else are people going to find out you're not coming back? (without the inane drama of a flounce: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Flounce)
I want to believe this, but then I remembered denial is one of the first phases of grief.
'I was just about to write a rant about how insane it is that windows people try so hard to run things that look "native" '

I don't think most Windows users care about looking native, it's more being native (and I don't understand why you put that word in quotes, Win32 / Unix are different APIs). Ie:

* Using Win32 services that your existing tool that monitors Win32 services works for (although you can hack this yourself for Cygwin).

* Logging to the event log, with all the existing filtering and remoting your other apps are using.

* Firing up a object shell with cmdlets for Windows administration rather than a regex-focused one focused on Unix commands.

* APIs available for languages you know, rather than ones you don't.

Imaging someone gave you a Windows app, to run via wine on Unix, that:

* lacked an initscript

* couldn't speak to syslog

* had documentation that assumed you were running powershell, not bash.

* Lacked a Python/Java/C API and provided a .net one instead.

and then ranted about how insane Unix people try so hard to run things that 'look native'.

PS - I'm a Unix guy. But for Windows, I'd use /n software Powershell server. It's a real SSH server for Windows, not someone's MSI wrapped around OpenSSH.

That said, if there was a real Win32 OpenSSH in the future, I'd probably switch to that.
Would you share a little more about yourself? Particularly, Do you already have an idea, If "yes" have you started working on it, Are you willing to share equity with a new contributor, What are your skills, Where are you located...
Well for startup school, there's limited seating, and high profile panel speakers. A founder dating session probably won't even attract 30 people if there's no indication of content.
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i was an employee in a startup. i was one of the original founders but my partner found an investor first, so i ended up on the low end of the totem pole. the problem these idiots made deals amongst each other, then left me to deal with an unpaid bill, for the company, that they, the partners - while I was away dealing with a brother dying in critical care, they let the bill somehow end up in my name - personally. so i have to pay off this bill-it has already gone to civil trial, in my name and the investor who created the bill were sued as a unit. the investor, named Paul, is an attorney, i am not. i made $33,000 in 3 years creating this startup. Paul makes 6 figures and is a tax attorney. i have no money, they wont give me a reference because they let me get sued, and i have to figure out what to do next. is there any where to go to find help to fight this.?
I think that depends on your definition of successful. If you mean make a lot of money, then yes you can do it without passion.

If you mean "waking up with a purpose" successful, then I think passion is a must.
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Seconded. I liked it save for the Cisco advertising as well.
Not really, that letter reads straight like a 419 Scam, complete with the bad english and the obligatory "God Bless". Their mission is to "save lives and create the next standard of living" .. what the hell? Seems like somebody had plenty of practice ripping off churches and thought they might try Mark Cuban next.
Amazing stuff, I probably would have seen it on reddit if I was still reading it.
Addition to my last post: my feelings on this particular issue (the mind-body problem, the soul, experience, or however you want to cast it) are pretty close to Hofstadter's as outlined in I Am A Strange Loop, which is a great read no matter what your stance on the issue (he doesn't take a strong stance either way, but pretty clearly indicates that he thinks it's the computation that's important, not the substrate).

I think there's something very special about perception, and it's a very deep, tricky, and important matter that we don't really understand well enough yet; however, I am agnostic towards any metaphysical details. Even if they do exist (I personally don't think there's any evidence for that anyhow, but...), I don't think there's anything much worth say about them because they are not open to investigation.
I was already digging into Ruby when I found out about _why... but he's definitely a big chunk of the reason I stuck with it for so long, AND served as a good vehicle for evangelizing Ruby to new people...
If you were an east coast startup (or really from outside California) I could see the value, but if you are a startup in the Valley, it does not seem to really make sense. If you can't hustle and make the right connections, then what you are working on probably is not headed in the right direction.
No, they don't have a right to express racist attitudes and thats why if they did they would be dicks.

Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to abuse and offend.
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Seriously?! If search engines had AI, I can see it being cool/innovative. With the current state of search technology, it's a usability disaster.

Problem #1 - language. Is their portfolio page called "portfolio"? Or "companies we've invested in?" Is their contact page called "contact"? Or "Get in touch?" Do they have a blog? Searching for "blog" seems to indicate that they don't-- unless it's called something other than "blog". Search is hard and they are making their users play "guess the right search query" when a scan/browse action would be easier and less error prone.

