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I know we look different, but really, we're all about the same; this is electricity; this is called a lens; this is the scientific method; keep your animals further apart; prosperity through trade, not war and looting; drink hot tea and beer; mix tallow and ash.

Oh, and of course:
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"Charging money for attention gets you neither money nor attention."

Yet HE pays attention. OH SNAP.
As others have mentioned, you will fit right in to the Berkeley "scene". You are going to be taking BART and CalTrain a lot, since Berkeley has little in the way of venture capital and not a huge hacker community outside of the university. If you were willing to compromise on your principles somewhat then a zipcar membership and a place in Mountain View would probably serve your long-term goals a lot better. Caltrain is close, you are at the confluence of highways 101, 280, & 85 and you are sitting in the metaphorical heart of silicon valley. The weekly farmers market is year-round, you can bike to whole foods and some nice asian groceries, castro street has nice coffeeshops and a bit of a nightlife, you could probably walk to the hacker dojo, and an occasional car trip will get you everything else you need. The only thing it really lacks is a good bookstore, but you can train/bike to either the university bookstore on stanford campus or digitalguru in sunnyvale.
Why don't app developers just make versions with additional features for purchase via Cydia?
It's still pretty cool to get your webapp listed there :)
Anyone paste the text of the article? Maybe I'm just silly but I will never ever ever register somewhere just to read an article. Maybe this throws a spanner in News Corps plans as well, or maybe I'm not most people.
I think animal milk is sort of like the tomato: a wonderful, wonderful food which we think is long established and universally appreciated but which is, on historical and global scales, rounding error in terms of the human diet.

Widespread consumption of animal milk is like Things White People Like, 1850 AD Edition. (Really. Most milk sold at the time was buttermilk, a biproduct of the consumption of butter. The rest was considered agricultural waste and fed to hogs.)

If you take a quick glance around the world even today, consumption of liquid animal milk is still not the norm outside of the West. (Japan is changing but, even in the mid-twentieth century, "smells like butter" was one euphemism to refer to the Americans.)
That's not a nod to mobile payments - but because Pizza Hut offers a 20% discount for using your iPhone to order a pizza.
It's being served as text/x-python, which I think is appropriate. So it's not the server that's "forcing" a download, it's your client. I suspect you're using FireFox, which seems AFAICT to be b0rken in this regard.
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In addition to this, another great Haskell+monads learning source is Real World Haskell, whose exercises will have you implement your own monads without telling you, and then reveal the surprise later.

Well, it would have been a surprise, but I just spoiled it. Anyway, get reading :)
Much as I enjoy xkcd, I have to point out that it doesn't have a monopoly on stick men. Prior art and all that.
Check out unduchtables (http://www.undutchables.nl/) they have jobs for people like you, and they can probably help you with a lot of the other stuff.
compared to Canada you'll find that housing is quite a bit smaller than you're used to. Especially if you want to live in or near the centre of any larger city. However, I would encourage you to compromise on space when searching for housing, rather than searching a large house in an unfortunate location. The city centres are a so much nicer place to live than the outskirts (in my opinion any way). Finally, cars are very expensive here, and trafic (especially rushhour trafic) is terrible. Being able to use public transport or a bicycle to get to work is a big (BIG!) plus, so try to look out for that when looking for work and a place to live.
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> Are you suggesting that people not connect their computer to the internet? Otherwise, I have no idea what point you are making.

No. I'm saying that being connected to the internet has inherent risks. Being in the internet 24/7 like the cloud would obviously have as much, or more, risks.

>For most people, this is more likely to happen to their local pc!

Statistically speaking, maybe. But we all think that we can keep our data and stuff safer than other people can. At least people have control over something on their computers. Plus, by putting our data in more places, we increase the risk of it being stolen. You will probably already have a local copy. Keeping it in the cloud just adds another point of failure.
Not sure Steve Jobs's tendency to criticize is specific to in-house prototypes, though.
I think that his point is not that it's an unholy practice, but more so that, for general consumers, Black Friday isn't what it's portrayed to be.

