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I talk about "After the Startup Curve" [1], because the emotional roller-coaster has really only just begun. Take all of the ups and downs from the early months, and then multiply them by years in business and dozens (hundreds?) of team members.

Most of the founders I work with haven't taken funding and don't have the high profile that brings on the haters, which can be advantageous in that it forces you to become a mid-Stage company doing what it needs to do: Ship Great Things.

What do I see as the biggest Mid-Stage Pitfalls?

1) Not Knowing your Business Model

Your Revenue is a formula - Value Proposition x Activity x Conversion. As businesses pivot, and as founders get distracted by all the other 'stuff' in business, their model can wander without them realising.

Always be clear about your Value Proposition - why people are buying from you, and whether there's enough margin and volume for you. Traction [2] is one of the best books I've read regarding activity - keep asking yourself, 'What will move the needle for me?'

2) Celebrating too Fast

Sustainable business growth, for most of us, isn't an 18 month billion-dollar acquisition. It's a constant investment, and it requires your ongoing attention even after it becomes self-sustaining.

At some point you will want to reward yourself for your achievements - energetically, take from the business rather than continuing to give to it. But make that 'Payback' too big and too fast, and things can collapse on you literally overnight. (And often over a 2-4 week period, it's that fast.) This 2 minute video touches on that [3]

3. Needing to be 1 Step ahead of the business

This manifests in a few ways over time. Early on, you're pitching to partners / channels / investors about what the business will be - so you're already one step ahead. But then you ship, you sell, you produce or deliver or whatever, and you become a cog in the business.

You need to pull yourself out and be the CEO, be 1 step ahead. For smaller, lower-growth businesses this can be part of your role, some time each week or month. Over about 24 staff (and less than that if you have big growth plans) it's a full-time role.

And that transition is hard, because it detaches you from the operations and the clients. As Jessica writes, you become a manager (and a leader and an entrepreneur). The business is going on a journey; so are you. And if you're not steering the ship, you'll sail right into a brick wall and find yourself seeking acquisition / funding with a giant "desperate" tattoo on your forehead.

I talked about this journey 'After the Startup Curve', a little more on this recorded webinar, if you're super interested [4].

[1] http://www.shirlawscoaching.co.uk/shirlawsresources/2012/3/3...

[2] http://tractionbook.com/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UN6XUD7Tfg

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLsmN83Z0aU
Do the IntelliJ skin and components have any advantages over Eclipse's SWT in your opinion? My understanding is that Swing is much heavier. In fact, SWT was originally designed for Java 2 Micro Edition [1].

[1]: http://flylib.com/books/en/2.120.1.42/1/
It depends how you want the hardware to work. If you want people to bring their own monitors then you need to support HDMI.

I would expect a docking station that charged the phone and had a built in USB port. Said docking station could hook up via USB-C and use a displayport mode to send the data across of course.

In either case though saying HDMI is for the best as it sends the signal of "works with your hardware" versus "works with hardware we will be releasing".
I hope they can do something about the RAM usage for Node/io.js programs.
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This might be the case if you run servers on single machines rather than in clusters. And if you are running servers on single instances, aren't you already giving yourself a SPOF? If you need a specific server to be running at all times it seems like you have a problem.
This might be the very thing I need on this big 4k screen.

Edit:

Feedback:

- This logo is way too big. Use logo only, no text. I know what browser I'm on already

- Allow the viewports to snap to the side of the screen

- Allow grid. Right now, I have a lot of websites horizontally but this vertical space is wasted

- Allow me to have a regular search bar

- Allow me to zoom / un-zoom individual viewports

- I feel like the new tab button (+) should open an address
bar when I click it, and not a whole new tab to about:newtab. But that's personal opinion

- I can't pin tabs (make them smaller)

- How do I remove Firefox Hello?

- I wish there was a way to view all my open tabs as thumbnails in the main viewport (a bit like about:newtab) and be able to manage them from there (close, reorder)

- Bookmark toolbar should be displayed when I'm in a new tab

- The whole thing is a bit laggy

- I should be able to have a website opened in a tab but hide the viewport (pin tabs?)

- about:newtab breaks on small width displays

- I can't select multiple tabs by holding command key
> Android 4.3+ devices, including those by Samsung, HTC, LG, Sony, Huawei, and Xiaomi, have their own default browser on the homescreen

What exactly is he talking about? I have a Sony Xperia Z1 Compact and on the home screen i have Google Chrome and Google Play Store claims i have the official Google Chrome version installed and the only other browser i have on there is firefox.
Translation: "Hi, I'm Marek Dlugos and I'm the most pretentious 19 year old ever"
There are plenty of different HTTP benchmarking applications for Unix OS' but I still have not found a good one for Windows. Anybody come across one?
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Er my bad, meant diagonal.
Well they are returning some capital, so perhaps the damage isn't quite that bad.
Thank you @soneca a lot for your advice. I think you are right and I will remember it.
It is a pretty old technology. Compatibility with S/KEY?
Assuming you don't use Play Services you can run an Android application under any fork of the AOSP, or anything with a compatibility layer for it (like Jolla or now Win10). You can run Windows applications under, uhh, Windows.
You don't need to run both if you don't want to. People would be fine with the phone turning off its display if that were necessary.

