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I use it (only for StackOverflow) but I don't think it's better or worse than normal logins. Sometimes it's a pain because I always have to do extra clicks to get logged in.
Most of you requirements except the need for SDB and S3 are well satisfied by Rackspace. Rackspace is also coming up with a new feature, similar to S3 called cloud files.
But no equivalent for SDB.

Since you are in development Rackspace's low end boxes (like 256M with 512 bursts, etc.)charged nominally for bandwidth will do fine. Whereas Amazon has got fixed boxes with 2G or something as far as I remember, I took it like 5 months ago.
For a dev box where there is no/not-much user traffic, a low end shared box from Rackspace if a good option. Its highly efficient on the budget. Once you have used it for dev phase you will have more knowledge and confidence on what Rackspace can do and what not. So you can decide whether to use it for prod or move over to something else.

Rackspace has got a monthly billing and anytime cancelling option. It works fine on budget as well as it gives you control over things if they are going beyond what you initially thought, as you can see the usage in real time (may be a few hours late at max). They had a money back policy too, about 4 months ago when I signed up, for the first month if the user is not satisfied.

About problems:

EC2: very less problems. But remember these are commodity hardware, measly boxes, the moment you start too many process (if doing any mutli processing) the box's response time mounts exponentially :-). Multi-threaded is fine.

S3 - have been using for storing images and haven't had a problem so far. You have options to save your EC2 image to your S3 space regularly to keep backup server images.
That costs you in terms of the space required on S3.

SDB: I hope you are aware but will still iterate that this is a key-value datastore, not relational.
I will say it is very much in the works. It does a lot good at most of the times, but lack of a group-by, only text data, only lexicographic sort (which forces the user to put even numerical data in special formats to sort on it), a bit ill defined mutli-valued attributes, number of attributes allowed to put at each request and overall number of attributes for a item are a few bumps in the road.
But once you read the docs and be regular with the AWS forums most of these get solved.

Rackspace cloud server: Only problem I have faced SSH is slow sometimes.

Rackspace cloudfiles: haven't used. But I know that you can automate your cloud server backup to cloud files, that costs.

Again, as you mentioned LimeLight, that's another factor, that makes Rackspace more suitable for you.

So I guess you best bet is to start off with Rackspace for now and see how it goes.

Hope that answer helps.
To everybody quoting the result that most entrepreneurs are in their 40s: that includes entrepreneurs in clean energy, hardware, other kinds of engineering. I'm not sure there's a study out there about just software/web entrepreneurs. Vivek Wadhwa's study (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/07/when-it-comes-to-foundi..., http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=874340 below) doesn't separate industries out.
Ask HN: I've tried lots of things but haven't finished any.
Background: I'm 18 years old, American, and attend an Ivy League college. It seems that I've tried to do a very long list of things, but that none of them ever actually succeed. Some of the things I've tried:

- Wrote a program to model the stock market. (The capital I needed evaporated during the credit crunch).

- Worked on a paper with a professor. (The professor bailed and they had access to lots of equipment I would have needed to finish it myself).

- Worked on a second paper with a second professor in another department. (Same story).

- Applied to Harvard, MIT and Stanford, the three big startup schools, twice, got rejected by all both times. (The school I'm going to is good academically but produces zero startups).

- Tried to start a company over the summer. (The other two people working with me bailed in August and are refusing to acknowledge that I own the rights to the portions of the code I wrote. Don't know what I'll do since I can't afford to sue them.)

- Tried to start a second company the previous summer. (Found out that that particular business had much larger capital requirements than I had thought.)

- Submitted my own paper to a conference, gave a talk there, but the paper was never published. (The special issue of the journal they were going to publish it in was canceled, and I haven't found another journal that would accept it.)

- Submitted second paper to second conference in different field. (Same story.)

- Applied for research internships last summer. (Rejected by all).

- Applied for finance internships this summer. (Rejected by all so far, not heard back from some yet, would appreciate suggestions if anyone has any).

- Helped to write a web application last summer. (No one uses it, and the other people working on it, who have a great deal of needed expertise, have moved onto more interesting projects).

- Did another webapp for one of the student clubs. (Someone else also wrote one and theirs was better, so everyone (including me) just used that instead.)

- Half a dozen math/science contests which I've entered. I recruited some fellow students to help practice and then we met weekly to work on our strategies. (Did badly in all of them.)

- Tried to start a blog, worked on it for two years. (Pretty much nobody read it.)