It's one thing if a family wants to hop down to the local Best Buy after thanksgiving to see if they can find any good deals. It's another thing if that store is packed with people who had similar ideas.

It's a completely different thing if the store is made up entirely of professionals who have conducted advanced research, commissioned line placeholders, and are specifically targeting all the 'deals' for the purposes of arbitrage.

In other words, just because I like playing pickup basketball doesn't mean I'm morally opposed to professional ball. Additionally, it may be useful for me to know in advance that this weekend's "basketball in the park" day is actually a highly-competitive tournament.
Generally speaking, anything the C++ guys don't like is good.
On the tour page. Two options. ( Side note, if this was a uni paper, I would have said you padded it out with really large images, can they be a little smaller? Do you need to show the whole screen? Could the images work without being in context ( ie where your numbers are )

One:

Use an index so people can jump to a specific part. Then the index can help sell or prepare them for what they are about to see.

Two: ( more work )

Use "personas".

I am a student learning french. - then give them links to show how the site will work well for them.

I am a teacher of chemistry and I really like videoing my experiments - again a few click thrus targeting this type of user.

etc...

With your personas, dont aim to fill up all features in all personas, just think what will work for them.
I would shudder at the thought. You already have it built and have no use for the iphone development environment so there is no use to accept the hefty split in purchase price with Apple. Only positive is getting listed in the App Store. And the usefulness of that is getting more doubtful as the number of apps increases.
If you google "bromidically", this response is now number 2 in Google - after dictionary.com.
I think there's a need for a high end cross platform toolkit/framework for developing web apps that provide some high-end stuff for iphone and android but also can degrade gracefully for "phone" phones that have crappier browsers. Ideally this would work like unobtrusive javascript, instead of having to have two views.

I'm currently investigating building a better mobile web presence for an application. The solution for us so far has been to mangle WURFL to a faster format and use that to detect properties of the current device from the UserAgent (width/height mainly). The WURFL way is to do a lehvenstein calculation on the current user agent versus all the agents in the db, pretty expensive computation.

This puts the crappiest phones first, because the web we build is very restricted by the poor phones, but the truth is that iPhone/Android is rapidly approaching 50%, because they are more likely to actually use the mobile internet.

To build this could quite possibly be a javascript layer on top of a basic REST structure.
Congratulations on making headway in the "enterprise space". With that in mind, could you not approach a few of them and ask them to write testimonials to be used on your site?
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You can not do too much to boost Fox news today.
No matter if you like (I do) or do not, the consumer want
less of right-wing stuff. He'll probably invent something
out of this scandal, but won't return "old good times".
Why won't you ever register?

They are spending resources (time, money, etc) to create content. In exchange for access to their content they ask you to spend 30 seconds registering.

Sometimes, the content in question isn't worth the 30 seconds of overhead to register for. But, sometimes it is. And, often times, it's worth a lot more (e.g., I'm a paying subscriber to The Economist, Foreign Affairs, Linux Journal, Make, etc).

I personally think the FT puts out enough consistently high quality stuff that it's worth the 30 seconds of my time to register in exchange for access. I could see how you might disagree though. But, what I don't understand is how you think there is no possible content that is worth 30 seconds of overhead to access.
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From one of the comments on techcrunch, it says the video commenting is easier than the seesmic approach. Although this may be true, I think there are more fundamental issues at play:

- it's quicker to type a comment than make a video comment
- i once read someone say most people don't look good enough on camera to make video comments!
- often commenting sections of blogs become arguements, if someone can see you, it potentially gives them more ammunition to diss you personally (e.g you're fat, short, dumb looking etc)
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Sid Meier is one of my programming heroes. I'd love to see a "Coders At Work" with only game programmers (instead of mostly language designers).
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"You have viewed your 30 days allowance of 2 free articles. If you wish to view more, you can register for free by clicking on the button below."

