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I ran a robotics design team. I learned that managing people is not trivial, and I learned it the hard way. I also learned a lot about Linux, embedded systems, and putting electronic circuits together.

Another thing I learned was that I strongly prefer working with software to hardware. I am pretty good at connecting components together, but I wouldn't want to design these chips. I ended up switching my specialization, and it's good that I did this then rather than after graduating.

My marks suffered, but overall it was worthwhile. I'd still say do something you like rather than what you think will impress a committee. But I don't (yet?) have any incredible success stories to share to back up this opinion.
very true.
and lets not forget they have incentive to act of any accusation since they get to seize a bunch of property and fund their department... i've heard that police departments in some places send the swat team for everything since they can seize whatever they want.
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Hell, someone would probably set up a linkbait news posting to a webpage that they claim is protected ip and have a script issue automatic disconnect requests to everyone who views the target page.

sounds like a good way to shut down supporters of XYZ cause
All of these questions should of been researched to death before you leaped.
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I think simple is the wrong word. CSS is flexible but it's also predictable (aside from browser issues). It's powerful but it's also just a text file. It has a learning curve, but once you know it, you can bang out a basic CSS file in minutes. I'm sure some of this applies to Office styles, but there's so much more too them. There's all these dialog boxes and sometimes stuff jumps around when you hover over an option, and all the formatting code itself is obscured so if something breaks, it's harder to diagnose what went wrong. There's no simple textual representation of the whole style all in one place. You can't do anything meaningful in Office styles by typing two lines of text, but you can in CSS. To me, that gives a feeling of simplicity, or perhaps lightness or understandability is a better word.

Not to mention, CSS files will probably outlive Office styles by quite a few years, so there's a sense of permanence which I also find comforting.
On that note, I've just started using ion3 (http://www.modeemi.fi/~tuomov/ion/), which is a similarly-focused tiling, keyboard-friendly window manager. I'm still unsure about how useful it is on my laptop, but at work where I have huge monitors, it's great. I never move my windows anyway, so there's no point in spending time aligning them, or wasting the space between them. It is still awkward for certain applications, though.
The design feels very clunky. I could be wrong, but my gut reaction is that the spacing seems off, colors seem off, font-sizes seem off, and the visual hierarchy isn't immediately apparent. Fix those minor quibbles and I think you've got a winner, since, most importantly, the results look very good.
I'm the guy who quit with OP. In fact, his lead engineer (on paper). There's an interesting dynamic when two people quit at the same time. Game theory time!

We do have a fair amount of leverage when it comes to negotiating severance pay, due to our knowledge of distributed architecture.

But yes, we're committed 150% to the startup. And submitted our YC application a few days ago :)
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I see it more as loopt simply turning on the "foursquare" ability of their established network. Question is can they retain the coolness and fun while doing it, and how long can foursquare retain the oooooo feel before it becomes lame and overcrowded cause it sure as hell gonna be that way soon.
We always know that Aaron will be in charge of all of Quicken’s online and desktop products in the original deal. Why the surprise?

While I respect Aaron's decision, I think Jason just wants to point out we have lost the Scott Cook, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs of our generation because of this deal. 10 years later, will you still remember a general manager inside Intuit? Or will someone write a book about a general manager inside a corporation? We will forget about him very soon. In Jim Collins' words, leading entrepreneurs defined success on a very big scale. Their ambitions are huge. I don't think Aaron has done anything wrong. But as a young entrepreneur, we just lost someone who we can look up to.

Also, Steve Jobs returned to Apple to be CEO but not a general manager of a department.

Give you another point of view here. CEO of Redfin also agrees with what Jason Fried said. See the link below:

http://blog.redfin.com/blog/2009/10/honey_i_shrunk_the_start...
You sound confused. This is the better option.
True enough; it's just that in technical venues one always has the feeling that people still consider the political process to be irrelevant, that the Internet has stopped the business cycle and so on. And it just keeps not being true.
I've seen that gallery, but it's more a showcase of external projects than a bunch of feature examples.

The NodeBox gallery shows a lot of cool projects (something that Graphviz and matplotlib only hint at), but it's not much use for a new user who wants to look at pretty pictures, and then tinker with the code.

If you want to find out how to draw a graph in NodeBox, you click on the "graph" gallery. Then you click on the "graph" wikilink. Then you scroll through the graph tutorial until you find some code that you can run. You still can't re-create the gallery picture, but you can do something similar, I guess.

In graphviz and matplotlib, you go from the gallery image to the code that created it in one click. It's much easier to discover their features.