Am I doing anything wrong, just in general?

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One methodological issue as I reread that paper: "We allowed company executives to tell us if they were a founder. The guidelines we provided for defining a founder was 'an early employee, who typically joined the company in its first year, before the company developed its products and perfected its business model.'"

Companies often give out the co-founder title to early employees, but that's not what we think of when we read that 'most founders are 40' here at HN.
The nice thing is that this problem of desktop applications hasn't actually translated directly to the web. On the web, doing one thing well is much more valued on than on the desktop.

I suspect that this is because more users understand and feel comfortable with the web than feel comfortable with the non-browser desktop.
You're 18... give it time.
Server side re-rendering of websites?? Sounds like wide-spread support for that would be lacking... I'm sure as the Sidekick gained traction, more web sites adopted its special rendering requirements as you mention, but in the beginning, things must have been rough!

Disclosure - I've never owned a Sidekick (and know little about them, other than they are apart of Microsoft's 3 screens and a cloud strategy, yet they don't run Windows Mobile (??)).
You're young and you still have lots of time to figure what works, but you seem to be doing the right thing by trying lots of things that interest you. This will give you lots of experience quickly and teach you about yourself.

You seem to be on the right track. From what you've written, doesn't seem like your doing any specific thing wrong (except maybe spreading yourself too thin, but that depends on many factors that I can't know from just reading this).
Have you found a problem/pain point (at your current job perhaps) that you want to solve and turn into a startup? That's the first thing to consider. The two companies I've started began with "we need to solve this problem" and (in one way or another) then evolved into "hey, this could be a business" ... if you just start with "I want to do a startup", I think there's a higher risk of you making something people don't want/need.

That being said, I don't think it's ever too late.

But being married with kids makes the decision a little harder. Doing a startup on the side (i.e. keeping your job for now) means you sacrifice time with your family. Taking the leap and quitting your job (at some point) may mean a lifestyle change for everyone if you're only ramen profitable or living off savings. Those are decisions you need to make with your spouse. There were some months early on I really put some stress on my wife (financially) ... that's not a discussion where you sugar-coat things or pull a "if only 1% ...".

I'm in my mid thirties, married, and have 4 kids (one is already 15!) so I occasionally feel like an "old founder" when I read about the college kids on HN or TechCrunch. But we do real well now. I think its been 8 years since I had a "real job" ... no regrets.
Thanks :)

I guess I trained myself over the years to ignore watermarks in videos. Usually a good thing, but this time it would've been useful to look...
I think "give it time" is good advice if you have a project which is not very successful now but is on the ground running and is growing quickly, but I can't think of anything I'm doing that falls into that category.
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I think this is mostly true, but there's a paradoxical completion to it: fight or flight.

If something is about to knock wipe you off the map, you're likely to perform above the statistical average to make sure that doesn't happen. If you've got lots of cash in the bank, there's less likely to start making money. If things get tight, you're fighting to stay alive.
From my point of view (a dozen or so years of work wearing many hats, no marketing experience):

Look at your commitments towards you employer, formal and informal ones. If your
commitments permit: start on side something noncompeting with your employer. If it works, then its the Decision time.

Do not burn bridges.

To gain some marketing experience, I've started side project which consists of
almost no coding and all marketing in very competitive niche. I'm learning every
day and, as bonus, have possibility that project will work.
This advice is similar to what I've done, and it has worked well for me. The experience you get in a small growing company is (to me, anyway) more valuable than what you get at a larger, more established company.

Advice addendum: Be patient. There aren't many organizations that will work well for what you need, small and fresh enough to remain interesting yet stable enough to support a real family. The good news is that you only need one.
The benefit for me is that you get to choose who stores your password. A random website may store my password plaintext, I have no way of knowing -- so I am forced to use different passwords for each site, and manage them some way.

Ofcourse, I _know_ this, but in general, users don't know and don't care. So, OpenID actually makes the web a safer place for inexperienced users, which is I think is rather important.
A better question would be, for those of you who implement OpenID, Facebook Connect, etc. What's the customer percent breakdown against doing it the old fashioned (email & password) way?
I didn't think much of it, but after using it for a week, I wish it was used everywhere.

To those of you who haven't used it, try it out before condemning it.

It's really nice to login with the click of a button (no typing usernames and passwords) and signing up is usually a one click action as well.
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Dude, you're 18. The more important question is, are you carrying out meaningful social experiences with people your age? Are you making really great friends who have nothing to do with your career? Are you engaging in dramatic, possibly-hopeless romantic endeavors with cute 18 year old girls (or boys!) that you'll enjoy thinking about when you're 60?