Problem #2 - scan-ability. So say I AM interest in learning more about their portfolio. Roughly what types of companies do they back (what's the search query to answer that question?)? What have they backed most recently (again, what search query?)? Who works there (a search for partners suggests "Energy (partners)")? Scanning is a huge part of web behavior.

Problem #3 - discoverability. What about what I'm NOT searching for? They have some GREAT content around how to pitch VCs, what ideas are VC-worthy, etc. With a content-free page, there is a 0% chance of me learning about stuff that I didn't know I was looking for.

Problem #4 - SPELLING. Take a look at their partner page (if you can find it). Are there any names there that you might have trouble spelling/searching for if you heard it at a dinner party last night?

We don't have to guess with usability. What they SHOULD have done is write down 5 tasks that people might do at their site and had a few friends run a few informal tests.

I'm willing to turn in my UX designer badge if my guess is wrong and this UI increases task performance speed and reduces errors.

Hrm, as I consider it-- I guess your comment doesn't dispute all that. It probably can be cool, innovative, AND a usability disaster.
The HTC hero is out now in the UK - and there seems to be quite a few iPhone users switching, including myself.
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why hasn't this idea taken off? instead of packing a high end graphics card into a laptop where it is likely irreplaceable I'd rather have a dock for my laptop that includes a bay for a better video card. hardcore gaming at home (with an upgradeable part, low power consumption on the road.
In all seriousness, this is why therapy and medication can seriously help a young person who's addressing difficult issues. When I was working on GNOME, we all knew _why was different. He used to come into #smooth and argue about colors and gradients, and use "beautiful rainbows" as argumentation, rather than progression, style and color theory.

After Reiser and seeing _why in action these last few years, I really think that there is a precedent for a very serious eye to be turned toward mental health in hackers. We spend so much time internalizing, focused into our worlds, that we hardly look outside, even when our colleagues are crying for help.
These things are hardly mutually exclusive. Perhaps harsh for your tastes but being an idiot writing idiot letters is certainly something one should not do in professional and business correspondence. Be concise, write well (and if you can't get help from people who can) As advice, it may be mundane and obvious but it's hardly unclear.

Similar things can be said for his other point - cut the bullshit/fluff. Perhaps we've become so used to filtering it out due to its prevalence that a reminder that it actually tends to have zero informational value is helpful to those sending pitches to people who put some value on their time.

Just as a random example, I loaded up the Rails front page and was greeted by the following [annotated]:

"Web development that doesn't hurt. [ok catchy tagline]

Ruby on Rails is an open source web framework [actual information]

that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity [are any web frameworks optimized for unsustainable productivity or programmer misery? Fluff]

It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration [Fluff]"

Then you get the following quote, also essentially zero-information-content fluff. Well, you learn that Tim O'Reilly is excited about Rails.

"“Ruby on Rails is a breakthrough in lowering the barriers of entry to programming. Powerful web applications that formerly might have taken weeks or months
to develop can be produced in a matter of days.”
-Tim O'Reilly, Founder of O'Reilly Media "

This style of writing flaunts its disregard for the time and intelligence of the reader. It's simply bad on a website aimed at technical users looking for information and a few download buttons. It's inexcusable when asking for money.
I've merged yours to be the head of whymirror/camping, and made you admin. Thanks for carrying the torch!
It may benefit such an event to signal selectivity even if all invite-requests are granted.

Also, so many people just crash open free events (with beer!) that applying even the slightest seriousness filter could boost the event value a lot for its intended audience.

There are plenty of all-comers networking events, too -- it's not like the bay area tech startup community is either fragile, requiring gentle encouragement to finally grow, or exclusionary, starving for fresh blood.
This made me think of that one too actually. Kind of an intriguing concept... there's almost something romantic about the idea of escape, something artistic...
Another good one - which may or may not be worth the effort is splitting media across domain names - there is a limit on open connections per hostname for browsers(between 2-8, currently, I believe).
I'll assume that you're not from the US and politely disagree with the Canadian/European attitude that you can institute social change by making certain types of speech illegal... (i.e. Holocaust denial is illegal -- well at least publishing material about it is -- in Canada because it was deemed to be speech that 'incites hatred') (i.e. Nazi memorabilia is illegal in Germany, as well as other European nations like France)

I'll leave you with this little nugget though. Freedom of speech isn't really true freedom of speech if what you really mean is 'freedom to say only the things that I want to hear.'
How do you get from "great/crappy" to more talented and/or more determined? Doesn't the kind of site or the skills of the folks matter?