Like I said though, NodeBox looks very cool. The images are slick, it looks very powerful, and the community looks very smart.
I am surprised at the negative responses you've received in the last ten minutes of posting this, it is very much against the spirit of what usually occurs.

1) The book that I've seen mentioned the most often in the area of negotiation is not actually directly on that topic. It is just a general book on "getting it your way" - Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends and influence people".

2) I am in NYC, there are local python-nyc and ruby-nyc user groups, and they get a decent amount of traffic with people asking for help on various projects, a lot full-time, but occasionally a part-time gig offer comes up. Research the equivalent in your area.
He's saying, you put yourself in a precarious financial position, and you're not going to have any negotiating leverage with anybody.
it's perfectly reasonable to believe that the words a person used did not clearly reflect the thoughts in their head

Sure, but that's by definition not sarcasm.
Slightly off-topic, but is there any stable background job queue available for PHP (and perhaps MySQL)? I have been using custom hacked solution on top of tokyo tyrant but I will prefer if someone has a mature library.
If you have knowledge they need why not just offer to provide consulting services back to the company while they transition. This way you get to eat and they get a smoother transition.
WebKit, the least bullshit rendering engine available, and also the only one you can realistically target narrowly (iPhone/Android/Pre/etc.).
Have you seen what proportion of Americans own firearms?

If we are talking about treason - which hanging politicians from a lamp post would be - it won't be crowd control with tear gas and riot shields. It will be some police/military with guns vs citizens/police/military with guns.

Fortunately this law will not require that level of trouble. It is so draconian that it will not pass - so long as it is made public. The only way the government can control us is through secrecy. When something is so obviously against the public interest it won't be passed if enough people fight against it. The reason the Patriot act and others stood was because they just didn't effect enough people. If you start talking about losing your internet because your son posted a YouTube clip, voters will get mad.
Actually the first principle of negotiation is to make the other person THINK you have a better option. :)
How do they expect to make other countries adopt US-style takedown rules?
This is so cute. I see you use UserVoice. Are you on a Free account for Tweet Radio?
I think Aaron underestimates the Intuit bureaucracy. He'll have to do a lot of slashing n burning to get stuff to happen. I eagerly await more news on the "Mintification" of Intuit.
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There are much better solutions to deal with these issues without trying to turn ISP's and Website administrators into the second-string secret police!

I know it's a real problem and does deserve attention. But it's one thing if some guy is trying to sell millions of digital copies of the latest Madonna video from some motel in Eastern Europe, but it's quite another if someone uses a few snips of songs in a video he's doing for YouTube!

I've experienced PERSONALLY what I would consider a smart approach and a dumb approach on this.

I did some 30 second little YouTube videos to promote a thing I'm doing... and in a couple of them I used snippets from a couple of popular songs... I'm fairly naive and didn't think much of it because I wasn't selling the videos, but I was promoting my thing (fortunately very benign so that wasn't an issue)! Though it could be a fair concern...

Anyway, to make a long story short...

Their YouTube algorithms or whatever found 'em and did their robot "thing"... but here's the interesting surprise!

On one (with a clip for a Barbara Streisand song) they just added a little button to the bottom of my video identifying the song with a link for purchase! I was fine with that and so were they!(it was Sony) A smart approach!

But for the other, with a great guitar clip from Jeff Beck, they just stripped the audio from my 30 second video... which I suppose was in a way fair... but all that ended up happening is I had a useless video... and they lost an opportunity for some sales... I forgot the publisher on that one... but it was a damn good video!

This obviously doesn't cover all issues but the point is that there are much wiser approaches that this abominable plan.

But politicians are like very stupid carpenters. They only understand hammers... so everything becomes a nail to be pounded into the ground.
I can't help to start a facebook group "Stop Obama Administration to destroy Internet". I see there are a lot of ACTA related groups already formed. All groups should join together if the content is confirmed.
I was really excited for the coffee maker before I thought more about it. If i'm in a place where there is clean drinking water, chances are there's already a coffee maker there. None the less I would buy this phone if it was in the market, and I would pay great sums of money for it.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/06/improved-...
So what is your startup?
"BreakingNews is excited to tell everyone that At least 17 people killed, 45 others injured after a passenger train collides with a freight train near Pakistan's Karachi."
one of the regulars here posted an awesome guide about freelancing. i would look it up but i'm going to grab a beer instead =)
Thanks Yuri! I appreciate your support, or at least constructive evaluation :)

I'm familiar with the book - I'll give it a go. As for my areas, mostly I'm finding people looking for full-time deals related to hadoop/hbase/lucene. Thanks for the reminder though, I'll look "harder".
Looks like you guys are doing something in the database space. Good luck!
Yes we are. Thank you.
For starters, I'd recommend 'How to win friends and influence people' by Dale Caregie and 'How to talk to anyone' by Leil Lowndes.

