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Evidently Zooey Deschanel now lives in my neighborhood.

I don't even know who that is. In LA you'd have movie star neighbors. The "famous" people in my neighborhood are internet micro-celebrities like Veronica Belmont and porn stars like Madison Young. Perfect, for me.

Edit: ah, I see now that Zooey Deschanel is a movie star.

Also, downvote wtf? Seriously, explain yourselves. I'm perplexed by your rejection of my comment.
It’s as if all parties don’t occupy the same city, see the same shameful sights on the street, and bear the same responsibilities to taxes and charity that might help address these deep-seated and difficult problems.

If you think it's bad in SF, try Los Angeles. The different types of people mentioned don't just sit in different neighborhoods; they wall themselves off in almost San Francisco sized sub-cities. That said, I'd still choose to live in LA over SF any day of the week.
The problem here is that the author is arguing with himself.

Execution means having lots of ideas and modifying them as conditions change and you learn more.

We talk about ideas vs. execution because big exciting ideas are all over the place (I know the author doesn't agree but from experience I've seen and heard a lot of really great ideas). What's missing is all the little ideas that come from those big ideas. Lots of folks have some vague, big-pictured idea. Not many people have the three thousand little ideas that support the big one. Execution means finding all those little ideas and testing them to see which ones work.

If I remember correctly, FaceBook didn't really take off until the FriendFeed feature was added. Once folks started getting real-time updates of their friends, it became addictive. Sure the big idea was there and succeeding, but it's those little tweaks that end up doing the trick.

That's just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary. It's definitely a discussion worth having.
Seattle makes Portland look pathetic when it comes to coffee, but I'll have to concede the beer and the strip club crowns. ;-)
Just a reminder, "the author" is thinkcomp. No need to speak in the abstract third person.
>> And the only city with decent public transportation is Paris.

Try London.
It's somewhat sad to see someone so obviously talented waste that talent on building a career focused on the resentful reliving of being ill-done by. No matter how successful the ill-doer became.

Aaron, don't let the facebook that got away be the defining chapter in your life; build something new and amazing that you will be remembered for.
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of course

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I agree, although Treasure Island and Alcatraz are both hard to top provided you can see anything. Very distinct views too.
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Biking.

I chose this activity because it integrates my commute time and exercise time. Together, are about 120 - 150 minutes daily but separately they used to be anywhere from the same to 3.5 hours.
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I lived in Chicago for 5 years, San Fran area for 10 years, Los Angeles for 7 years, and Kansas City for about 8 years. I have to say that SF is probably the dirtiest, at least in parts, though Chicago always felt kind of rust-belty in many parts, rather than dirty. In KC, cleanliness tracks money more closely than any other place I've been. The Southwestern cities have always struck me as the cleanest of the places I've been outside of Germany (at least 30 years ago), Switzerland, Canada, and Monaco. Phoenix, Tucson, San Diego, Dallas, San Antonio, Albuquerque.

The other big problem with SF is the parking. Horrendous. And yes, many of the people there do seem to spend a great deal of time in an advanced state of self-congratulation.
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I stick with "no carbs" diet. Nothing else.
The two end up being intertwined though.

When I was younger I played Magic. At first, I did okay. I had some decent cards and, with some luck, would win often enough. However, as the game evolved, better and better cards came out and if I wanted to have any success I needed to keep buying cards. So no matter how much strategy I came up with, I just didn't have the cards I needed (its possible that I was too young to really come up with good strategy, but given that most of the other people were about the same age, buying cards was probably my best chance at winning).

If this weren't the case, then the card manufacturers would not have a way to keep making money. I got into some other card games as well, and I remember one was particularly well balanced such that new cards weren't "better" than old ones. As I remember, the game didn't last long and was soon discontinued. Anecdotal, yes, but the key is that "game" and "collection" intertwine.
The reason execution is stressed over ideas is that non-businesspersons frequently think, "I've got this idea that's going to make me rich!"

It's actually incredibly common. Anyone that's been on the business side of a business doesn't think that way, and most engineering people don't think that way, but people that don't work hands-on with the grimy, mucky, slogging reality of business believe in the myth of a great idea.

Ideas without execution = nothing. Execution of even a mildly valuable idea = quite valuable. Most of the people I know who built large fortunes didn't invent something new or crazy. Lots of real estate and development, turning one space in the world into a more valuable space. One gentleman I know buys properties in high rent areas that are normally not profitable, and converts them into vacation/short term rental properties for businessmen staying in town who want a more "homey" place. So he's able to turn traditionally cashflow-neutral or negative properties into profitable ones with a just a bit of added active management and marketing.

