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{ "score": 0, "text": "Am I alone in feeling that this headline is self-aggrandizing snobbery?Facebook succeeds by providing universal access: it must be a tool that anyone can use.Is a hammer geared to dullards? Is a coffee mug?Just because it is simple enough for everyone to use doesn't equate to being \"geared for dullards\". I know it's cool to hate on Facebook, but attacking them for one of their key successes is absurd.Now whether Facebook attracts dullards is another matter entirely....Edit: It's clear that the article references research which is actually interesting and on-topic. However, I'm disappointed to see a headline like this on HN, which both misrepresents and colors the research." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "If I have any social networking anxiety, it's not about friend count. It's anxiety over wasting my life catering to wannabe web personalities trying to build a following via attention-whoring or wasting precious moments of my life scrolling through every mundane update every idiot on my list posts when their new baby farts (or, worse, the ultra sound images and the nine months of constant uninteresting updates that follow).Am I a snob for not giving a fuck about every single second of your life? Fine. Call me a snob, then. My time is too precious to waste stuffing it full of crap about your life. When you have something really important to say that will mean something significant to me, then you can come tell me. Or call me. Or email me directly. You're not the damn Daily News. You're not so important that you need to broadcast your every thought and action to a legion of followers. You can have direct interactions with me. One on one. And if you can't, then whatever it is probably isn't that important in the first place.I have the decency not to bother with Facebook or Twitter. Why? Well, I am a writer. I'm also a bit of an entrepreneur. I also value other people's time and don't feel that every thought I have or action I take is worth sharing with the world. Inf act, I feel that very few are. And when I do have something of value to share, I'm not going to do it on Facebook or Twitter. I'll do it on a website, like we've done for fifteen years and it'll have more thought given to it than a 140 character spam of my new startup or a \"so drunk lol!\" followed by seventy-eight photos of me getting wasted at a bar, like a rookie." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "If I have any social networking anxiety, it's not about friend count. It's anxiety over wasting my life catering to wannabe web personalities trying to build a following via attention-whoring or wasting precious moments of my life scrolling through every mundane update every idiot on my list posts when their new baby farts (or, worse, the ultra sound images and the nine months of constant uninteresting updates that follow).Am I a snob for not giving a fuck about every single second of your life? Fine. Call me a snob, then. My time is too precious to waste stuffing it full of crap about your life. When you have something really important to say that will mean something significant to me, then you can come tell me. Or call me. Or email me directly. You're not the damn Daily News. You're not so important that you need to broadcast your every thought and action to a legion of followers. You can have direct interactions with me. One on one. And if you can't, then whatever it is probably isn't that important in the first place.I have the decency not to bother with Facebook or Twitter. Why? Well, I am a writer. I'm also a bit of an entrepreneur. I also value other people's time and don't feel that every thought I have or action I take is worth sharing with the world. Inf act, I feel that very few are. And when I do have something of value to share, I'm not going to do it on Facebook or Twitter. I'll do it on a website, like we've done for fifteen years and it'll have more thought given to it than a 140 character spam of my new startup or a \"so drunk lol!\" followed by seventy-eight photos of me getting wasted at a bar, like a rookie." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I have just read the fine blog post, which taught me the term \"need for cognition.\" Having read it, I posted a Facebook link to the blog post visible to my 554 FB friends titled with the question, \"The suggestion of one research finding is that people who like to use social networking sites don't like intellectual challenge. Can you think of any counterexamples?\" I will see what happens over the next several hours.The use case I see most frequently on Facebook among my circle of FB friends is posting links to external publications to elicit discussion--the general use case here at Hacker News. I think people with need for cognition can learn from Hacker News, and if they shape their Facebook friend list intentionally they can learn from Facebook. The second person to Facebook-friend me, connections with whom drew me into the majority of my friend list on Facebook, is a parent I met at conferences on education of gifted children, an occasional participant in email discussions of parenting issues and education reform issues. Over the years I have developed a lot of email relationships (the old-fashioned term would be epistolary friendshipshttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2006....for friendships maintained mostly by writing letters) with parents all over the world who are frustrated by anti-intellectual school systems and who want education for their children that challenges their children intellectually and helps them learn at full speed throughout childhood. In such a friendship environment, I encounter a lot of intellectual challenge. I have to LOOK IT UP if I make a factual assertion that differs from what someone else thinks (much as many people do here on HN). My friends are not screened by occupation, place of birth, country of citizenship, political persuasion, religion, or any other criterion but interest in pursuing learning and improving education for everyone.I think intellectually curious people make use of Facebook as \"free riders\" in much the same way they used to make use of AOL as free riders. (This is not even to mention the number of people who learn from HN without posting much here.) I can well believe that many people waste a lot of time on Facebook, so much so that my slogan in Facebook comments is \"Friends don't let friends play Facebook games,\" but high use of social networking sites (FB or HN) is at most a correlate of lower intellectual engagement at the group level, rather than lower intellectual challenge being an invariant outcome of heavy use of social media. The study design reported in the submitted link is not an adequate study designhttp://norvig.com/experiment-design.htmlto make the claim that all persons who use social media a lot fail to challenge their thinking.P.S. By the time I had finished typing this comment, I had already received a reply to the submitted link on Facebook: \"Well, I don't know people's IQ's, but many of my friends on FB have graduate degrees and almost all of them have bachelor degrees. I think it can provide an extra outlet for those of us who want to have more intellectual discussions and may be limited by our day to day/ face to face interactions.\" The writer of that comment is a very smart woman now living mostly as a stay-at-home mom for her exceptionally gifted young children (one of whom has been a pupil of mine in the mathematics courses run by my nonprofit organization). As I just edit this comment by adding a few more details, I see other replies challenging the assertion that heavy users of social media are in all cases persons who avoid intellectual challenge.P.P.S. after further edit: A recent comment from a FB friend is \"Does the fact that there are multiple Rhodes Scholars on my friend list (and they have regular activity...) count as data?\" Of course, that friend knows that that doesn't exactly count as data, but then another friend commented, \"Perhaps the high-NFC subjects of this particular study just couldn't find other high-NFC friends on FB.\" It surely does matter how intentionally one seeds one's friend list and how one models intellectual behavior on FB." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I have just read the fine blog post, which taught me the term \"need for cognition.\" Having read it, I posted a Facebook link to the blog post visible to my 554 FB friends titled with the question, \"The suggestion of one research finding is that people who like to use social networking sites don't like intellectual challenge. Can you think of any counterexamples?\" I will see what happens over the next several hours.The use case I see most frequently on Facebook among my circle of FB friends is posting links to external publications to elicit discussion--the general use case here at Hacker News. I think people with need for cognition can learn from Hacker News, and if they shape their Facebook friend list intentionally they can learn from Facebook. The second person to Facebook-friend me, connections with whom drew me into the majority of my friend list on Facebook, is a parent I met at conferences on education of gifted children, an occasional participant in email discussions of parenting issues and education reform issues. Over the years I have developed a lot of email relationships (the old-fashioned term would be epistolary friendshipshttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1754-0208.2006....for friendships maintained mostly by writing letters) with parents all over the world who are frustrated by anti-intellectual school systems and who want education for their children that challenges their children intellectually and helps them learn at full speed throughout childhood. In such a friendship environment, I encounter a lot of intellectual challenge. I have to LOOK IT UP if I make a factual assertion that differs from what someone else thinks (much as many people do here on HN). My friends are not screened by occupation, place of birth, country of citizenship, political persuasion, religion, or any other criterion but interest in pursuing learning and improving education for everyone.I think intellectually curious people make use of Facebook as \"free riders\" in much the same way they used to make use of AOL as free riders. (This is not even to mention the number of people who learn from HN without posting much here.) I can well believe that many people waste a lot of time on Facebook, so much so that my slogan in Facebook comments is \"Friends don't let friends play Facebook games,\" but high use of social networking sites (FB or HN) is at most a correlate of lower intellectual engagement at the group level, rather than lower intellectual challenge being an invariant outcome of heavy use of social media. The study design reported in the submitted link is not an adequate study designhttp://norvig.com/experiment-design.htmlto make the claim that all persons who use social media a lot fail to challenge their thinking.P.S. By the time I had finished typing this comment, I had already received a reply to the submitted link on Facebook: \"Well, I don't know people's IQ's, but many of my friends on FB have graduate degrees and almost all of them have bachelor degrees. I think it can provide an extra outlet for those of us who want to have more intellectual discussions and may be limited by our day to day/ face to face interactions.