Freelancing to pay bills also turns out to be a big distraction. I'd recommend exploring other creative ways that don't take your focus off of your startup to pay (or avoid) your bills.
You're getting the wrong lesson out of your experiences. For the record, ignoring athletics and focusing only on student government ignores a whole plethora of non-athletic programs out there.

First off, athletics, which serve a valuable part of the college experience. What's funny is I hated athletics till I went to school that had none and realized just what purpose they were playing at the first college I attended. Sports programs attract certain types of people with certain interests. Kind of like how we intellectual sorts have writers/programmers/artists/scientists, each with their own personalities and interests, athletes too have very similar characteristics between sports. It's not a completely brainwashing clique, but if you like a sport then there's a good chance people who like that sport too will get along with you in more ways than one.

Most extracurricular activities are solely for the purpose of entertainment. Student Atheist Club, Board Game Club, all the frats, exist so that you can find whatever sort of entertainment you're looking for. If you like debating religion, there's a club for that. You do it for fun, not as part of an ongoing business agenda. It's for being nonserious and whimsical.

As for your own experience: You seem to think that just because you worked in a shitty program, all college programs have to be shitty. That's not how it works. Some of them are very polished and tightly-run, just as some companies are shitty and some are great.

But they all have that social college element, and that's what counts. When you do work on your own, you miss out on the people around you, you miss the chance to be with dozens of people. Now, I've heard the "misanthrope" defense, where you don't like 99% of people and so don't mind missing out on them, and my response to that is that if you're in a college where you hate everybody, you're in a bad college. Transfer to a place where everybody is incredible by your standards. They exist, because somebody like you at some point decided to make a place like that and it worked. This is why you want to research your college opportunities before you go to a mindbogglingly shitty place.

Now, my college is the sort of college where in your class you work on actively making the college a better place and where a part of graduation is interning with a company and securing a potential job offer after graduation, so perhaps I'm spoiled by my "nonreal" college stuff, but all the people complaining about how bad college was seem to be people who just ended up at shitty colleges.
We're good. We just want to be "more good". Bootstrapping cash.
Awesome. We are interested in learning about all the different use cases.
If you actually want to make your startup work, avoid freelancing. It's way too easy to get sucked into spending all of your time consulting, and it's pretty difficult to be fully mentally engaged in multiple projects. Also, the hardest part of freelancing is when you're just starting out. If you don't already have clients or a reputation, you'll spend all of your time trying to find clients and bidding on projects.

During this time, you won't be making any money, and the money you do make will probably be shitty because your clients will be the kind you find on craigslist that want you to build them "a facebook for X" in exchange for a sandwich. More importantly, all of this time will be time you didn't spend developing your startup.
Thanks for the tip! I'll remember that from now on.
Yes, but only to an extent. Some of the boring stuff ends up being the foundation for something interesting (it just doesn't look that way at the time). Before giving up on something boring, try to find out what it's useful for, then decide.
Slicehost seems to understand that it failed in the keeping-customers-informed area: http://www.slicehost.com/articles/2009/11/4/let-s-talk-about...
I develop initially for Webkit, in part because Coda offers a built-in Webkit preview that makes coding for it very fast and easy. Then I preview it in Opera and Firefox.

I wish every web browser would switch to WebKit. It pains me how bad certain rendering engines are.
The idea is not to be reachable during the outage, it's to avoid filesystem corruption, not lose data in memcached, etc. These things are recoverable, of course, but if you can avoid them for the cost of a $2 battery... then why not?
"Who can recommend good books/articles on negotiation?"

The best book on negotiation, bar none, is "Bargaining for Advantage : Negotiation Strategies for Reasonable People" By Richard Shell.
http://www.amazon.com/Bargaining-Advantage-Negotiation-Strat...
(looks like it is out of print, but used copies seem cheap enough)
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I think TTS as a technology isn't quite there yet..

The radio sounds and overall UI/UX are brilliant though.
Cutting back on your long list of passwords
I work at Atlassian and I kind of assume it's us, partly because everyone else around the Internet seems to think he's talking about us, but mostly because the Fogbugz 7 manifesto talked in all caps about people threatening to "GO OVER TO THE AUSTRALIANS".

There's a good chance he isn't, though, because the company described in that article doesn't really bear a great resemblance to Atlassian.