Brilliant idea? Meh, not so much. Great execution.

There's lots more. I have one acquaintance who is investing and working on various technologies for spaceflight, so maybe he'll do some breakthrough crazy stuff later, but most of the wealthy people I know don't do anything so flashy or remarkable. It's just all execution of ages old ideas, like buy a space and renovate it into a nicer, more valuable space. Provide a service lots of people use for cheaper. Provide a higher quality service that is currently well used that people are dissatisfied with. Make people's lives more convenient, happy, or healthy. These aren't such new ideas. If I had to guess the ratio of a person that goes self made to holding more than $5 million in assets, I'd guess 95 to 98% old ideas with great execution, 2 to 5% new ideas. We lose sight of that in technology because we keep hearing about the new cool hotness, but most fortunes are built by fixing something in the world that you're using and aren't happy about the quality of. Hence, almost all execution, not so much having great ideas.
Funny, I hadn't thought of that.

:-)
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Newspapers have grown decreasingly diverse over time as they have concentrated more and more on regurgitating wire stories, with human interest non-news, opeds, and fill-in-the-blank local reportage as padding. Very little of the content in papers is legitimately new reporting or investigative journalism. As wire reports etc. have become available cheaper, faster, and more conveniently through the internet and TV the dubious nature of the "value add" of news papers has become more and more apparent.

That news papers have become utterly dependent on advertising in an age when print advertising is dying is a separate phenomenon which has effectively sealed the fate of most papers. Few papers are willing to accept the notion that they cannot survive without dramatic, fundamental changes. They would rather live with the fantasy that it's just not possible or that profitability is just a few little insubstantial tweaks away.

If papers dumped their standing armies of news regurgitators, got lean, and concentrated solely on local news and investigations, they might have a chance of surviving in the modern, ultra-connected world. But few are willing to make such dramatic changes, so we will see a lot of papers die before this all gets sorted out.
Don't forget that the weather here means you can comfortably go running year round. In fact, the san francisco half is in January. That's a huge advantage that SF-proper has. Soccer, running, and cycling are all activities you can do every single day in SF-proper.
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(Not an argument. Just an anecdote. I've never lived in SF.)

My Dad got three parking tickets from Chicago this year. For a truck that he hasn't owned in four years. My Dad hasn't been to Chicago in a few years. The truck had never even been to Illinois. Dad disputed the tickets instead of just paying them, because he could prove the truck was in Florida when the tickets were issued. [He owns a trucking company, so he keeps pretty meticulous records, including fuel receipts.]
They graciously waived the fines after he spent a few hours arguing the matter and provided the documentation.

At first he thought the tickets were due to a computer error or something...there have been a few cases of people getting multi-million dollar parking tickets in Chicago in the last few years due to 'computer error.' He thought maybe someone just mistyped a VIN. But NOOOOOOO...it turned out to be a scam - run by a few elected gentleman - that have previously gotten into trouble for doing the same thing. They send bogus tickets to out-of-towners, especially commercial vehicles. They know that a certain percentage of people will just think "Well, I was in Chicago...?" and then pay the damn tickets without protest. Easy cash. That, my friends, is "Chicago's way." ;-)

This speaks to why my Dad refuses to come and visit me in Chicago. And why I get to hear him gripe anytime someone mentions Chicago, parking, traffic, cars, scams, etc. etc. I'm hoping a new grandkid will finally get him to visit again.
Its not that hard to read, but a simple line graph would probably have been clearer.
Amazing that someone would create something that sounds that cool, and still fail to include an example showing how it's used, front and center on the root page. :(
Sorry that Scalr didn't work out for you. From the date your comment was posted (beginning 2009) Scalr was still a young open source project.

We now have a development version available at development.scalr.net, if you would like to try it out again.
CNET used to do something sneaky whereby they used domain.com.com on many of their domains to inflate their unique visitor counts. That way, when somebody typed http://mistake.com.com, they'd be counted as a unique visitor to the com.com TLD which hosted all CNET sites. This way, they could tell advertisers that they reached 99% of the Internet via their com.com domain. It was really annoying to type in http://www.cnet.com, and be redirected to http://cnet.com.com...

Apparently, they've stopped doing this. Now, typing in, say, http://mistake.com.com ends up doing a search for "mistake" on CNET's search engine, search.com.
Yeah, the weather is definitely a huge point in favor of SF in my opinion. It's nearly perfect, aside from the chilly summers.