You can't buy back your youth, kiddo.
can anyone explain to me, why we need an 128-Bit OS anytime soon? I thought the problem with 32bit was mostly about memory address space and 64bit solved that issue for good.
i'm pretty sure he's talking about servers run by danger that re-render other websites. those other websites don't know or care that they are being presented in such a fashion.
Based on a back of the envelope calculations I don't think the article's premise is plausible.

Just take the housing market, for example. Suppose people thought that housing prices would grow at the rate of inflation for the next 10 years... suddenly the prospect of whether to continue making payments on the next 10 years of a 30 year mortgage looks rather stupid. So these homeowners will be inclined to sell, driving prices down and leading to more sales, etc.

The above housing market deflation is precisely what the Fed wishes to avoid, so we can bet that monetary policy will be geared very specifically to prevent it, not just through interest rates, but through other actions that are done specifically to prop up housing prices.

In order to keep housing prices high, cheap credit will need to continue to be available to lower/middle income people...

We're already seeing the idea of "credit as a right" from policymakers... notably in the area of healthcare reform... even conservative economists have advocated things like a "healthcare credit card" issued by the government. Credit card companies are being treated more like providers of public utilities than as private businesses, etc.

All this suggests that credit will be more democratized (and politicized) than ever... it is, I think, the extension of traditional Keynesian economics to include the "time shifting" aspect of credit, but with all the same goals otherwise.
I think it is a matter of financial planning. When you know the cost of doing a startup, you will know whether you want to jump into it.

Just assume things fail and go against you will give you a good bottom line perspective. At least you have enough buffer to expected failures.

All the best to you. Cheers.
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I don't think you could argue that. Finance encompasses a lot more than questionable trading practices. I said finance, and not say banking, since I meant any kind of banking and investing. And there is an equivalence between debt (loans, bonds) and equity ((yc,angel,VC) x investments, stock offerings) since from the perspective of the company, you are paying rents on capital in both cases.

Do I need to argue the importance of loans and efficient allocations of capital? If you don't like thinking about this with money, what about with loans of goods?
This current crisis felt like we came to the brink of hyperinflation, but managed to scramble through it without quite tipping the balance. Nothing is fundamentally fixed, though, so I expect the next big crisis 5 or 10 years down the road to end with the revaluation of the dollar, Zimbabwe style.

Gold is overhyped right now -- anyone buying gold at the moment is a fool -- and, as a rule of thumb, any commodity that people watch like a hawk (gold, silver, oil) is going to have second-order effects that aren't necessarily correlated with supply/demand and isn't a very safe bet. That said, a lot of other less-watched commodities will be the first in line as newly-printed money trickles out into the economy and fuels an artificial manufacturing boom: copper, zinc, maybe some of the catalyst metals like palladium (too volatile for me), iron/steel to a far lesser extent (again, too volatile for me). If I'd had the money at the time to follow my gut in 2008, I would've made a killing on copper alone -- and if I'd put some into platinum, one year ago, pre-auto-bailout, I'd have made a very comfortable one-year return (on the order of 250%).
i dont see it as a too late or not. more about a risk management issue, especially with kids. They cost money and time. Startups require significant time and doesnt provide much money (in early stage).

can you do it on the side of your day job ?
can you financially afford not to have a day job ?

About the age thing, a fun way to considere it is not "they are young and im old", but more "they are inexperienced and i am experienced" :)

and another thing, find at least one partner who is business savy. This is a requirement
That argument does not really hold much water. The fact remains that you are portraying the same person, so these arguments which Intel wanted to avoid would still come up. Considering that, they should just have gone with the real guy.
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I don't get why, but it seems that few people here are interested in any of the same things I am. It's not like my interests are narrow; indeed, people criticize me for being too much of a dabbler (I am interested in math, physics, chemistry, biology, economics, politics, history, computers, and a whole bunch of other stuff). People just tend to talk about sports and dating and parties and clubs and stuff.

Why do so many people talk about youth as some sort of idyllic time in one's life? I, for one, have found a strong trend of things getting better as I get older, not worse. Old people, in general, have more of everything, because they've had more time to accumulate it: more money, more friends, more family, more power, more skill, more social status, more life experience, more of pretty much everything (except of course for physical stamina, but this is not terribly important in today's world, as the success of numerous disabled people shows).
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Personally, I use mailinator.com for that kind of thing. At least, things that require an email address where I don't need the emails stored for longer than required to click the "activate account" link. It's beneficial because there is no signup, and you don't need to go to mailinator before giving the email address out.
Fine, I'll say it if no one else will - the actor portraying Ajay looks funny and acts hilariously pompous, even in such a short ad.

