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So you are one of those who says "Please close the door right after I get in".
"We came during the time when America needed new talent."...well, the kind of talent that got in is not cutting it right now. May be we need a new crop of immigrants to stir up the economy? or the kind of wage drops that you hate will cause the profitability of these companies to go up and stir the economy.
It is labeled Voroni diagram because the actual map is a Voroni diagramm of the points placed by the algorithm, clipped to some outline.
Has AT&T Wireless data congestion been self-inflicted?
Proving ROI?

Pretty much what Greg Mcadoo(sp?) from Seqouia said yesterday I think.

No idea why you' consider this bribery, lol. You're either saving money or helping them make more. Bribery is a (usually criminal) way of giving something for a favor.
> You write a high-level solution to the problem, the compiler makes it work efficiently.

Ideally yeah, but if you look at gcc for example, this statement is far from the truth. Then again, based on your logic, I guess gcc is buggy...
With iPhone apps - sure.
Thanks for the input and luck!!! Okay, I will make it clear with big font on the home page what the purpose is. I understand it's difficult to use! Haha, I have trouble with it myself! I tried using Javascript to do it all on one page as seen here
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/741576/need-help-with-rai...
This is the best I could do with having it work at all.
Nuture nature.
The Colemak layout is wonderful but not so much for Vim where probably the most used key is the colon. Colemak moves this to a less accessible position, one row up, making it more painful to use constantly, as you pretty much have to in Vim.
Yeah, there's really not much different in the taste of the creators of the average GeoCities page and MySpace profile, right down to the gratuitous animated GIFs.
He should be prompting for R5RS, not Common Lisp.
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He was definitely the most engaging speaker I saw. Like Tony Robbins, Mark spoke with emotion, which is what made what he had to say so interesting.
It is in their fiscal interest to make sure they don't screw this up.
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The curious pricing of the 27" iMac
I love it that you and the many people you surround yourself with are brilliant web developers - and your site has a 90's almost craigslist asthetic.

But like craigslist, it's a very ironic cool and minimalist design that I hope you don't change.
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Maybe someone in the Tianjin government reads Paul Graham? =)
http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html
it's particularly interesting when your co-founder is female. (or, you're a female co-founder teaming up with a guy.)
Awesome, spot on!
That just shows you appreciate your own worth and time. Some partners and customers carry negative worth. It's important to get rid of them, or not start anything with them in the first place.

You seem to recognize that you always have a position of your own: you don't merely have to take just about anything that happens to come in as you know you have better things to do as long as there isn't anything in it for you.
Could be a specific reference to a particularly big problem the quoter had, in which case i.e. is just about o.k.
Create a widget with a link back to your site. Good for referrals and pagerank.
I would love to hear how other founders have worked their immigration issues out. That's probably the biggest thing from stopping me right now -- all of my potential co-founders are American but I'm Canadian without a green card.
It seems to me that honest advice about what actually works in dating usually offends people.

Go pick up virtually any book by and for pickup artists. (Or start with a website like http://www.seductiontuition.com/.) You will find it full of incredibly crass generalizations about women that are guaranteed to offend. But it works! Pickup artists aren't worried about being politically correct, they are interested in getting attractive women in bed. And they have found strategies with a high success rate.

For the converse go pick up dating advice aimed at women like The Rules. (You can find much of it summarized at http://www.topdatingtips.com/dating-rules-for-women.htm.) It is full of nasty stereotypes about how to treat men that I find horrible and awful. But it works! The advice is popular because it has helped many women land relationships they are happy with. No matter how much I wouldn't like being treated that way, it clearly works on a lot of guys.

Now let me be clear. I don't like either of those sets of advice any better than you appear to. Nor is either relevant to my life - I was lucky enough to fall in love young, and have now been married close to 20 years. However I accept that there is empirical evidence supporting those theories. And the lesson I take from that is that many people don't work like I'd like them to.
We have 10% unemployment. Are you telling not one of those people cuts it for the job?

When times are good, fine let everyone in. But when people end up unemployed for 2-3 years at a time, letting more people to expand the # of unemployed is just plain stupid.

How will these immigrants stir up the economy? They don't come here with a job like H1B Visa guys, they come here penniless, with crappy English and no connections.

Yeah they'll stir up the economy alright, by adding more unemployed, desperate people willing to work for nothing, just to pay the bills.

I'm not for closing the door right after I get in, I'm for closing the door, because the times are tough and the country is fucked. Once the economy starts expanding again, sure open the door. But until then, when jobs are limited, the last thing we need is bring in more competition.
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I thought he said he had $80,000 in savings not just $8,000.
I think it's proportional to the perceived fame/importance of your brand. My startup launched something locally this summer, associated with a particularly cool event. I get anything from the 'wow you run your own company' to 'wow you made that? I used it' and 'eh'.