The real problem is USB-C which would be necessary to both charge your phone and have it connect devices.
Bohmiian mechanics is a non-local hidden variable theory of Quantum Mechanics. Any result from traditional QM should hold with Bohmian Mechanics, including the ability to perform quantum computations. We have a reasonable certainty that QM is possible thanks to a Threshold Thereom http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9702029. Additionally, it is quite easy to run algorithms with a small amount of qubits (5-10) that show that theory holds and should continue to hold as more qubits are added. It has become a scaling problem, which hopefully can be solved with time.
Thanks... do you know if files save as UTF8 w/o BOM by default? Most MS/Windows apps seem to set BOM, which is problematic in nix tools.
executives sell a bunch of stock right before public companies announce bad news or go bust it often warrants an insider trading investigation

Secret isn't a public company. Secret's investors are insiders themselves.
This idea became much more palatable to me when I went to a restaurant after work to grab some take-out for dinner. I walked inside and saw no one sitting down but the kitchen staff were furiously working and cooking. I thought it was so strange and wondered who they were cooking for. And then all of a sudden I saw: 1 postmates courier, 1 doordash courier and 1 caviar worker all walk in with giant bags. I realized how this new trend is going to change restaurants and make them more 'lean'. No need to spend crazy amount of money for location, no need for a huge seating area, no need for expensive storage machines. Just a kitchen and distribution.
> * Create new product to great fanfare

> * New product sees wide adoption

> * Many competitors to new product die off due to Google's monopolistic practices

> * Google decide supporting the now-standard product is not lucrative enough and abandon it

> * Massive ecosystem gap

In my lifetime this has gone from describing Microsoft to describing Google. Amazing!
I'm not sure I buy the ecosystem argument. We've recently seem other languages come from out of nowhere, with no ecosystem, to become major languages (Golang, for example).

I don't think there's really anything stopping OCaml from being more widely adopted, except for lack of attention from trend-setters.
I think he puts the "Facts" out there with a grain of salt - and admits it in the preamble. They're very much a source of discussion rather than hard and true facts. (Software engineering is a social science where experiments are virtually impossible to replicate. As such, it's only slightly more rigorous than "Facts" in History or Political Science classes.)
First thing to do when getting a new Android phone (or flashing a new rom): Install Firefox
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I think the huge ecosystem of apps out there thoroughly disproves your point.

Honestly I love the permission scheme of the app stores compared to my desktop. Being able to control what the app can do is massively better than the desktop system of "runs as user".

On the topic of root, I would hope we would work towards a time when it wasn't necessary rather than using it as a crutch.
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What's almost as interesting as what they've built is that they've built this based on Firefox. It's impressive that the UI can be so thoroughly re-imagined with not that much code (not to say it is a trivial project, or to diminish the work put into it; it's very impressive).

I've never thought "I want a panoramic browser", but I never thought I wanted tabs until I had them, and a dozen other large and small now-mandatory features. I'm looking forward to playing with it, to see if it unlocks usage patterns and new efficiency in the way tabs did. Or, perhaps it'll cure some of the negatives of tabs (losing my train of thought, a tendency to always be multitasking poorly, etc.).
Also, the $6M cash could have also been worth $600M. In that case, would the OP want the investors to give some money back to the Secret founders..?
Oh yea? I'll do it for $9M.
I'm not at home right now so I can't test it out, but I'm wondering how heavy it is?

Some website are already hard to render, I wonder what happens when more than one of them are rendered at the same time, side by side!
Wow, that's draconian. Are there any devices a bit more open that are in the same price range and support the same feature set?
"premature optimization" is statement setting itself up for negativity. Of course "premature" optimization is bad - so is basically anything else that happens prematurely.

That's not to deny thoughtful optimization when logical, even before the program runs. I've often found Knuth's quote to be interpreted as "Performance doesn't matter - just get it to run".

Which as Knuth points out, for "one shot" programs is probably fine, but for anything in the longer term is damaging.
If I understand correctly, you are asking the browser to provide a workaround for a website that isn't optimised for mobile, and asking that browser to maintain that workaround forever?

I'm surprised they ever tried to do this in the first place.