I ask because the initial Google search box page was crappy. We call it sparse today, but that's just sucking up. Brin admits that it looks like it did because he didn't know much HTML and apparently didn't care.
Yeah, might as well ruin your iPod with that fucking nonsense.

Why the fuck is this bullshit being upvoted. This is how modern art gets popular, you know? People "upvoting" IRL because they're tricked into thinking it's good. Peer pressure. Social "proof". Sheep mentality. When if they saw it in isolation, they'd realise it's just rubbish.

You know what? I can toss this shit out all day. Here we go, I feel an epiphany coming on:

bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes, bitches and hoes are tickling my toes

WOOOAH! That is, like, SO deep. Am I a genius yet?

update: Wait! More is coming! I am channeling the good shit!

check it out:

chickens and frogs, chickens and frogs, chickens and frogs are climbing the logs

That would look perfect on the back of any iPod IMO.
Yes it does, unless it is restricted (as it is in many places, online as well as offline).
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It certainly wasn't easy. Although the vast majority of the difficulty can be attributed to porting application code, some difficulty can be attributed to Django. I would have preferred a framework which makes it easier to swap out components, but it is unclear how much it would have really mattered except for in terms of psychology.
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As a foreword, I like incubator companies because they tend to ship nice looking, solid products.

In all cases you stated - "Who you know" matters more. Not context.

I/You/Anyone could make a "twitter for families" or a "twitter for sports" or a "url shortener for bacon" or whatever & it would not get written up on techcrunch - unless I/You/Anyone knew someone there (at TechCrunch) or was part of an incubator (like YC/TechStars).

TechCrunch needs some news, even if it is mediocre, every day, covering every company from every incubator is a good way to keep that news flowing.
Doing a search for "ruby Malsky" brings up _why stuff. I think Malsky is a character in some of _why's works.
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Maybe I wasn't very clear in my original statement. I wasn't reaching into the past and saying that the KKK burning crosses on lawns and lynching black people is a right in any way, shape or form. That sort of activity is illegal whether or not it is 'hatred' related and for good reason. Nowadays the KKK is pretty much just another protest group. They show up to places having to do with race and protest (or try to agitate opposing protesters). My point basically being 'freedom of speech' (i.e. the KKK expressing their racist attitudes by speaking or writing/publishing) is their right.

In any case, with or without the statement involving the KKK, I believe that my final statement in that post stands.
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Huh? Having so many sales that your server side script can't keep up is a nice problem to have. Having so much money you can never possibly know your actual self-worth is a nice problem to have.

Getting bugged by people who could never add value to you (emotionally, monetarily, or otherwise) is not a nice problem to have. It's just a problem.
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~ % dig +short hacketyhack.net
72.232.19.34
~ % dig +short -x 72.232.19.34
Cewki.com.

http://cewki.com was registered today and says:

where's _why?
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773106

EDIT: So this is interesting. As far as I can tell, this site is hosted by Isaac Force, owner of autognosis.org, and ruby user. He lives in Oregon though, and is almost definitely not _why.

Also, cewki is Polish for "coil".

Maybe the problem is that I don't understand DNS. Is there some way reverse DNS could point at this guy's server without _why telling it to? What's going on? >_<
I attempted to implement it based on that and reading the C++ code I found, but the descriptions didn't match up to the code, and it was simply too vague to pull it off. In the end, I think just using the code I found was the best route; wish I hadn't wasted days trying to implement it myself.
Is it just me, or does the Ruby community go in for cults of personality considerably more than others?
Apart from actually delivering, rails was the first framework to actually "market" itself as sexy that I have heard about. And it worked. Maybe programmers want to be excited, and not just read detailed specifications all day ;)
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Off course not!

If you really want to participate TC50, you should try everything else. Talk yourself into TC50, leave a comment on every TechCrunch article for the next 14 days and ask for a ticket or an invite, wait in front of 635 8th Street and pitch to angel's you recognize the day of the conference, dress like a Janitor with an old college ID and a van to get in.

Invent something but do not spend 3K just to be on the DemoPit. The area no one cares about that day anyway. Leave the 3K in your bank account and be happy to have more runway, or get a freelancer to do "that thing" that will make your product that much better.

Basti.
Of course, downvote me because I’m not mourning somebody who, if you’ll notice, isn’t dead /-:
I would agree with you but I think you're pushing the point a bit too far.
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I don't know, but expect to see Hofstadter and Searle debate by proxy in a courtroom, because Searle's Chinese Room argument is exactly the sort of thing you could put over on a typical jury.
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