How do they know this, I cleared my cookies/cache... Are they blocking by IP? Seems a little shady.
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It seems very interesting, but there is one thing I do not like, and that is having the menubar on the side. I always feel as though I'm losing so much screen real estate to it. (This is also the reason why I stopped using iGoogle as my homepage) Does anyone have any links to usability research that shows that having menus on the side vs the top is better? It looks like a few people are going this way in their designs, and I am wondering if it is just to make their product look different and new, or if there is actually sound logic behind the changes.
This is the explanation of Monads that made it click for me.

I actually had déja vu because I had written code very much like this before in Haskell. It got ugly real quick, and I remember thinking 'there has to be a better way of doing this'. Turns out I was right.
No, but it still takes something away from the whole when you know it's flat out wrong. It's like starting out "Since the earth is flat, we believe files should be too".
It's not a logical reaction, it's a kneejerk reaction that grows of out an entitlement mentality that says everything on the web should be open, unrestricted, and free.

Before you vote me down, let me confess that I also fall into this camp: I often find myself spending hours to avoid spending $10, without even thinking about it.

This attitude is part of why tech people make lousy markets.
"The lists in this article may contain items that are not notable, encyclopedic, or helpful. Please help out by removing such elements and incorporating appropriate items into the main body of the article"

I have to agree, listing all funded organizations is not useful. Just list those which are notable, and mention the total count somewhere
Seems to me, messing with immense flat files is going to be faster iff you have a Computer Scientist of an equal caliber to the ones who wrote <insert professional SQL DB here> to optimize your indexing and storage formats and disk access patterns and whatnot. That is, at the very least, going to be expensive.

It may just be simpler to just throw Oracle/Hadoop and hardware at the problem.
How can the system help those who are disadvantaged while not indirectly encouraging people to be financially irresponsible?

I'm going to take a potentially unpopular opinion here, but I think that a public system of education shouldn't concern itself with either of those two problems, and should instead operate on the principles of: (1) providing education, (2) to everyone, (3) equally.

The current trend of tuition hikes tend to violate (2) and compensating for this by engaging in price discrimination tends to violate (3).

To achieve all goals, tuition for a public university needs to be something that a graduate from said institution can reasonably repay without an undue burden; all students should pay the same rate; any further subsidization of a particular student's tuition by the public should be based on performance or assisting students in particular disciplines; and loans should be offered to all students.
Does anyone know who did the artwork for the site? It's beautiful stuff.

Example: http://heroku.com/pricing#ronin-1
Well, the thing is, design scales. Having a single person doing design is not a limit to scalability. Having a single person doing customer support, or sales, or implementation can be. Crowds of geniuses tend to lead to the opposite of scalability.
I didn't mean to imply that it would be a bad thing if dnd from one window to another wasn't possible. I personally hate the dnd metaphor, which IMHO is an example of GUI designers gone wild, and would love to see it replaced with something else.
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If it builds a community it could really stand to challenge Arduino, especially if someone develops an intuitive software environment for it.
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Some credit cards offer that service: you are registered with them, go to their site, get a one-use number with a charge limit you pick. You provide that to the merchant, the "card number" validates fine.

In my corner, the banks have associated and offer a single site that covers American Express, MasterCard and VISA. (Site, in Portuguese, is here: https://www.mbnet.pt )
Is there a good place somewhere to find a list of all the YC alumni? The YC homepage sure ain't it.
Because the article might be stupid. They might popup ads.

It's like a busker asking for a tip before they play anything.

My point is: Let me judge the content first, THEN ask me to signup/subscribe.
I know one guy who sells a zip utility who swears by them. That said, I'm with you: it strikes me as highly likely that the increase in my blood pressure will cost me a lot more than the marginal revenue gained. In addition to having confused customers to worry about, I simply do not want moral association with many of things sold via CPA offers, even on TrialPay (which is, by all accounts, an upright and honest company in a pond of scum).
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I completely agree with your sentiment. Listing all Y Combinator participants may approach what Wikipedians label "fancruft" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fancruft)

"Fancruft is a term sometimes used in Wikipedia to imply that a selection of content is of importance only to a small population of enthusiastic fans of the subject in question. The term is a neologism derived from the older hacker term cruft, describing obsolete code that accumulates in a program."
yes, I think Mobile payments will be huge in the US, if carriers can come to their senses and allow it to happen.