\" The writer of that comment is a very smart woman now living mostly as a stay-at-home mom for her exceptionally gifted young children (one of whom has been a pupil of mine in the mathematics courses run by my nonprofit organization). As I just edit this comment by adding a few more details, I see other replies challenging the assertion that heavy users of social media are in all cases persons who avoid intellectual challenge.P.P.S. after further edit: A recent comment from a FB friend is \"Does the fact that there are multiple Rhodes Scholars on my friend list (and they have regular activity...) count as data?\" Of course, that friend knows that that doesn't exactly count as data, but then another friend commented, \"Perhaps the high-NFC subjects of this particular study just couldn't find other high-NFC friends on FB.\" It surely does matter how intentionally one seeds one's friend list and how one models intellectual behavior on FB." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "\"Are you ashamed that you find Facebook boring?\" Why, yes.\n\n\"Are you angst-ridden by your weak social-networking skills?\" My God man, you are reading my mind\n\n\"Do you look with envy on those whose friend-count dwarfs your own?\" Sorry, no, you don't get 3 yes.\nhttp://changingminds.org/techniques/resisting/yes_yes_no.htmhttp://changingminds.org/disciplines/sales/closing/yes-set_c...When I read the first couple sentences, I felt this guy was trying to sell us something and not necessarily trying to inform us, and what do you know, he is promoting his book at the bottom." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "\"Are you ashamed that you find Facebook boring?\" Why, yes.\n\n\"Are you angst-ridden by your weak social-networking skills?\" My God man, you are reading my mind\n\n\"Do you look with envy on those whose friend-count dwarfs your own?\" Sorry, no, you don't get 3 yes.\nhttp://changingminds.org/techniques/resisting/yes_yes_no.htmhttp://changingminds.org/disciplines/sales/closing/yes-set_c...When I read the first couple sentences, I felt this guy was trying to sell us something and not necessarily trying to inform us, and what do you know, he is promoting his book at the bottom." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Without knowing more about the study, I'm skeptical. Back in 2009, a study claiming that Facebook use was correlated with poor academic performance got a lot of press. Once people looked at the data in more detail, though, a different picture emerged -- http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/05/01/faceboo... has more." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I had this service for about two months and just cancelled it. My reasons were:1. They weren't picking up my mail or delivering my magazines/packages with the consistency that they promised. This gradually eroded my trust the more times I found evidence of it happening.2. I don't want to lose access to all my mail if they go under or get hacked. My only way to access it is via their apps and website, which could go away at any moment. To make matters worse, they shred all the physical copies after 30 days.Those things plus the general lack of trust started making me very, very nervous as time went on.Edit: more details" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "1. Collect mail door-to-door2. Scan each page of mail, including envelopes3. Post scans online4. Return requested physical mail5. Charge $4.99 for this service6. ...7. Profit?Looking at their job postings, they have one person per city managing a team of people working probably close to minimum wage going door-to-door. These people most likely scan mail at their homes using a scanner provided by Outbox.Let's say they pay a City Manager $100,000, or $125,000 after taxes, unemployment insurance, and benefits. An individual can take on 30 customers, is paid above minimum wage (let's say $15 after taxes, etc.), and works 7 hours a day (or 35 hours/week, making them part-time employees). That's roughly $30,000 per worker annually.At $4.99 per month, none of the economics work. At 30 customers per part-time employee, the break even point is $100 per month per customer. At $4.99 per month each PTE needs to handle around 600 customers each to break even. 100 customers per PTE at $30/month also breaks even. But even 100 per PTE seems unrealistic.Unless I'm missing something very basic, it just doesn't scale at $4.99 per month. At all. It's not even close." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "1. Collect mail door-to-door2. Scan each page of mail, including envelopes3. Post scans online4. Return requested physical mail5. Charge $4.99 for this service6. ...7. Profit?Looking at their job postings, they have one person per city managing a team of people working probably close to minimum wage going door-to-door. These people most likely scan mail at their homes using a scanner provided by Outbox.Let's say they pay a City Manager $100,000, or $125,000 after taxes, unemployment insurance, and benefits. An individual can take on 30 customers, is paid above minimum wage (let's say $15 after taxes, etc.), and works 7 hours a day (or 35 hours/week, making them part-time employees). That's roughly $30,000 per worker annually.At $4.99 per month, none of the economics work. At 30 customers per part-time employee, the break even point is $100 per month per customer. At $4.99 per month each PTE needs to handle around 600 customers each to break even. 100 customers per PTE at $30/month also breaks even. But even 100 per PTE seems unrealistic.Unless I'm missing something very basic, it just doesn't scale at $4.99 per month. At all. It's not even close." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is probably one of the sites that you really need to read the terms of service https://www.outboxmail.com/terms to figure out what you are getting yourself into.\"If applicable, and unless you direct Outbox otherwise, Outbox may also, now or in the future, direct the third parties who send you mail and/or bills to send certain items of such mail and/or bills electronically to an email address provided to such third parties by Outbox specifically for that purpose and for that purpose only, in which case you authorize Outbox to do so in its sole discretion for as long as your account for the Service remains open.\"" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This is probably one of the sites that you really need to read the terms of service https://www.outboxmail.com/terms to figure out what you are getting yourself into.\"If applicable, and unless you direct Outbox otherwise, Outbox may also, now or in the future, direct the third parties who send you mail and/or bills to send certain items of such mail and/or bills electronically to an email address provided to such third parties by Outbox specifically for that purpose and for that purpose only, in which case you authorize Outbox to do so in its sole discretion for as long as your account for the Service remains open.\"" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This idea faces two major problems.The first is that the premise is trivial at best and detrimental at worst. Let's evaluate my current mail situation. Considering that I'm a junior in high school, I receive a substantial amount of college-related junk mail (between five and ten pieces per day), in addition to perhaps three other items. I don't understand why it is preferable to sort though my mail digitally. It is already trivial to remove my mail, quickly glance through it, and toss the junk mail into the recycling bin in my foyer. Being able to do this via a web interface means nothing to me, and certainly isn't worth my money. In fact, I would argue that this worsens my mail-reading experience inasmuch as it creates a level of abstraction that increases the time necessary to deliver the mail I do care about, like The New Yorker. Our mail system is already a travesty. I'm certainly not going to do anything to make it even slower.The second issue, as mentioned before, is trust. I simply don't trust a startup to open my mail." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "This idea faces two major problems.The first is that the premise is trivial at best and detrimental at worst. Let's evaluate my current mail situation. Considering that I'm a junior in high school, I receive a substantial amount of college-related junk mail (between five and ten pieces per day), in addition to perhaps three other items. I don't understand why it is preferable to sort though my mail digitally. It is already trivial to remove my mail, quickly glance through it, and toss the junk mail into the recycling bin in my foyer. Being able to do this via a web interface means nothing to me, and certainly isn't worth my money. In fact, I would argue that this worsens my mail-reading experience inasmuch as it creates a level of abstraction that increases the time necessary to deliver the mail I do care about, like The New Yorker. Our mail system is already a travesty. I'm certainly not going to do anything to make it even slower.The second issue, as mentioned before, is trust. I simply don't trust a startup to open my mail." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "With this and the send snail mail through the web thing from earlier, you could mail yourself a letter without leaving the house. Internet complete." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The US actually has a lot of rare earth minerals, however, mining halted in around 2002 because of environmental concerns and cheaper prices from China. Domestic mining will probably pick up again.http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/09/chinese-th...http://www.molycorp.com/Also:Throughout the halt on exports of rare earth minerals, China has allowed exports of manufactured products that use them, like powerful magnets, and highly purified rare earth metals.Note that they allow the sale of purified rare earth metals; just not the raw minerals. Also, since a lot of parts and sub-assemblies are made in China, this will probably lessen the impact." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Wait, so the US stopped mining rare earth material for environmental concerns, but wants China to mine more of them and export the material to the US - what about the environment in China?\nAnd remember when \"an incovinient truth\" was at its height US officials blamed China for causing so much environmental issues - c'mon, what do you really want them to do?A link in the above article points to another article where there's a similar scenario of trade vs clean energy - isn't government subsidy of clean tech an universally good action for our environment? - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/global/18trade.ht..