"A decade ago, he would have been reduced to caricature" and the same thing happened now, so who knows whether the real Ajay would've been cool with it or able to pull it off. Consider all the wooden ads by sports stars that come off as stiff and rely on the recognition factor only.
My take: They didn't use the real guy because this let them create a little buzz and hold him back to give their ad campaign a second wind.

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Interesting that a Tonight Show advertiser initiated this interview, the show said yes, and even admits this interview was prompted by a sponsor. (Also interesting that the ad-block HN crowd isn't complaining about watching sponsored content)

Intel's PR and marketing people played this one really well.
The only option for those of us that use it is "use it on a daily basis". Pretty weak options.

I am always happy when I can use OpenID on a site. It's a really low barrier and guarantees that I won't leave at the sign up form. The only reason I don't use it every day is because the sites I visit every day don't support it.
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I have a friend who is a very good developer, he happens to be reliable, dependable, and can get things done. He comes in and leaves at the same time each day (dependable).

Myself, I developed the intial product and the next generation product, but I would work all night, weekends, sometimes several days straight. I wasn't coming in and leaving at the same time of the day. In the end dependable was better then myself, he is buying two houses, going on nice vacations, while I was left out in the cold when things were temporarily difficult. I would prefer to be in a different situation. If I was just dependable it would be better then imaginative. I would prefer to crank things out rather then go so hot and cold.
Users do not generally want less. It is not unusual in Corporations to actually compare features before a buying decision and there is always a strong perception that the software has more value if it has more features. It also ensures that your competition always stays a few months behind you.

B U T, users want simpler interfaces and quick ways to find something. So KISS the UI, but complexify the rest may be one good proposition.

If you consider library API's as a UI for coders here is an example from jQuery:

$().css(data);

NOT

$().getCss(data);
$().setCss(data);

More complexity in the library, less complexity in the API's UI.
Just going off the deep end, what if you ran an entire server farm as a single OS instance? It's certainly an interesting model for a distributed system, but I don't know how practical it is.

Even then, I don't see anyone getting 3.16 * 10^29 gigs of ram, so maybe it's just more marketing?
Not at all! Wisdom (usually) comes with age.

You're also more likely to have a better partnership with someone young. My partner in my current startup is 55, and I'm 19. We get along great.

I'm looking to start a new project. =]
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That's great advice, Sean. I'd also add going to local groups like the one you host, Bootstrapper's Breakfasts. I went to one last year when I started a side project with a friend and got a lot of great feedback. Semi-regular meetups are the kind of thing that can help keep up the momentum over the long haul.
It's a brilliant technology. I feel uncomfortable when i don't see OpenID in the website.
I use it if have to. Prefer the choice of selecting different names/passwords for different sites.
Not to mention that increased ocean acidity via carbonic acid - ie: the introduction of C02 into ocean water - is its own little nightmare, given its catastrophic effects on coral reef reliant systems.
To determine really what people want you need to be the proto USER, you need to understand the needs in solving a problem and what the outcome should be.

Great software ideas that stood the test of time were mostly developed by someone that wanted to solve his own problem first.

I would start with Knuth and TeX. He wanted to solve his own typesetting problems. I will leave it for others to add more examples (Lotus? AutoCad? HTML?)
Maybe a better title would've been - How To Stay A Design Genius. I didn't see a lot of connection between his post-sabbatical projects and the year that he spent off, which is fine - the main benefit seemed to be a rejuvenation of his love for the craft.

I've thought about doing something similar for a long time now, probably because my dad was a prof and some of my best childhood memories are from spending copious amounts of time abroad.
If you like iswitchb-mode, try out ido-mode (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractivelyDoThings). It's like iswitchb-mode, but it also works with C-x C-f. I assume it does more than that, but I haven't looked specifically for the differences. I don't think you should have both of them, though.
Except the phishing aspects make it worse for inexperienced users, since an arbitrary website can redirect to a page that asks for a potentially more sensitive username/password, and that's actually considered normal flow.

I don't understand how anyone can promote OpenID in good conscience with this glaring hole in the design. You simply can't rely on user education.
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