SF proper is not nearly large enough or traffic-free enough to do serious cycling in, though.
Is this project gone? Got a Project Not Found error.
I can do a basic bread board, but that's about it. The product is a spin on an existing product (no IP issues I know of, as it's a product that is manufactured and sold under many forms by many companies).

As far as volume is concerned, I'd like to get a prototype in hand first, and then produce a run of 100.

It's electronics are minimal (a timer/clock, about 10k of memory), but need to be put in space about 1-2 cubic cm. Power will be external to this small space, as will a few other components that the electronics will control. It will require both molded plastic and machined metal.

I'd love to give more details, but I'm really surprised no one has jumped on the idea yet.
Count calories and do 15 minutes of exercise in the morning. It doesn't have to be complicated or expensive. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
Oh, yeah, that little episode really inspires confidence in a financial service.

Seriously, take it down until you sort out your issues, guys.
I'm amazed how caught up in the SF tech-scene people can get. Sometimes, it feels like anyone who ever used vi or emacs moved to the Mission or SoMa.

I know those are trendy places for engineers to live, but this city is really a bunch of small villages. Pac Heights, Nob Hill, NB, Russian Hill, Cole Valley, Bernal, Noe, and Hayes Valley are all wonderful, clean, "diverse" neighborhoods (well, diverse in the sense that your neighbors aren't engineers). I think a lot of people get myopic when they either live in the same neighborhood they work in or cluster too closely with people from their industry.

While Lovefest was indeed this weekend, so was Oktoberfest, the Fillmore Food and Wine festival, and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival. The Bluegrass festival was free, outside, and featured some amazing music. http://www.hardlystrictlybluegrass.com/

There's a lot to appreciate here in the city that isn't tech related!
The fees for "storing" my car in San Francisco's tow lot were over $850, but that doesn't matter much, because they insisted for weeks that it was stolen and gone, so I replaced it.

Sorry. Your story sucks, and I'm sorry that happened to your dad, but I'll take Chicago over San Francisco any day.
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I think the fact it adresses the JVM is a nice thing that allows you to get away with writing Lisp code when your corporate overlords demand you to write Java code. ;-)

Now, more seriously, it seems a rather useful Lisp that somewhat deals with the problem of partial/buggy/worksforme library implementations by using the huge Java class library.
One of my good friends (graduate student) is getting started as a consultant doing this kind of work. He is one of the smartest hardware guys I know. He would be more than willing to do the job for a low fee, also he is my roomate so I'm sure I can get you a YC discount :) Check my profile for an email.
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I echo that sentiment. Enough with the Facebook envy. Whether right or wrong in this from a moral standpoint, there has to be something more productive worth doing with your time than to keep harping on about this sorry issue for the rest of your life.

Maybe you should have "won". Maybe not. We can debate this until kingdom come, to our collective embarrassment. The fact remains, Mark Zuckerberg is Facebook's CEO and you're not. Get over it. Start another company. Are you a one-idea man? Was this the only idea you were capable of having in your lifetime?

I make no judgement on the claims of idea theft (as porous as the very idea of idea theft might be), but leave you with an extract from this little big poem (http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/Rudyard_Kipling/kipl...):

(...)

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;

(...)

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!
You do realize there will be a point in time we will run out of attractive names for operating systems.
Or Munich.
Yeah, ideas are mostly worthless.

Facebook's success certainly cannot be attributed to their "idea": the online community thing had been done thousands of times before. Just never executed well enough.

Google's success cannot be attributed to their idea, as there were numerous search engines before them. Execution is what propelled them to the forefront. Their search engine actually showed good results.

Amazon. They sell books. Not the most novel idea out there. They just did it better than anyone else. Zappos. They sell shoes.

For all the time people spend comparing their startups to the biggest players, it's quite odd that so few realize that it's not about the idea. It's about the execution.
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Just loved it. Actually left it on for quite a while. The music of the spheres...
Has anyone done anything like this on an individual level? Is it even possible?

Of course! Google Mitch Altman and TV-be-gone. I imagine there are very many others too.
Wow the author obviously doesn't get "execution."

Of course "idea" and "execution" should be defined properly. When people say "execution is more important than the idea," the idea is what you come up with your unaided intelligence, and execution is your ability to refine that idea and stay objective towards your goals. In this case the "idea" is not important because when you "execute" it, any one idea will morph and change constantly. Even if considering the ideas you come up with collectively, it's still less important because improving an idea is always possible even if they are small improvements.