Reddit has now had a hell of a long time to deliver a mobile-optimised site, responsive or otherwise. I feel like your criticisms would be better directed towards them.

Edit: Btw I'm sure some people may comment that it's not just Reddit and there are 1000's of sites that were more easily viewable on a text-wrapping Android browser previously. That's undoubtedly true, but how will the web ever move on from its fixed-width-desktop-sized past if we don't force the offending websites to fix their broken fixed-width styles. We can't workaround that bad idea forever.
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Apple finds defect in its Apple Watch: DJ, citing sources
So networked thin-clients?
Aaron’s Law Reintroduced: Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Didn’t Fix Itself
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I like the idea of having Chrome out there but I am not going to use it.

I like having another serious competitor in the browser market to keep everyone else on their toes.

I find Chrome to be unusable. I can't get past the lack of a menu bar. Maybe that's picayunish but I find it so distracting that I can't use the browser at all.
This is especially true with Excel and Access (and to a limited extent PowerPoint). It's insane how much business logic can (and often does) live inside some random Excel spreadsheet.
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Ask HN: How do you get a job in another part of the country?
How do you get a job in another part of the country where you cannot network due to your location?
How does this change when you are straight out of school?
your sources are bad and you should stop reading them, I've read both of the links you posted before when they were ripped apart by mainstream economists
I'm disappointed to see Microsoft give up the UX control on their platform. I bought a Windows Phone because I like the WP UX better than Android or iOS. I'm also skeptical of the returns for Microsoft. How many users want the apps on Android or iOS but don't want an Android or iOS phone?

I can see how Microsoft wants to make the software play. They want to have all the apps available on their phone so they turn away as few people as possible. However, I think phones are still too focused on platform for this to work. The experience already varies widely across devices on the same OS (low end v.s. high end), I have difficulty seeing how it would be acceptable cross-compiled to windows phone.
Have you ever tried MobaXterm? I use that as my daily driver shell and am very happy with it! Both for ssh to remote boxes and as a local command prompt

http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/
The quality of the Deliverance food is, politely, really not great. I think these guys are approaching it from a different angle; Deliverance always struck me as a restaurant that delivers, and without the restaurant...
That dates from another era, when people thought of "air travel" as "relaxing" and "fun".

For a sense of what it used to be like, see Air Hollywood's "Pan Am Experience."[1] This is a replica of a Pan Am first class 747 flight from the 1970s, done on the ground by a prop house that bought an old 747, took off the wings, and uses it for film productions. It costs about $400, you don't go anywhere, and the food is really good.

Also, the PSA stewardess class of April 1974.[2]

[1] http://airhollywood.com/panamexp/
[2] http://www.jetpsa.com/stewgrad/stewgrad/7404.jpg
And being blocked by basically everything in existence. I installed a desktop on Linode and Google blocked me from even their search product. Many other sites had blocks set up or at least CAPTCHAs. If you have browsing activity coming from a datacenter, everyone assumes it's a bot. Geo IP gets messed up too. Really hard to get any work done like that.
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Miguel de Icaza is on the board and not an MSFT employee.
Unfortunately the update reboot cycle is incredibly reliable, which is why it has persisted. Can't beat "millions of machines have taken these steps".

Thoroughly agree that a more simplified method would be awesome though.
PayPal adopts ARM servers, gets mightily dense
And if it is expected of everyone, then they are not "superheroes" (exceptional individuals) anymore, only regular employees, and the regular ones (those who have a life outside work) are pushed down to the mediocre employee category.

I also hate when HR people or bosses equate the time spent being at work with effort (and let's not talk about efficiency or work output quality.) Being a great parent while working 40 or even 50 hours a week is still a remarquable achievement.
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What have they removed in this way? IMHO Reducing menu clutter should be done by making an "advanced" settings tab, not by requiring extensions...
This is not basic supply and demand. You're making the common error of applying the laws of perfect competition to a complex, non-zero-sum marketplace. So suppose more people do substitute away from McDonalds to cooking at home; that means more jobs in the supermarket and consumer packaging industries, to name but two.

anyone with a low paying unskilled job should be doing anything in their power to develop needed and in demand jobs so they can raise their earning potential

Guess what, taking classes or developing a new skill often costs money, even with the internet, community college subsidies and so on. If you only pay people barely enough to live, then there's nothing left over for them to invest in career development.
What makes you think you'll be blackballed from most firms in the city? So you don't get to use them as a reference. Who cares? The company isn't allowed to disclose why they fired you. You can just say "it wasn't a good fit for me" in your next interview. If they do pry and you acknowledge you were let go, explain the reasoning (and remain objective without placing blame), and they might see your side, too, or understand that you'll be a good employee.

I think you're way over-thinking this. Being terminated from a job doesn't ruin your prospects for any future position.
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Pizza businesses have basically operated like this for years.
That's one very interesting move.