I don't think it's necessarily a matter of competence/achievement but simply being able to relate. If they've heard of our product then they don't need to spend fifteen minutes having technical buzzwords thrown at them, nor do I need to spend hours unravelling the misconceptions they form. It's just 'oh yeah, you did that? great' and onwards we go away from the fantastically boring topic of 'where do you work'. In circles where people don't find that topic boring (i.e. startup guys) the 'being impressed by working on $foo' doesn't hold anyway.
pg actually spelt it out during the talk, as well.
You are not alone. For an extreme example see http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol....

However I think that most good business ideas require enough work, and are in landscapes that change quickly enough, that they really do require a larger time dedication from someone.
I don't know about you but if I was writing a program to fly a plane I'd want to make damn sure I took into account an intelligent malicious agent trying to crash my plane.
"Does it work" isn't a quantitative metric, it's a qualitative one.
I wonder though, with the comments about how the character and commitment of your co-founders matters so much more than ability or output that, in the case you can't get someone you know well to join you, that you would do better not having a co-founder rather than spending time looking for one.
Larry Wall, is that you?
Where's your example though of an unregulated economy sucking? You haven't given one, and all the examples we have show that the less regulation the better.
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Recent, massive productivity increases for me:

- discovering errorformat and using error format and quickfix to solve the complains a style checking tool outputs. This turned 'look in file. unterstand filename and line number and remember the reason, enter long path, navigate to line, fix reason' to ':cn, read reason, fix reason, :w, goto 1', and (opposed to some IDE), I can still focus on getting things done first and then fixing style issues.

- registers and macros. Recently, I had a number of similar fixes to do, even though it was not entirely trivial to describe those fixes with a regular expression. However, it was possible to describe the sequence of operations as a number of vim movements and vim operations. Thus, I could record the editing of a single file into a macro and just apply this macro to each file. This turned around 30-40 minutes of annoying things into like 5 minutes.

- after case b, learning about arglists and argdo, which would have cut down the time required for the change to a few seconds, opposed to several minutes.

Those are just from the top of my head.
Being able to learn HTML in a weekend and put it up on a Geocities page was pretty much the start of my career (if you can call it that) of creating stuff for the web, something which I'm still loving 12? years later.

A grey, Times New Roman page 'About My Life' might not have seemed exciting to anyone else, but it was the same 'wow, I made that!' moment as the first time a BASIC program printed my name across the screen.

(On reflection, many of these beginnings are egotistical, aren't they?)

It strikes me that Kids These Days Don't Have It So Good. Stuff is complex now. A page with nowt but a <title> and <h1> tag looks rubbish. Back in the day, everything looked rubbish so your first page actually looked kinda cool. Obfuscating the real work through helpful frameworks and builders does help one get started, but there's always the sense that it's not really the same as starting from nothing.

I do wonder what the current, or immediate, equivalent to those magic first steps might be.
I love your app; I signed up for a Free account today and will definitely be upgrading to a paid subscription when there is more than one dude working at my startup.
I am pretty ambivalent about that book. It covers a lot of territory with pointers to deeper literature with a clear emhasis on using these techniques with a statistics program like SPSS (or R), which is nice, but it still wastes a lot of space printing intermediate tables for simple examples which don't do much except filling pages.

But the real bummer is the editorial quality. There aren't any three consecutive pages without major typographical or editorial errors like missing parantheses in complex formulas or cases where they obviolsly replaced examples with simpler ones but forgot to change the illustrations together with the text.
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I found this commodity article actually advantageous for the SEO basics, while I was optimizing my new website. I added it

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The reason not to put your all your eggs in one basket is not the usual one, which applies even when you know which basket is best.

The last paragraph of 7 has an extra 'your' (but otherwise you're not repeating yourself ;-)
It's true. Eating is a waste of time, sleeping is a waste of time, interacting with other people is a waste of time, posting to HN is a waste of time, talking about things that are a waste of time is a waste of time, wasting time is a waste of time. Your startup is, statistically, probably a waste of time. But we do it anyway.

I have spent a bit of time configuring Xmonad, but the configuration has lasted me for 2+ years and has saved me an infinite amount of frustration. I used Windows for a while at work, and the constant interaction with the mouse makes my hand hurt. With Xmonad, I never have to use the mouse. (I use it for casual web browsing, and whatnot, but I never need it to do real work.)

I have also wasted a lot of time configuring Emacs -- my .emacs and support files are more than 2000 lines long. But everything I've spent time on has eliminated small bits of frustration during my work (and play), so even if I can't justify the time savings, I can enjoy life more. Since you eventually die, I think it's worth enjoying life.