The business models of Fog Creek and Atlassian are far more alike than they are different. Both companies are developer-founded, private, non-VC funded and growing "within their means". Both aim for bottom-up adoption rather than selling top-down through CIOs, and (although this is apparently changing at FogCreek?) neither have a traditional sales team. Both even started off writing an issue tracker (JIRA, FogBugz) then followed up with a content management app (Confluence, CityDesk).

Before this year we didn't have a growth strategy beyond "sell lots of software, and use the money we get from that to hire more people to make more software and sell that." We've recently got (temporarily) a little more aggressive about hiring because we figured the GFC was a great time for a profitable company to snaffle up any good people who were at loose ends, especially when some of our VC-funded competition were being forced by the same circumstances to lay developers off.

So yeah, we're hiring. http://www.atlassian.com/32/ :)
I'm genuinely excited by this. This is a great chunk of really valuable enhancements, particularly those surrounding inspecting Ajax requests and the debugging -- I make heavy use of both.

Previously I've had to revert to Firebug for specific features -- like seeing formatted JSON -- but I think that's behind me now. Yay!
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If you are a techie, the best freelance/temp work will come from your persistently networking with people and companies that match your interest and expertise. Those may also lead to partnerships or investments or just plain old good advice for your startup.

Of course there can be a lot of difficult balancing required between freelancing and starting up, but many people make it work. The salesmanship, discipline, and customer relations skills you learn freelancing can certainly come in handy in a startup.
Hmm, that's not true for all of them: http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Fireworks http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Cornucopia

but I was working off memory, and you're right, they're not all like that. They should probably be seperated somehow?
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You've made it clear that you haven't been acquainted with modern riot control technology.

tear gas and shields is the OLD stuff. The new stuff hasn't been widely utilized, but it IS widely in place and police and military have been trained on it.

The purpose of these non-lethal riot control methods is to destroy the power of assembly without losing the hearts and minds of the masses.

LRAD is one of the most widely known riot control technologies that is totally TV-friendly. The TV can't even tell that it is being used - in fact unless it is used on you you don't even realize it is being used.

This can be deployed from all kinds of platforms that impersonalize it.

If the public doesn't complain about waterboarding they aren't going to complain about LRAD. And yet LRAD will totally destroy a peaceful demonstration.

You're right that we should be able to get former military and police on our side, but we better hope they mutiny and are able to steal technology.
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And my favorite Linux and Windows browser (Opera) continues its downward descent. It seems a bit unfair to me -- Opera always responds like a lean and mean browser with stability and a dearth of innovative features, but for some reason it never gets any traction. Is Free Software/Open Source that much of an attraction? Maybe it's just me but I have a huge respect for well thought out and well written proprietary software.

Of course, I guess I'm a little bit of a hypocrite since I use Safari on my Mac. At the same time though, no one can really compete with Mac Safari -- its running profile is tiny and integrates with Mac better than any other browser.
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Common sense.
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Danielstraight and NathanKP / please contact me in the email on my profile (I looked for one in yours) I would like to talk to you about how you learned CSS and what frame work your using or tools to Pump out CSS... thanks, rb
Is it the first tweet that's slow ? or overall tweet crawler ?

Thanks.
Please explain how OpenCL fits in with that idea.

What Adobe probably means by "restricting tech" is that Apple does not allow alternative code interpreters on their device, as to not facilitate AppStore circumvention.
Lithium? Don't lead-acid batteries still have a vastly better energy storage to cost ratio?
Best of luck to you with your startup! Here are some good articles about negotiation: http://www.negotiatormagazine.com/subject_index.shtml
Congrats.

Why are you looking for books on negotiation? I don't have any other than the ones mentioned, but the first rule of negotiation is to pretend like you don't give a shit about the favorable outcome, then proceed from that premise and everything will be fine.

This is jacquesm's must read on consulting: http://jacquesmattheij.com/be-consultant
I think the design, the branding, and the result layout have some problems (certainly nothing insurmountable, just needs polish).

However the results blew me away - I consistently get far more useful results than Google (at least for some technical searches). Congrats on this - the product has great potential, and with the declining quality of Google search results (and crappy competition), you have a good shot at breaking into the market.

Good luck!
Just go to everything at first and find what you're interested in. As time goes on you'll settle in to the activities you're most interested in and where you enjoy the company of your fellow participants most.
Come on, the real reason flash "can't perform" is because it would open up a competing app delivery vector that would undermine the app store. One with no approval power.
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In his defense, I also read your original comment as sarcastic.