We already have BlackBerry and Amazon AppStore flavors for our apps (without google login, cast, or anything else from the play services lib). So it should be trivial to add one more for Windows.

I wonder about the UX of such a port though. Windows apps don't really look like android ones (or iOS's for that matter). Sure, it should bring more app but I can't help but worry for the general experience of the platform.
Oh hey the CLR finally achieved platform independence. Which is great because it is great.
"yet another hipster technology manifesto" so good content. I guess it is a good summary what is wrong with the tech industry (lots of "solutions" are abused, built for different era, etc.) and also bashes a bit on technology like node.js but not too much. Entertaining read.
Secret SEC Form D
If you're looking for another browser with reflow support, Firefox on Android supports it.
We've tapped into Firefox's ability to asynchronously render websites, meaning that the load on one website doesn't slow down the rest... That feature isn't even released yet as a standard feature on desktop Firefox, but we are able to tap into it already.
The point of selling the company is to get liquidity. The point of founder cash-out rounds is to align incentives between the founders and investors. Investors have an incentive to see the company "Go big or go home", because they spread their bets across a whole portfolio of companies. Founders have an incentive to play it much safer, because their whole net worth is locked up in one company and without cash-out rounds, they have a strong incentive to take the first acquisition offer that leaves them financially independent rather than shoot for the one that maximizes the VC's financial outcomes.

I'm not close enough to Secret to know whether the system functioned as intended here. It's possible (and suspicious, given the timing of the rounds and subsequent redesign that trashed their brand) that Secret rode the hype machine, cashed out at the top of the Secret bubble, and left investors holding the bag. But it's also possible (and likely, given public statements made and their hiring behavior) that this was a good-faith investment by VCs seeking a return in a company that honestly thought they were on to the next big thing and cashed out so that their risk-tolerance would be aligned as they shot for the next big thing. In that case, the founder cash-out functioned exactly as intended, it just didn't have the outcome anyone was hoping for.
In which we compare an open source project that people are compiling and building versions of (Chromium), with a Google Product (Chrome), and pretend that versions of the former are versions of the latter.

In other news, GCC continues to fall apart at a brisk pace, with literally every distro shipping slightly different versions.
Does the pan feature work with touchscreens? That would be very, very, very fancy!
I have a better-than-retina 3200x1800 13.3" Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro display and this is hard to read. I see this argument all the time, but I really don't think HiDPI displays are to blame, OS X maybe.
Deliverance has a fixed and fairly extensive menu, which has minor seasonal updates, compared to this, where the menu is very limited and changes daily.
I wish it was working at least on Yosemite properly.
That's silly. Everybody involved understood why the founders would choose to do this. It has everything to do with risk and opportunity and likely nothing to do with some kind of malevolent avarice.

And bailing while returning a significant sum to investors takes courage. It's easier to sit in board meetings and pound the table and tell them how you're going to turn things around, even if you don't believe it.
So, all else being equal (which it never is, but roll with it), and had they paid everyone another $1/hour, they'd be making a loss.

You're applying annual wage costs to quarterly profits.
Wow. Parts of that demo really seem to be inspired from Android. The hamburger menu, the black navigation bar at the bottom, the slide out menus etc.

But the potential really is in the Phone->PC continuum. If I can take a beefy x86 phone (Intel seems to be inching closer to that reality) running windows and use it like phone most time and then dock it onto a big screen with keyboard and mouse - that really is a killer feature. It could change things in Microsoft's favor if they manage to get the integration and hardware parts right.

(I should say that the concept is not new - Motorola tried that with the Atrix - but it was underpowered hardware, flakey software and little integration that killed it. From the looks of it Microsoft seems to be geared to address all three rather well.)
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When Apple first said they would only allow a single web rendering engine on iOS, at first I was heavily against the idea. But now as a web developer who is absolutely not looking forward to the inevitable "people running around with 10 version out of date Chromium browsers", I'm starting to think Apple had the right idea. I can test a website on a single iOS device and know it will work the same on all devices in that version of iOS even if they are using "Chrome on iOS" or "Opera on iOS" or any other browser. I have no idea how I'm supposed to test a site for 13 different Chromium forks. And as time goes on, they will only grow more and more divergent from the main Chromium branch, which means they won't have bug fixes or new features.
I'm an expat myself so I'm curious about this.. Were their visas tied to their work contract? Did they have their families living with them?

As an anecdote, when I first moved abroad I was single and didn't speak the local language (Dutch) so I didn't really have any incentive to interact socially outside of work and I ended up spending way too many hours in the office but just about managing to do my job competently because I was pretty sad and demotivated all the time and often doubted my decision to move abroad.