Xmonad makes my life similarly enjoyable.

The only thing that bothers me about Xmonad is that there is no "instance Monad X" in the source code -- Monad is automatically derived on the X type.
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Also does anyone know if high quality videos for MIT Startup Bootcamp are posted anywhere? Some of the ones on Justin.TV are incomplete.
Games blogs are usually fairly focused on games themselves, not the meta stuff around selling and buying them. OK, at Joystiq et al we would often do stuff like sales charts and in-person reports from the Xbox 360 line, but readers mostly visit for entertainment value. Writing about a marketplace site would come across too much like an ad, I think; we didn't highlight Amazon or Best Buy's sale items, for example!

(Weirdly we did cover the digital distribution stuff a fair bit, but I think that's twofold. Firstly, most of it is from major gaming players and impacts the rest of their strategy, which fanboys will leap on. Secondly, digital distribution is still New and Exciting.)
I agree here. I set up a new machine the other day and had the default xmonad config for a while. It works fine; it is not significantly different from my super-custom configuration. It was certainly better than a window manager where you have to drag things around to see all your windows.
Just pretend it's not configurable. Now it's like all the other window managers.

Also, stop calling tiling window managers "twm". "twm" is a specific window manager that comes with X. (Now there's a hard-to-use window manager.)

Finally, what problems were you having? If you just didn't like it, say so.
I'm 57+ and it has taken me since 1999 to get my AA and I still have to make it another 2+ years to get my BA. I work to make ends meet I support a disabled mother, husband and grandson...........I want my Masters and I'll take the time it takes to get it. Psychology is not a simple study and these morons want us to do our degrees in 3 years with 40 units per year........I still take 24 and I still don't get a full night sleep........be real PLEASE!
Absolutely: I don't tell family about, or celebrate, a new deal until the money is actually in the bank.
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$1700 seems like a pretty good price for that. I hate Apple, but could almost see myself replacing my 4-year-old laptop (which I never undock) + 24" monitor with one of these. (I would not keep OS X, of course.)
1. Really? I have to hold my hand up on this one. It's a product of a $30 Wordpress theme and my below par design skills. That's useful feedback.

2. Yes that's the point of the site and something I'm actively working on. More accurately, it something I'm trying to make more efficient because right now it's just too expensive with the way I'm using the amazon api.
I found the price strangely low.

As usual with any Apple release, I started some friendly banter with my Apple-loving friends about how poor the value is compared to a regular PC, until I got to the 27" Imac and realised you couldn't buy a screen that good, elsewhere - at any price.
This reminds me of Kafka's The Trial. Scary, but amusing at the same time.
"What's the word for bribing people with their own money?"

Government?
Corporations aren't the only organisations to potentially cut safety measures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe
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Oh, the blog is more for me than for my customers. The content I write for my customers is metric loads of bingo cards: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/bingo-cards (Edit to add: Oh, I have a blog on the main site too these days. No great shakes yet.)

It is very easy to go from downloading bingo cards to selling software to write them. Customers come in wanting to play e.g. American history bingo, customers realize the free set doesn't have exactly the words from their lesson, customers are told if they want to customize a few sample cards all they have to do is sign up for the free trial, ... you get the general idea.

Edit to add:

Incidentally, I know nearly nothing about firewalls or what the concerns of firewall operators are. I imagine they sound something like How Do I Set Up A Firewall Which [Insert Distinguishing Feature Here]. I further imagine that there are a wide range of distinguishing features which could be enumerated automatically or semi-automatically, for example, set up a firewall which allows $APP_NAME by opening up $APP_PORT. Have you considered writing an article or two about that general subject? How about writing an article or two thousand? (You can, of course, interdisperse it with more hand-crafted, higher level content.)
Neat idea. Could be useful. A couple of thoughts...

1) I agree with everyone here about the need to streamline the process. Once screen for entry, etc...

2) What does each term mean? I know most of them, but whats an "exercise group?" People who don't work out a lot may not know what other things mean. E.g. reps = repetitions. Put something like "number of repetitions" instead.

3) A lot of workout programs are something like:
Run a little for 4 weeks.
Run a medium amount for 4 weeks.
Run a large amount for 4 weeks.

If thats how I'm doing things, I don't want to enter 12 weeks worth on info, I want to enter 3 weeks and have each one repeated. I'm not 100% sure how I would redesign the interface, for this, you can try a few things out...

4) Why are the numbers in drop downs? To me, thats very unnatural (others might disagree).

5) Having it so that anyone can edit and delete a workout could be a bit chaotic.