I wonder if RFID integration with mobile phones will also gain traction at all, like Mobile FeliCa in Japan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FeliCa
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idk, I can see myself paying for really outstanding content (maybe), but I want to be able to judge that content freely first without being forced to signup.
I respectfully disagree. Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful. I especially dig for stories of funded startups which eventually shutdown so as to learn what went wrong for them inspite of having funding. Maybe one can categorize on basis of _notability_ but the list should have all YC startups.
Any inspiration of some cool stuff that can be built with their API?
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Another excellent introduction to monads for experienced imperative programmers, particularly those familiar with C#, is here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/wesdyer/archive/2008/01/11/the-marvels...
I keep a list of every YC startup I've found here:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l...

I compiled the info as part of my master's thesis this summer. Likely not 100% correct, but very close.
Yeah. Poor innocent CEOs have no idea, just no idea, where all those tens of millions of dollars are coming from. And they "are committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct in the workplace and in all business dealings and operations" (Orbitz, one of the named companies, at http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=212312&p=iro...).

Perhaps they can explain how this differs from a shopkeeper that stations a pickpocket at the till, handles him the customer's wallet, and divvies up the loot.
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Having all YC funded startups at one place is incredibly useful

There are lots of things which are useful but not notable and do not belong in an encyclopaedia.
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The ease would be in not having to sign up in the first place. Place your order, put in your phone number, answer yes and you're done. Smaller sites would be the winners.

You could also more easily implement time-delayed transactions. Make to order-deliveries sometimes don't charge up front, but instead opt to charge when they're about to deliver. If you (the seller) could send a simple SMS asking for payment, or phone a number when you (the buyer) got the invoice instead of having to sign in with your bank on your computer it'd make life easier for at least some people.
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"Prior art" -- nice.
nice read...
It would be interesting to get an estimate of the aggregate exit values of YC start-ups so far (i.e wealth created)
In europe, there are mobile telephone services providers who don't operate their own network. In a sense, they are resellers for the network operators. This allows them to innovate in areas where the network operators don't do this, without big up-front investments in creating your own network.
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I agree, but taking a code comment that says something is being adjusted does not mean a lot. Any criticism would have to look at what is being adjusted and how. You'd have to make a statistical argument based on the model.

I am a skeptic as well, but the way these emails and code comments are analysed is entirely meaningless.

However, it goes to show how incredibly stupid it is for scientists to not be as transparent as possible in the first place.
And it's close enough to Antwerp, where you would go to the movies, because apparently there are no theatres in the Netherlands...
I was at a pompously titled Software Craftsmanship conference, and one of the questions going around was: "what is the minimum commit size?"

My first guess was one character, since you can fix a bug by changing one character. But in the 'P' vs 'p' case, minimum size could be larger - fixing the calling code is fine, but is there a change that can be made to stop this bug appearing in other calling code? Eg, simplify the interface so that one of the 'p's is protected, so that the wrong Percent can't be set by accident.
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Please do not add things like "seriously" to headlines of articles. This might seem like a silly request but such additions ruin sites like these on the long run. Take a look at reddit.com to get an idea. It is "contra-honest" news sharing.

And everyone else, please do not upvote me. This comment is irrelevant to the discussion.
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Especially one as tight on space as Wikipedia.

Kidding aside, I think having a 'scorecard' somewhere is pretty interesting, and quite relevant to YC. Maybe Wikipedia isn't the right place though?
Agreed. There is of course nothing virtuous about anything being difficult. I personally just feel that Linux has its charm in its rawness.
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sigh As a die-hard inclusionist, I'll never understand deletionism...

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