The author apparently doesn't really understand what "idea" means. So if I was dumb enough to try a disposable jumble jet, the original idea doesn't matter because after I try to create such a product and fail, I will choose to ditch that idea. Eventually my idea will get better as I continuously hit brick walls if they suck. The rate at which I can learn from mistakes and avoid brick walls is execution. While you can still improve your innate execution ability, it's much harder to improve that than the idea. For this reason, idea is less important than execution.

Simply put, the idea is the formula you come up with before testing it, and the execution is your ability to adapt your idea to reality. Your formulae will be plenty and disposable, your ability to be objective and adapt your formulae is much more important because it is the engine to which your formulae power.
I googled the name, and rediscovered this interview:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4600578110948529551...

Great stuff, thanks!
According to Nebel, the research leader, the present funding is enough to know if it will work. Check this, from May.

http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/05/dr-richard-nebel-we-will-kn...

Edit: Which was linked from the article. :-) Sigh, I read the recent news last night somewhere else and didn't check this.
Scalr scales your sql database, with master-slave separation, replication between nodes, and soon application transparent partitioning (sharding). So if you're not into the whole DBA / sysadmin fun, it's worth it.

It also lets you restore a website version to a previous state if you get hacked, use traditional (cheaper) hosting solutions which burst on the cloud when needed, and manage app versions, backups, etc. in a more organized way then homegrown solutions.
I really like rowing regularly on a Concept 2 machine. It's my favorite exercise.

- uses a lot of the body, upper and lower

- low impact, doesn't aggravate any of my injuries (eg knee)

- not weather dependent (running track gets icy in winter around here)

- high tech, you can race others over the web

- good online community

- accessible (for me, they have several machines at the gym)
Yes, but you can commute in it year-round. And with a fixie or single speed, the hills add at least a modicum of challenge.

There's no reason to say that SF proper is too small to take advantage of; I think the appeal is that here, you have year-round, every day exercise. That little bit adds up, just like every day of brutal cold in Chicago or NYC changes you.

That effects people's psyche, and I think that's a major reason why the attitude out here is different.
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Haha... Who is going to trust them after all this
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Wow, angry man. Just shut up and take our ass-f--king. Smart.
Don't forget (and this is probably more important in this case than usual) luck. The nature of social networks favors one network that "everyone is on". Which one gets chosen probably has more to do with luck than the execution of the site. All it took was a few random people to stumble upon it and "but all my friends are on facebook" took it from there.

If you'd like a counterpoint that favors execution, I hear that you can do pretty well just selling shoes...
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FAQ - Q - What happens if the co-founders have a major spat over ownership rights and coding bugs?

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Your best bet is going to be teaming up with somebody who does this sort of thing (electrical/mechanical prototyping) for a living (there are a few individual consultants and small consulting firms, some of them suggested elsewhere in this thread).

1-2 cm^3 is going to seriously limit the consultants who will be able to help you, and the manufacturers who will be able to produce the thing. The consultants specialize in low-volume designs, which typically mean that size and efficiency are not first-order concerns. Likewise, quick-turn PCB houses are not likely to make you 1 or 2 of something this small, as their tooling is not set up for it (not the common case for their market), and I would imagine similar constraints are present on the mechanical/assembly side.

If you feel comfortable learning PCB design, at least to do the non-space-critical "other components", these are some good resources:

http://www.alternatezone.com/electronics/files/PCBDesignTuto...
http://www.pcbdesign.org/
http://www.smps.us/pcb-design.html

As far as software, you can try PCB123's (http://www.pcb123.com/) free software if (and only if) you want to use them to manufacture your boards. Otherwise, I'd go with Altium Designer (http://www.altium.com/products/altium-designer/en/altium-des...) (used to be Protel) personally, but other options are gEDA (GPL EDA suite), Orcad, PADS, and Eagle. Other than gEDA (obviously), the for-pay CAD packages are pricey, though there are usually student discounts if that applies to you.
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wtf?

Bend over may refer to the action of bending one's body over, as in to pick up something, or, for example, as the hydra does in order to move when hunting, in dancing (like in the various breakdance moves), gymnastics, and sports (like snap football), as well as to be (vaginally or anally) penetrated in sexual activity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bend_over

so even if you took bend over literally there's nothing wrong (or anything implying anal sex) in saying that Mint guys bent over to pick-up Intuit's offer.

and while Jason Fried has actually added value by using such provocative but eloquent metaphor, Dave McClure has totally subtracted any little value that was in his rant by obscuring it with fucks etc.
SF proper is way too small to go for a nice 140k ride.