Edit:
6) One more. After I create a workout, the link at the bottom says "Index." What does that mean? A button that says "Done" or something would be more clear.
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Nice to see in-depth coverage of technology in this Web 2.0 world of content-free publishing. I think only Ars could pull off a 15-page review of an OS.

I'll now read this through, even though I haven't used Windows for over 4 years.
SGI has the full copyright to the version they initially released, but modern XFS has spent 8 years getting integrated into Linux by many independent contributors.
Ask HN:  Who changed your life?
Is there an individual whom you've met that provoked or fostered your entrepreneurial spirit?

Anyone who caused you to make the decision to start your own business?
I dont think the price is that low. If you look at these cheap (and smaller) (E-)IPS panels that are popping up (NEC EA231WMi 23"for 300 euro, dell's ips for 200 or samsung c-pva for 200) i think its pretty obvious that its possible to produce an inexpensive screen. The computer on the back might cost like 300 so I think there is still a decent margin for apple
Trevor Blackwell has posted some here http://blog.tlb.org/paul-graham-at-startup-school-0
Oh, sure. My CMS takes a word list as input and spits out a page like this ( http://www.bingocardcreator.com/bingo-cards/holidays/thanksg... ) as output. I think it is rather unlikely that a Wordpress plugin exists to do that.
Every part on the Space Shuttle is built by the lowest bidder already, same as in every large government procurement programme. Why do you think they keep having to scrub launches because something as small as an o-ring fails? How much does an o-ring cost compared to the cost of rescheduling a launch? It's a complete false economy to work like that, and only a government can really get away with it.
Where is Patrick BCC when you need him? I'd love his take on this.
The Google/Yahoo comparison is somewhat invalid - Yahoo is a portal, Google is strictly a search engine. Look at the "portalized" version of Google (i.e., iGoogle) and the similarities start surfacing.

I work for one of the top 25 sites on the tubes, and our homepage is also fairly busy looking. But it also has been relentlessly verified via both user testing and aggregate data analysis. UI guys hate when these numbers come out - but clean and elegant is not always the most efficient UI (for various definitions of efficient).
You choose the option that gives you the biggest return on invest per time of the constraint. In this case your development time probably is the constraint.

ie.
Sales price Raw Materials Margin
Product A 1000 us 200 usd 800
Product B 2000 us 200 usd 1800

so seems like product B is a no brainer right?

But if we consider the time it takes to implement:
Margin Time to Develop Margin / hrs
Product A 800 100 hrs 8 usd / hr
Product B 1800 300 hrs 6 usd / hr

So product A is in fact a better use of your time.

This analysis method is called Throughput Accounting.
From a management philosophy called: Theory of Constraints
E-commerce has been around for >15 years now, and there how many tens or hundreds of thousands of e-commerce sites? It's a very well known problem by now.
Perhaps the price of LCDs is about to drop sharply?
not without marketing also
Ask HN: Merchant Accounts & Payment Processors in the US?
I just read this article - http://blog.boxedice.com/2009/05/20/taking-payments-online-merchant-account-payment-processor-fees/ - but it is strictly for the UK. It is quite insightful, and detailed, but doesn't make sense for me because I don't live in the UK.

Does anyone know of a similar write-up for the US and other international countries?

Thanks.
Honestly, never really come across it (got any examples so I can browse the content?).

I imagine that might combine the best of both worlds; but that's just from the name :)
I think it's telling of my age that I didn't even do a double take at that site. In fact, I had opened the link in a tab, forgot about it, came back later, and found myself thinking, "Who's embedding XKCD comics on their GeoCities page?"

I sometimes marvel at how much of history is "lost to the ages", even from the relatively recent past (i.e. ~1000 yrs). I find myself sometimes wondering if something similar might happen 1000 years from today. I can't say for sure, but I certainly think it's possible.
Great review. I agree with Peter's claim about the lack of attention to detail, but Windows 7 is still, as he calls it, a "fantastic OS".

At least the Install Font dialog from Windows 3.1 is gone. :)
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LCD display(not panels) makers manufacturers still make decent margin. There is a reason why these guys keep selling these things with a lot of competition on price.

Apple is most likely still making a nice ~20% margin on the 27" iMacs.
Honestly, the number of your users is directly correlated to your potential market.

I strongly suspect this is not the case, because I have always been limited primarily by "number of prospects I can reach with my marketing" and not "number of elementary schoolteachers in the United States". (Over two million, incidentally. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will tell you all manner of fascinating things!) Nor does the percentage of teachers in the population matter very much at all, because I never address marketing to "the population", I address marketing to e.g. "the people who are searching for [bingo card activity for kids]".
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