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Wait, so the US stopped mining rare earth material for environmental concerns, but wants China to mine more of them and export the material to the US - what about the environment in China?\nAnd remember when \"an incovinient truth\" was at its height US officials blamed China for causing so much environmental issues - c'mon, what do you really want them to do?A link in the above article points to another article where there's a similar scenario of trade vs clean energy - isn't government subsidy of clean tech an universally good action for our environment? - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/business/global/18trade.ht..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "An embargo like this was inevitable. I'm sure it will not be the last time they reserve a resource for Chinese businesses. Commentators in the west sometimes forget that China is not like western countries; its political elite do not buy into neoliberal ideas and are not easily corrupted to promote American business interests, like in so many of America's trading partners.Simply put, it makes no sense for Chinese representatives to scour the globe snapping up resources if they don't intend to reserve them for Chinese use at below-market rates." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "An embargo like this was inevitable. I'm sure it will not be the last time they reserve a resource for Chinese businesses. Commentators in the west sometimes forget that China is not like western countries; its political elite do not buy into neoliberal ideas and are not easily corrupted to promote American business interests, like in so many of America's trading partners.Simply put, it makes no sense for Chinese representatives to scour the globe snapping up resources if they don't intend to reserve them for Chinese use at below-market rates." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "China has been stockpiling the rare elements for some time now. They're necessary for a lot of high-tech goods, and would be very useful as a trade lever.Regarding the embargo on Japan, it was seen as a response to the recent territorial disputes over the Senkaku isles. China later stated that they weren't embargoing nuthin', but importers here in Japan were having a lot of problems getting shipments in due to much more strenuous customs inspections, etc.The Japanese response has been to open dialogue with Mongolia about starting mines for rare earth minerals there, as Mongolia are supposed to have a great deal of reserves." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "China has been stockpiling the rare elements for some time now. They're necessary for a lot of high-tech goods, and would be very useful as a trade lever.Regarding the embargo on Japan, it was seen as a response to the recent territorial disputes over the Senkaku isles. China later stated that they weren't embargoing nuthin', but importers here in Japan were having a lot of problems getting shipments in due to much more strenuous customs inspections, etc.The Japanese response has been to open dialogue with Mongolia about starting mines for rare earth minerals there, as Mongolia are supposed to have a great deal of reserves." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "International tensions are rapidly increasing. With currency wars, trade wars, etc, it is going to be very interesting to see how the next few years play out." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The title is very wrong and the HN comments so far miss the point that windows is a tiny portion of that deal. I don't know the details, but judging by the products involved, I would say no more than 5-10%. Exchange, Sharepoint, all of Office client and server suites, SQL maybe some private cloud, virtualization, monitoring software, dedicated support, maybe some custom DoD regulatory stuff for records management and whatnot, that's what they're paying for.I do know that the Army was making extensive use of Sharepoint on the fields in Irak for example." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "In reality this isn't that much money. When you consider that the entirity of the DoD runs on Exchange. They are heavy users of sharepoint and in addition to all the Desktops the DoD uses Windows on most of their deployed systems you quickly get to a staggering number of desktops and systems. Then we can start on office by then your at maybe half the actual cost. If you look this was sold to a reseller and I would venture a guess that a good chunk is for actual deployments integrating CaC cards and working with Network operators.While I would fully support the DoD taking the plung and switching over to Linux for desktops the truth is I don't think there is a Linux vendor out there (Including Red Hat and Oracle ) that has the support infrastructure to deal with the amount of support the DoD will require. It would make more sense to get the DoD migrated to a standards based deployment that was inter-operable between divisions and vendors. Then you would see Linux support shops start to take away friendly divisions and slowly get market share. Without that your never going to see anything but a Microsoft monopoly." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "In reality this isn't that much money. When you consider that the entirity of the DoD runs on Exchange. They are heavy users of sharepoint and in addition to all the Desktops the DoD uses Windows on most of their deployed systems you quickly get to a staggering number of desktops and systems. Then we can start on office by then your at maybe half the actual cost. If you look this was sold to a reseller and I would venture a guess that a good chunk is for actual deployments integrating CaC cards and working with Network operators.While I would fully support the DoD taking the plung and switching over to Linux for desktops the truth is I don't think there is a Linux vendor out there (Including Red Hat and Oracle ) that has the support infrastructure to deal with the amount of support the DoD will require. It would make more sense to get the DoD migrated to a standards based deployment that was inter-operable between divisions and vendors. Then you would see Linux support shops start to take away friendly divisions and slowly get market share. Without that your never going to see anything but a Microsoft monopoly." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "My understanding of Windows (which I admittedly have not used day-to-day for the past two years) is that most businesses have typically upgraded on \"off-years\" (or to make an analogy to Intel's tick-tock yearly release schedule, let's call them \"tock\" years)If I understand correctly, the upgrade path looks something like NT4 => XP => Windows 7, skipping Windows 2000 and Windows Vista.I've not heard of a large customer like this adopting such an experimental release. It certainly seems strange to me, especially considering Windows 8's tepid reception in the marketplace.Anyone understand the reasoning for adopting this release instead of holding out for the next one, where (hopefully) all the egregious mistakes they've made redesigning the UI will have some sort of acceptable resolution?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "My understanding of Windows (which I admittedly have not used day-to-day for the past two years) is that most businesses have typically upgraded on \"off-years\" (or to make an analogy to Intel's tick-tock yearly release schedule, let's call them \"tock\" years)If I understand correctly, the upgrade path looks something like NT4 => XP => Windows 7, skipping Windows 2000 and Windows Vista.I've not heard of a large customer like this adopting such an experimental release. It certainly seems strange to me, especially considering Windows 8's tepid reception in the marketplace.Anyone understand the reasoning for adopting this release instead of holding out for the next one, where (hopefully) all the egregious mistakes they've made redesigning the UI will have some sort of acceptable resolution?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Interesting, Ubuntu could help if they wanted to save money, but unfortunately Ubuntu has not gone through the hoops of getting official rubber stamp certifications that say Redhat's RHEL has http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industry/government/certific...There a good amount of money to be made selling software to the government. They are easily deceived and manipulated to over pay for support as well.You just have to have someone full time who is trained in navigating the red tape and the network of connections." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Interesting, Ubuntu could help if they wanted to save money, but unfortunately Ubuntu has not gone through the hoops of getting official rubber stamp certifications that say Redhat's RHEL has http://www.redhat.com/solutions/industry/government/certific...There a good amount of money to be made selling software to the government. They are easily deceived and manipulated to over pay for support as well.You just have to have someone full time who is trained in navigating the red tape and the network of connections." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "And this, after Biden said that he wants to cut $20B from the DoD spending... Really wouldn't be cheaper with something else? Maybe I'm missing something, but a Windows OS by itself takes probably couple to dozen GB, and if this is installed on a tablet device, or even on SSD laptop - this takes significant amount of space (probably to solve SxS issues (dll side-by side versions) which also grows quite big with newer updates).And then you would have to instruct your personnel to learn two interfaces - Metro, or who knows how it's called, and the old one.And for that all monitors better be touch-capable, otherwise - what's the point of Windows 8?I simply don't get it... Me & My wife are both using OSX, and we are happy, and while I understand that this is probably more expensive (or maybe... not) - there is completely free OS alternatives - not one, but at least couple decent.If a big portion of the internet is built behind free OS, I don't see why DoD can't go with that option too." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "It’s almost as if Apple were in a different business than Dell (DELL), HP (HPQ), Acer and Toshiba.Helloooooo! DELL, HP, Acer and Toshiba are in the ruthless business of trying to cut their margins thinner and thinner with fewer and fewer opportunities to differentiate their products while they acts as collectors for the Windows Tax.Apple is indeed in a different business, a business based on differentiation and branding." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I wonder how high this could go? I think Microsoft are vulnerable here, since they are widely disliked, even hated.Apple's market share in the US is higher than in the rest of the world, because the US market is less price sensitive. But what if Apple brought out a cheap version of the Mac Mini, to capture that sector of the market? It ought to cost no more than $200 and like the existing Mac Mini it would have BYODKM (\"Bring your own Display Keyboard and Mouse\") -- but it would also be able to use the old PS/2 keyboards and mice, which many people have in their attics or on an old PC. This would make it a very attractive low cost option.Apple could have as an option on all their computers dual-boot with Linux (maybe using a customised Ubuntu distro), and allow people to run Linux programs in a virtual machine under Mac OS. The number of extra customers this would bring directly is not large, maybe 1% of the total market for new PCs; however it's an influential market sector because most Linux users have less-technical friends who rely on them for advice.One of the drawbacks of running Linux is that it's less likely to be compatible with new hardware than a more mainstream OS. However if the Apple distro and campatibility layer was well-written it would allow and hardware that works with Mac OS to work with Apple's Linux. So many Linux users might go for this option.If Apple did this, I think they could get 20%+ market share in the US by 2009Q4. How could Microsoft respond? Reducing prices probably wouldn't help them much, and Microsoft are too bloated and slow moving to actually produce a good operating system." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I wonder how high this could go? I think Microsoft are vulnerable here, since they are widely disliked, even hated.Apple's market share in the US is higher than in the rest of the world, because the US market is less price sensitive. But what if Apple brought out a cheap version of the Mac Mini, to capture that sector of the market? It ought to cost no more than $200 and like the existing Mac Mini it would have BYODKM (\"Bring your own Display Keyboard and Mouse\") -- but it would also be able to use the old PS/2 keyboards and mice, which many people have in their attics or on an old PC. This would make it a very attractive low cost option.Apple could have as an option on all their computers dual-boot with Linux (maybe using a customised Ubuntu distro), and allow people to run Linux programs in a virtual machine under Mac OS. The number of extra customers this would bring directly is not large, maybe 1% of the total market for new PCs; however it's an influential market sector because most Linux users have less-technical friends who rely on them for advice.One of the drawbacks of running Linux is that it's less likely to be compatible with new hardware than a more mainstream OS. However if the Apple distro and campatibility layer was well-written it would allow and hardware that works with Mac OS to work with Apple's Linux. So many Linux users might go for this option.If Apple did this, I think they could get 20%+ market share in the US by 2009Q4. How could Microsoft respond? Reducing prices probably wouldn't help them much, and Microsoft are too bloated and slow moving to actually produce a good operating system." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "9% market share in US only. The edited title here in HN can be misleading." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "9% market share in US only. The edited title here in HN can be misleading." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "What may get lost is that Apple sold 33% the number of computers that Dell did in the same time frame. As Dell is a big corporate supplier, it is possible that Apple sold as many (or almost as many) personal machines as Dell, and more than any other manufacturer. Another interesting insight is that corporations install the same software they've already purchased and will continue to do so during a recession, while personal users are able to buy and install software as they see fit--especially those first-time users who are trying to find replacements for their favorite windows software. So, buyers choose Macs when they have a choice, but choose Dell and HP machines for their companies to run all of their existing software." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "What may get lost is that Apple sold 33% the number of computers that Dell did in the same time frame. As Dell is a big corporate supplier, it is possible that Apple sold as many (or almost as many) personal machines as Dell, and more than any other manufacturer. Another interesting insight is that corporations install the same software they've already purchased and will continue to do so during a recession, while personal users are able to buy and install software as they see fit--especially those first-time users who are trying to find replacements for their favorite windows software. So, buyers choose Macs when they have a choice, but choose Dell and HP machines for their companies to run all of their existing software." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "And their stock is close to their 52 week low with a P/E under 20. Interesting." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I have two go-to solutions for malloc. In order of preference:I use arena allocators when I can get away with it. Arenas are absolutely trivial to code; there's no per-object \"free\", so allocation is just a pointer bump. You will be surprised at how often you can get away with this; lots of allocation-heavy code paths map to a single operation, transaction, request, file, or what-have-you, and all you're doing is deferring free to the end of it. Using arenas in this scenario basically erases the cost of allocation from your program. It's also dramatically harder to fuck up.For anything else, when malloc hits the top of my profile, I have a simple freelist library for pools of homogenous allocations, with an embedded linked list of free items.You could get smarter than an arena, a generic freelist, and malloc, but why?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "At various times I've profiled some CPU bound code and thought malloc is taking too much time. This has led me to read up on, and try and develop various usage-optimised allocators. The one lesson I've learnt is that in most cases the standard libc allocator is actually extremely good.Where I have had big advantages over libc malloc is where the memory allocations have been specific to a thread context. For example, consider a multi-threaded server, where by you could guarantee that only one thread was active in a connection at anyone time. It's quite easy for a single connection to spend 5-10% of it's time in malloc and there are often big globalish locks around general purpose allocators, so it's easy to get get mutex contention which is far worse than the overhead of a sub-efficient allocator.In such cases you often need to have small bits of memory within the context of a connection. Here I found big benefits my mallocing memory in bug chunks and then simply splitting that up into small sections within a connection specific allocator to avoid any malloc mutex locking.What I've found is that in order to beat normal malloc, I think you really have to have a specific usage case that restricts something to do better." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "At various times I've profiled some CPU bound code and thought malloc is taking too much time. This has led me to read up on, and try and develop various usage-optimised allocators. The one lesson I've learnt is that in most cases the standard libc allocator is actually extremely good.Where I have had big advantages over libc malloc is where the memory allocations have been specific to a thread context. For example, consider a multi-threaded server, where by you could guarantee that only one thread was active in a connection at anyone time. It's quite easy for a single connection to spend 5-10% of it's time in malloc and there are often big globalish locks around general purpose allocators, so it's easy to get get mutex contention which is far worse than the overhead of a sub-efficient allocator.In such cases you often need to have small bits of memory within the context of a connection. Here I found big benefits my mallocing memory in bug chunks and then simply splitting that up into small sections within a connection specific allocator to avoid any malloc mutex locking.What I've found is that in order to beat normal malloc, I think you really have to have a specific usage case that restricts something to do better." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Slab Allocators, as described by Bonwick (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.4...) if I'm allocating lots of same-size objects. Other than that, I mainly stick to the system malloc(), or something specifically optimized for the task at hand." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Slab Allocators, as described by Bonwick (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.4...) if I'm allocating lots of same-size objects. Other than that, I mainly stick to the system malloc(), or something specifically optimized for the task at hand." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "At Google we use tcmalloc which is now open sourced.A paper about it:http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.htmlThe code:http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "At Google we use tcmalloc which is now open sourced.A paper about it:http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/tcmalloc.htmlThe code:http://code.google.com/p/google-perftools/" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "It really depends on the application. I just use the default system allocator until it's inadequate for some task, and then I switch to an allocation scheme or heap allocator that's well-suited for that problem.Can you tell us more about your specific problem? Then we'd be able to give suggestions and help evaluate the options." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "IPython notebook is actually one of the most interesting developments not just in the python world, but in computing generally. It's the first step towards the fully graphical shell on the internet that many of us have been looking for, whether or not we realize it.Being able to weave together text|markdown, tabular data (in almost any format you want) and images ( whether from matplotlib, raw captures, or synthetic assemblies ) in one environment is very powerful.I suspect that with some additional tools IPython notebook will become the integrators workbench par excellence, useful in many contexts." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I was lucky enough to find IPython early on when I started with Python. I'm constantly amazed with its feature set. Some cool things I found useful:The \"run\" command for running python scripts:* -t to print timing information* -p to print profiling info from profiler module* -d run the script under pdb interactively (with -b to set line breakpoints)* -n to set __name__All of these things can be done fairly easily on their own, but doing it through IPython makes the output so much easier to read and work with.Whenever I'm working with data I need to visualize, I like to use: ipython qtconsole --pylab=inline\n\nto get a terminal-like window that has inline graphs from matplotlib functions." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I was lucky enough to find IPython early on when I started with Python. I'm constantly amazed with its feature set. Some cool things I found useful:The \"run\" command for running python scripts:* -t to print timing information* -p to print profiling info from profiler module* -d run the script under pdb interactively (with -b to set line breakpoints)* -n to set __name__All of these things can be done fairly easily on their own, but doing it through IPython makes the output so much easier to read and work with.Whenever I'm working with data I need to visualize, I like to use: ipython qtconsole --pylab=inline\n\nto get a terminal-like window that has inline graphs from matplotlib functions." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "IPython is extremely useful.I like the qtconsole feature but i find it less than perfect to install:1. pip install ipython\n2. <system package manager> install qt4\n3. pip install pyside / qt4 bindingsThe better feature, for me anyway, is the notebook interface (it starts a local web server and gives you a rich web guy, somewhat like a Mathematica idea of interactive notebook editing with inline charting etc.)But, that's a whole other bunch of dependencies that aren't in scope when installing ipython.Not sure of the best fix, offer ipython and ipython-full-stack on PyPI?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "IPython is extremely useful.I like the qtconsole feature but i find it less than perfect to install:1. pip install ipython\n2. <system package manager> install qt4\n3. pip install pyside / qt4 bindingsThe better feature, for me anyway, is the notebook interface (it starts a local web server and gives you a rich web guy, somewhat like a Mathematica idea of interactive notebook editing with inline charting etc.)But, that's a whole other bunch of dependencies that aren't in scope when installing ipython.Not sure of the best fix, offer ipython and ipython-full-stack on PyPI?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "That grant is well deserved. IPython is easily the most useful Python tool I have ever used." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "That grant is well deserved. IPython is easily the most useful Python tool I have ever used." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "The notebook interface is the natural generalisation of the REPL, and has the potential of being reused and copied by other languages (clojure, JavaScript) just as, in offline form, it has been used in Mathematica and Racket for years." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The reason this happens is that the link is actually a reference to a live closure[1] held in memory on the server. Notice how the URL has `fnid=...`? Well fnid is short for function ID.There isn't an obvious way to fix this without dramatically changing the way pages are rendered. The reason the link expires is probably that the garbage collector picks them up after a timeout interval. I remember this was something on the order of 10-30 min.Honestly though, HN is a free service built with an experimental programming language buy a guy who worked full-time as a seed-stage investor. That's a miracle in itself. You're not going to "shame" anyone into fixing it.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_(computer_programming)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Actually I've gotten to find it a nice tick of the site. Meh so you have to refresh and try again. It's kinda telling you you've spent to much time here and to move along." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Actually I've gotten to find it a nice tick of the site. Meh so you have to refresh and try again. It's kinda telling you you've spent to much time here and to move along." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I use hckrnews.com and this doesn't happens so much--still does on comments pages cause that's still on ycombinator." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I use hckrnews.com and this doesn't happens so much--still does on comments pages cause that's still on ycombinator." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It's not driving me crazy because I'm using AutoPager to load the continuation pages before they expire." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It's not driving me crazy because I'm using AutoPager to load the continuation pages before they expire." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Here is dang's official response on the matter from 10 days ago:[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7651770" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "So true that you can't explain to people. You can try, but they will either get the horror, or the bliss, but they'll never understand the strange and gut-bustingly hard mix of the two, and how quickly it swings from one to the other.When they are defying you and just threw food over the kitchen, you'll get grey hairs trying to fight the urge to blow your top. You'll say things you promised yourself you would never say, because you're all out of ideas how to handle a tiny creature who is intent on riling you, just to see what it's like.Then they'll get sick and you'll need to carry them to a doctor and entrust them to medical staff you've never met, and you'll be so anxious you won't eat or sleep.Then the next day you'll have the most wonderful conversation where your little charge asks you about the universe and you try and explain it to them, not knowing where to start or how much understanding they really have.One thing though, you'll learn compassion, forgiveness and patience like you never thought possible." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As a childfree individual, I'm amused by the euphoric claims of parents regarding the improved quality of their lives after having children. All the science seems to point in the opposite direction:http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/why-does-anyon...I have to confess: from the outside looking in, parents resemble nothing so much as cult victims gushing with conversion stories, complete with the requisite, \"It'll be so much better once you join!\" It's even creepier than that, though: cults may have leaders, but parents merely have genes flipping switches. It's like we all have a brainwashing trigger implanted at birth, waiting for the right circumstance to arise. This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, though: if raising kids is extremely hard, something would have to get tweaked in the parents' minds to convince them to stick around.(Sometimes I wonder if some aspects of my genetic \"kid trigger\" were co-opted by my cat. She reduces me to a babbling puddle of mush, and I'm enormously protective of her. When she nearly died, I was reduced to tears, and I made large sacrifices in time and money to save her life — and I'd cheerfully sell a kidney if that's what it took to do so again. I plan on having her cryogenically preserved if the worst happens someday. But throw myself under a bus? No — although I'd throw someone else under a bus for her.)The hardest part of being childfree, I've found, is the realization that I don't even live on the same planet as people who are, or will be, parents. Each side looks crazy from the other. I've found it impossible to maintain a close friendship with someone once they've had kids; schedules and priorities diverge, and you become increasingly convinced that it's best to \"stick to your own kind\" in the first place." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "As a childfree individual, I'm amused by the euphoric claims of parents regarding the improved quality of their lives after having children. All the science seems to point in the opposite direction:http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/why-does-anyon...I have to confess: from the outside looking in, parents resemble nothing so much as cult victims gushing with conversion stories, complete with the requisite, \"It'll be so much better once you join!\" It's even creepier than that, though: cults may have leaders, but parents merely have genes flipping switches. It's like we all have a brainwashing trigger implanted at birth, waiting for the right circumstance to arise. This makes sense from an evolutionary standpoint, though: if raising kids is extremely hard, something would have to get tweaked in the parents' minds to convince them to stick around.(Sometimes I wonder if some aspects of my genetic \"kid trigger\" were co-opted by my cat. She reduces me to a babbling puddle of mush, and I'm enormously protective of her. When she nearly died, I was reduced to tears, and I made large sacrifices in time and money to save her life — and I'd cheerfully sell a kidney if that's what it took to do so again. I plan on having her cryogenically preserved if the worst happens someday. But throw myself under a bus? No — although I'd throw someone else under a bus for her.)The hardest part of being childfree, I've found, is the realization that I don't even live on the same planet as people who are, or will be, parents. Each side looks crazy from the other. I've found it impossible to maintain a close friendship with someone once they've had kids; schedules and priorities diverge, and you become increasingly convinced that it's best to \"stick to your own kind\" in the first place." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'm not a parent and don't ever plan to be (not all plans go that way, so my feelings might change on the matter) but I dont really get the whole parenting/having kids thing. I really have no affection for children at all, I dont find babies cute, i dont think kids are darling and i honestly think i'd make an absolutely terrible father because i just dont think im wired that way.When Jeff talks about the 51% to the 49%, my personal opinion is why even bother devoting 18+ years of effort for a measly 2% payoff? Because, if it WAS worth it, wouldnt it be more than 2%?I know this is perhaps a controversial opinion but please keep in mind I dont advocate my own views for anyone else. I have friends who i wholeheartedly believe weren't complete until they had kids, they're great parents and its what makes them whole and i think thats brilliant. But kids are like bungee jumping or religion, great for other people, but certainly not for me." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I'm not a parent and don't ever plan to be (not all plans go that way, so my feelings might change on the matter) but I dont really get the whole parenting/having kids thing. I really have no affection for children at all, I dont find babies cute, i dont think kids are darling and i honestly think i'd make an absolutely terrible father because i just dont think im wired that way.When Jeff talks about the 51% to the 49%, my personal opinion is why even bother devoting 18+ years of effort for a measly 2% payoff? Because, if it WAS worth it, wouldnt it be more than 2%?I know this is perhaps a controversial opinion but please keep in mind I dont advocate my own views for anyone else. I have friends who i wholeheartedly believe weren't complete until they had kids, they're great parents and its what makes them whole and i think thats brilliant. But kids are like bungee jumping or religion, great for other people, but certainly not for me." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "> 49% incredible pain in the ass, 51% most sublime joy you've ever felt; that one percent makes all the difference.Between 49 and 51 I count a difference of two percents?> Turns out, we're having two babies, due in mid-February 2012.Aha. Let's talk again in a year or two, see who you'd throw under a bus.I have three of those myself. I don't really subscribe to this whole \"kids are wonderful\" cliché.The first kid, it's wonderful, yes (but this has been said before, no?) The other kids? Let's say I would agree more with Louis CK:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcnXpOygKGIEdit: downvoters should try to take care of my kids for a few days ;-)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "> 49% incredible pain in the ass, 51% most sublime joy you've ever felt; that one percent makes all the difference.Between 49 and 51 I count a difference of two percents?> Turns out, we're having two babies, due in mid-February 2012.Aha. Let's talk again in a year or two, see who you'd throw under a bus.I have three of those myself. I don't really subscribe to this whole \"kids are wonderful\" cliché.The first kid, it's wonderful, yes (but this has been said before, no?) The other kids? Let's say I would agree more with Louis CK:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcnXpOygKGIEdit: downvoters should try to take care of my kids for a few days ;-)" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Nicely written, although I have to say I don't find having a baby quite as horrible as most other parents seem to find it. Exhausting at times, yes, but nothing that gets me angry. As for my old life - maybe I wasn't partying hard enough, because I don't really miss it that much.OK, it is terrifying, but not because the kid is a terrorist. It is terrifying because life suddenly has you by the guts. I guess I cared a little about my own survival before, but now I really want to survive to be able to be there for my kid, and I definitely want my kid to survive. Suddenly life has gained a whole new dimension." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The default partitioning of CAM space on Cisco gear is the obvious issue, but the root cause is the massive deaggregation of announced IPv4 routes on the Internet. You can see various statistics about this problem at http://www.cidr-report.org/, but the short of it is that if the top 30 networks (based on announced route savings) completely aggregated their announcements as much as possible, ~41,000 routes (~8% of the routing table) would be eliminated.And that's just the top 30 networks — if every network cleaned up their announcements, it would eliminate ~232,000 routes (~45% of the table).Adding to the deaggregation problem is the inability to easily filter out route announcements based on RIR minimum allocations without having to add tons of exceptions for CDNs that operate as islands of connectivity and carve out IP space for each island from a single address space allocation. (There's no covering route for the islands of connectivity since these CDNs have no "backbone" connecting the islands, so if you filter out those smaller announcements, you lose connectivity to those islands.)There are many people who think this problem will just magically go away as IPv6 adoption increases, but all increased IPv6 adoption will do is make limited CAM space even more limited as network engineers have to balance dividing precious CAM space between a ballooning-quickly IPv4 route table and a ballooning-slightly-less-quickly IPv6 route table.(To be clear: I think ubiquitous, functioning, end-to-end native IPv6 connectivity needs to happen sooner than later, but it's not a magic bullet for the Internet's technical problems.)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I dropped this into another HN thread, so I'll just put it here:http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-...Takeaways: a) 512K routes isn't necessarily a hardware limitation, it's the default TCAM allocation for IPv4 and B) most people most of the time don't need their routers to take a full BGP feeds worth of routes - and I hope those that do aren't running 6500's in Q3 2014 ;)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I dropped this into another HN thread, so I'll just put it here:http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/switches/catalyst-...Takeaways: a) 512K routes isn't necessarily a hardware limitation, it's the default TCAM allocation for IPv4 and B) most people most of the time don't need their routers to take a full BGP feeds worth of routes - and I hope those that do aren't running 6500's in Q3 2014 ;)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "As discussed on NANOG from a few months ago:http://markmail.org/message/n32fmeb2dmtnbsffI find the economics of the routing table to be fascinating. When someone announces a route, it makes use of a constrained (and often expensive, TCAM-based) resource on routers all over the world. More discussion:http://markmail.org/message/6sunzqtffav5jmfb" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "As discussed on NANOG from a few months ago:http://markmail.org/message/n32fmeb2dmtnbsffI find the economics of the routing table to be fascinating. When someone announces a route, it makes use of a constrained (and often expensive, TCAM-based) resource on routers all over the world. More discussion:http://markmail.org/message/6sunzqtffav5jmfb" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "512k is surely enough... http://www.nux.ro/archive/2014/08/512k_routes_ought_to_be_en..." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "512k is surely enough... http://www.nux.ro/archive/2014/08/512k_routes_ought_to_be_en..." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Slate article on using BGP hijacking to redirect mined bitcoins from an hour ago. Relevant? http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/0...edit: I'll take it by the downvotes without responses that's a "no"?" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I hope Microsoft decides to target Google Now instead of Siri. Google Now provides so much more depth than a voice interface; Siri offers so little in comparison. Siri works well as a voice activated personal assistant (that I rarely see people use).Based on search history, emails, and location Google Now provides information before you need to search for it. It happens to have a voice activated interface available. I'd really like to see Microsoft do more than creating a voice activated app for setting alarms and searching yelp with Cortana. The screenshot looks promising and the author probably made the Siri connection himself so I feel hopeful." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "What's next, GLaDOS on our Steamboxes?"GLaDOS?""I hate you.""Bring up Team Fortress 2""Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess? Or how about 'Pass the Hot Deadly Neurotoxin'?"" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "What's next, GLaDOS on our Steamboxes?"GLaDOS?""I hate you.""Bring up Team Fortress 2""Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess? Or how about 'Pass the Hot Deadly Neurotoxin'?"" }

{ "score": 2, "text": ">The Verge reports that So, The Verge's article was submitted to HN too and got 4 points:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335717" }

{ "score": 2, "text": ">The Verge reports that So, The Verge's article was submitted to HN too and got 4 points:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335717" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Possible branding problem: Cortana the Halo character goes insane after seven years." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Possible branding problem: Cortana the Halo character goes insane after seven years." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I can see it now."OK, Cortana, show me how to get to Mars."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCCk1atehQc" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "People part with their money when you add significant value (solve a tough problem or create lots of delight). The value of Learnivore is that it collects programming screencasts into one place, which is valuable but not that valuable. It's not creating enough value that you could charge directly for it.In order to make good money, you'd have to view the screencast aggregation as your marketing, not your product. You'd have to invent another product to go along with this.Ads are a weak example of this. Ads would be about connecting programmers with businesses serving programmers, which you can see is a different product than screencasts.Another product could be consulting. This site could generate leads for consulting gigs, which would give you more money in one hour than you can probably make in a month with ads." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "(With the IP owners permission...)Convert the screencasts into a standard format via Hey!Watch or Encoding.com, make them available for offline content on mobile devices. Charge for that, give a kickback to the IP owner." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "(With the IP owners permission...)Convert the screencasts into a standard format via Hey!Watch or Encoding.com, make them available for offline content on mobile devices. Charge for that, give a kickback to the IP owner." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I know I would pay to have some of our screencasts from TekPub.com show up on the site in some sort of featured section (ideally inline with the rest of the content but clearly marked as sponsored). Drop me a line and we can work something out. (email is in profile)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I know I would pay to have some of our screencasts from TekPub.com show up on the site in some sort of featured section (ideally inline with the rest of the content but clearly marked as sponsored). Drop me a line and we can work something out. (email is in profile)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "You attract rails programmers? The obvious monetization strategy there is a jobs site. Either start one (specific for rails), or link to one that pays referral fees.Most likely though, you should probably consider this a labor of love." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "You attract rails programmers? The obvious monetization strategy there is a jobs site. Either start one (specific for rails), or link to one that pays referral fees.Most likely though, you should probably consider this a labor of love." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Approach the screencast owners about setting up affiliate programs. Since they have 96% margins or so, it really makes sense for them to pay 20% of the purchase price to you if you can demonstrably drive converting traffic." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I find it a little disturbing how many people are commenting saying that Notch shouldn't be wasting his time on such pursuits or that he should really be focusing on something new and big.You don't become great by doing big things, you become great by doing little things and fooling around and starting projects and then abandoning them when you've gotten everything out of them you want to get. Then, when the big things find you, you will be ready.I would expect a site called Hacker News to understand this. That most of those comments are at the bottom of the page indicates that many do." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is why most of us need significant recurring revenue - to have a time to work on things like this :)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is why most of us need significant recurring revenue - to have a time to work on things like this :)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "God I miss Doom. To me, the pinnacle of FPS games.Pick an episode, pick a difficulty, and literally 3 seconds later you've blasted somebody in the face. And the music. Phenomenal. Why is everything orchestral now?It was a game. Not a semi-interactive movie. You could play it for 30 minutes or 3 hours, didn't matter. Dozens of enemies on screen, shooting you, insane fun.What did we arrive at? Overly-dramatic, Michael-Bay-inspired "Saving private Ryan"-wannabe's with "realism" and "grit" and a 50 minute intro, with 5-minute levels, separated by 5-minute cut-scenes....ugh.I would, immediately, pay $60 for a game like Doom, with retouched graphics, Fast-paced, fast-moving, maze-like levels you have to actually explore, with secrets (yes, I know it's not realistic) and just dozens of baddies you can blast to smithereens. And when you die, get this - you respawn in 3 seconds or less. No dying animation, no "Loading..." screen.$60, right now." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "God I miss Doom. To me, the pinnacle of FPS games.Pick an episode, pick a difficulty, and literally 3 seconds later you've blasted somebody in the face. And the music. Phenomenal. Why is everything orchestral now?It was a game. Not a semi-interactive movie. You could play it for 30 minutes or 3 hours, didn't matter. Dozens of enemies on screen, shooting you, insane fun.What did we arrive at? Overly-dramatic, Michael-Bay-inspired "Saving private Ryan"-wannabe's with "realism" and "grit" and a 50 minute intro, with 5-minute levels, separated by 5-minute cut-scenes....ugh.I would, immediately, pay $60 for a game like Doom, with retouched graphics, Fast-paced, fast-moving, maze-like levels you have to actually explore, with secrets (yes, I know it's not realistic) and just dozens of baddies you can blast to smithereens. And when you die, get this - you respawn in 3 seconds or less. No dying animation, no "Loading..." screen.$60, right now." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It would be cool if more hobbyist game developers started making retro FPS games in the style of Doom or Wolfenstein. It's only marginally more effort than making pixel art platformers, which is a wildly popular aesthetic these days, and I feel that the retro 3D aesthetic has a lot of untapped potential. The Vlambeer game Gun Godz is a good recent example, it's pretty much Wolf3D with a nice art style.Also, these kind of games make it feasible to write a random level generator that actually makes okay levels (there are such generators for Doom), and allow users to create their own levels with custom art styles in a day or so." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "It would be cool if more hobbyist game developers started making retro FPS games in the style of Doom or Wolfenstein. It's only marginally more effort than making pixel art platformers, which is a wildly popular aesthetic these days, and I feel that the retro 3D aesthetic has a lot of untapped potential. The Vlambeer game Gun Godz is a good recent example, it's pretty much Wolf3D with a nice art style.Also, these kind of games make it feasible to write a random level generator that actually makes okay levels (there are such generators for Doom), and allow users to create their own levels with custom art styles in a day or so." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I definitely thought this post would be about the Microsoft deal..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "People need to accept that not every form of entertainment is intended for them. Adopting, for the moment, Brave New World-type classification, some forms of entertainment are aimed at alphas and betas, while others are aimed more at deltas and epsilons. For an alpha to complain about the stupidity of the entertainment aimed at epsilons, or an epsilon to complain about the incomprehensibility of the entertainment aimed at alphas, is unseemly; he should instead be glad that people are producing entertainment which he does enjoy.If you're out there complaining about team sports, or American Idol, or Tyler Perry movies, or Justin Bieber (whoever he is) then you're either (a) missing the point, or (b) trying to engage in status signalling that you're not the intellectual demographic at which these things are aimed. However, by making such a signal you imply that you're worried about being confused with such people, which is in itself a negative status signal.So in conclusion, complaining about forms of entertainment that you don't enjoy is an enormous waste of time and makes you look bad." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Honestly - the whole \"sports fans are dumb\" stereotype belongs right in the bin with the \"geeks can't get the girl\" stereotype." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Honestly - the whole \"sports fans are dumb\" stereotype belongs right in the bin with the \"geeks can't get the girl\" stereotype." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I skimmed some of the articles and found it disappointing that some people feel so strongly against sports.As a child, I also didn't like sports - mainly because I was asthmatic, unable to (or so I thought), and therefore apathetic to it.As a teenager, as my asthma receded, I came to enjoy sports. Now, practising martial arts, I really see the value in always pushing and analysing oneself, and likewise, pushing others, competing, and analysing them to see how I can overcome them. Meanwhile, I hope and expect they are doing the same.Experiences like those that the gay high school football player suffered ( http://www.sportssuck.org/gayfootball.htm ) do make me understand how some people can come to dislike sports though... however, it's not the sport to blame here, but a cruel culture of intolerance." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I skimmed some of the articles and found it disappointing that some people feel so strongly against sports.As a child, I also didn't like sports - mainly because I was asthmatic, unable to (or so I thought), and therefore apathetic to it.As a teenager, as my asthma receded, I came to enjoy sports. Now, practising martial arts, I really see the value in always pushing and analysing oneself, and likewise, pushing others, competing, and analysing them to see how I can overcome them. Meanwhile, I hope and expect they are doing the same.Experiences like those that the gay high school football player suffered ( http://www.sportssuck.org/gayfootball.htm ) do make me understand how some people can come to dislike sports though... however, it's not the sport to blame here, but a cruel culture of intolerance." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Sports are fun... there is something to be said for living and dying with 70,000 other people over something as insignificant as game. That's the point the anti-sports crowd (like my wife;>) never seem to get. We know it's 'just a game'. We know it's something we have no control over. We KNOW it's all quite meaningless in the grand scheme of things.We just don't care. It's one of the few things in life that allows me to be completely irrational and thrilled to death about it." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Sports are fun... there is something to be said for living and dying with 70,000 other people over something as insignificant as game. That's the point the anti-sports crowd (like my wife;>) never seem to get. We know it's 'just a game'. We know it's something we have no control over. We KNOW it's all quite meaningless in the grand scheme of things.We just don't care. It's one of the few things in life that allows me to be completely irrational and thrilled to death about it." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Little of what is on that site has to do with hating sports as pure games involving physical activity. Rather it seems the common theme (from my albeit brief inspection of the articles and forum) is the hate for the jock culture. And it seems the jock culture that many of these people have experienced is one of bullying. So instead of sportssuck.com, this site should really be renamed bullyingsucks.com." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The first thing I noticed is that they're missing Zenter, but the timeline is still cool because it starts in January 2001 with updates through this August. Any more that they've missed?" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The timeline is kinda neat, but it woulda been a lot better with an accompanying list with sort controls.Pretty good example of using AJAX to do something that you could've done easier and better without it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The timeline is kinda neat, but it woulda been a lot better with an accompanying list with sort controls.Pretty good example of using AJAX to do something that you could've done easier and better without it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "some of them seem to be hidden at the bottom of the timeline. I can see the very top half of the text, but not the whole lot. (FF+Mac)" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "some of them seem to be hidden at the bottom of the timeline. I can see the very top half of the text, but not the whole lot. (FF+Mac)" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "TextPayMe is on that list. Isnt this the acquisition YC still cant \"talk\" about?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "TextPayMe is on that list. Isnt this the acquisition YC still cant \"talk\" about?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Arnie St. => Amie St.Also, that was an investment, not an acquisition." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "So, the founder of Blue Label Labs, a company which "is a New York based iOS, Android and Windows Phone mobile design and development lab," doesn't like the DIY App tool that Microsoft released..? Shocking!Microsoft hate-train or not, let's not take this as an actual, level headed review of the system -- in any sense. The guy has a vested interest in it not being a good system, and selling it to people as such (regardless of reality)." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Seems to be down, cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://..." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Seems to be down, cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://..." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This article implies that the entire UI is crap but then goes on to complain solely about the casing and spacing of a few variables and a button. He does have a point that this amounts to noise for the uninitiated but I wouldn't say it breaks the UI. It seems like the author was eager to bash MS." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "This article implies that the entire UI is crap but then goes on to complain solely about the casing and spacing of a few variables and a button. He does have a point that this amounts to noise for the uninitiated but I wouldn't say it breaks the UI. It seems like the author was eager to bash MS." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I kept reading expecting a complaint other than the spacing and camel-case, but couldn't find any. I think you many be underestimating the non-programmer's ability to parse English, as I can't imagine it would be too difficult to realize 'ds' means Data Source when it's in the Data Source category. Those words seem to be labeling variables? Which if it's the case, having no spaces in variable names is indeed a good practice.Non-programmers can still use technical software." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I kept reading expecting a complaint other than the spacing and camel-case, but couldn't find any. I think you many be underestimating the non-programmer's ability to parse English, as I can't imagine it would be too difficult to realize 'ds' means Data Source when it's in the Data Source category. Those words seem to be labeling variables? Which if it's the case, having no spaces in variable names is indeed a good practice.Non-programmers can still use technical software." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.ide..." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I hate to break it to you, but Apple is very focused on increasing product turnover. Every other PC and laptop vendor is going through rough times because the obsolescence curve on Windows PC's has gotten so slow to fall off. A five year old PC can run Win8 (or Linux) pretty fine actually, so sales are in the scuppers.Would you want to install Mountain Lion on a five-year old Mac? Hell no!Apple saw that hardware was starting to last longer and took steps. Part of their solution was to try to innovate. Retina screens, multi-touch trackpads and an increased focus on gestures to justify their use over mice, etc.. Another part was to drive costs, and prices, down. Besides placing price pressure on the competition, occupying a lower price-bracket means people are more likely to upgrade more often rather than trying to nurse their old hardware along for as long as possible. This is the good. The other parts of their attack on long obsolescence cycles are not so good.All traces of easy upgradeability have left Apple's product line. You now need special tools to get into pretty much any Apple laptop, and they use propriety connectors for everything. Want to pop an off-the-shelf SSD into your Air? Not gonna happen. Yes, you can order Apple compatible parts and tools online, but this is not by Apple's design. They'd probably sue those guys into oblivion if they were really doing a lot of business.Apple laptops feel great in the hand, as if they're built to last generations, but they're actually horribly delicate in some respects. The Air can be bricked by a mere drop of liquid in the wrong spot (this actually happened to me. One drop. I'm not kidding.). The proprietary screws and integrated battery mean you can't remove the potential to stop the damage before it happens and then clean things up yourself. It's a horrible feeling watching your laptop fry itself knowing it could have been saved if it had been designed with a removeable battery. You'll get no sympathy from Apple either. Their warranty does not cover spill-damage. When this happened to me, the repair bill was literally larger than what I paid for my air in the first place! Subtle hint?Software glitches and poor support for older hardware are only the latest in a long sequence of Apple's moves to keep you buying new hardware. Have the geeks looked at your obsolete macbook, tsk'd, and subtly hinted that while you could continue suffering with that old beast, a new laptop would be very cheap and work much better!Apple is not stupid. They're actually really freakin' smart. I'd be willing to bet OSX users replace their laptops, on average, more than twice as often as Linux or Windows users." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "\"I’ve been struggling with my baby, a mid-2010 27″ iMac for months now. She’s been unstable for better than a year now, and it keeps getting worse. After a few minutes, or hours the screen gets corrupted. Little discolored squares appear and flicker and dance, eventually she hard locks. I have been meaning to take her to Apple but honestly… dragging an iMac through South Coast Plaza to the Apple store is a fucking miserable proposition, so I’ve been putting it off.\"Your fault.My daily machine is a mid-2011 MacBook Air and it works like a dream.My old machine was a late-2007 MacBook Pro. It's logic board started acting up about a year after I bought it. I didn't buy AppleCare. Apple fixed it out of warranty at no cost to me.Take it in. Apple will most likely fix it. Most likely at no cost to you. The machine has been acting up for a year. You chose to write a whiny blog post rather than take the machine in. That's your fault." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "\"I’ve been struggling with my baby, a mid-2010 27″ iMac for months now. She’s been unstable for better than a year now, and it keeps getting worse. After a few minutes, or hours the screen gets corrupted. Little discolored squares appear and flicker and dance, eventually she hard locks. I have been meaning to take her to Apple but honestly… dragging an iMac through South Coast Plaza to the Apple store is a fucking miserable proposition, so I’ve been putting it off.\"Your fault.My daily machine is a mid-2011 MacBook Air and it works like a dream.My old machine was a late-2007 MacBook Pro. It's logic board started acting up about a year after I bought it. I didn't buy AppleCare. Apple fixed it out of warranty at no cost to me.Take it in. Apple will most likely fix it. Most likely at no cost to you. The machine has been acting up for a year. You chose to write a whiny blog post rather than take the machine in. That's your fault." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Phenomenally stupid article.Dude obviously has graphics card issues. Refuses to take it in to be serviced. Acts all surprised when an OS update includes revisions to the graphics drivers, which caused the bad behavior to worsen. Decides the right course of action is to pen an internet screed against Apple because, well, I have no idea.The funniest part is, NVidia and ATI produce the graphics drivers, so if he wants to be mad at someone, he should be mad at them." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Phenomenally stupid article.Dude obviously has graphics card issues. Refuses to take it in to be serviced. Acts all surprised when an OS update includes revisions to the graphics drivers, which caused the bad behavior to worsen. Decides the right course of action is to pen an internet screed against Apple because, well, I have no idea.The funniest part is, NVidia and ATI produce the graphics drivers, so if he wants to be mad at someone, he should be mad at them." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "When talking about his unreliable iMac:> When a tool has served me well and needs to be taken care of, I feel I owe it that kindness for all its done for me.and then, when he wants to bash Linux:> A computer is a tool, that’s all. When it ceases to work reliably we have to move on.Why the double standard?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "When talking about his unreliable iMac:> When a tool has served me well and needs to be taken care of, I feel I owe it that kindness for all its done for me.and then, when he wants to bash Linux:> A computer is a tool, that’s all. When it ceases to work reliably we have to move on.Why the double standard?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "\"and Linux… Well, as someone who helped found Gentoo Linux, fuck Linux. It’s the absolute best thing for servers, AND NOTHING ELSE. If you’re running Linux on the desktop, you’re a person who would rather fix his computer than use it.\"Yeah, right. Say that to my many linux-using friends who can't write a simple \"hello world\" program to save their lives. Despite \"[helping] found Gentoo Linux\", the author comes off as a moron when he makes such comments about \"Linux\", whatever the heck it means here." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Alexis is one of the most positive and helpful people in the startup community I know. He drew the original logo for Justin.tv, helped us on numerous occasions, and has even tried to launch my voice acting career (a long time dream of mine). Why is he so helpful? Because at heart, Alexis is a great guy who is genuinely interested in helping others.This is a huge win for YC!" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "\"Anyone on the East Coast thinking of applying to YC should feel free to ask him any questions they have about YC or the application process.\"How? Is there an email address?Hopefully the answer isn't obvious and I've missed it." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "\"Anyone on the East Coast thinking of applying to YC should feel free to ask him any questions they have about YC or the application process.\"How? Is there an email address?Hopefully the answer isn't obvious and I've missed it." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Is YC planning on hiring similar \"evangelists\" for other places in the world? I'm wondering about Israel, specifically." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Is YC planning on hiring similar \"evangelists\" for other places in the world? I'm wondering about Israel, specifically." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Alexis as our Ambassador to the East and Steve (with Hipmunk) in the summer batch-- needless to say I am bursting with joy." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Alexis as our Ambassador to the East and Steve (with Hipmunk) in the summer batch-- needless to say I am bursting with joy." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "More discussion on the other thread:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1653134" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Hello,I've been hard at work on a project that I would like to share with you. It's called YouTab and its what I believe is a great way to sync lyrics and chords with music. The smart guys I work with use a nifty algorithm to "listen" to the music and in a lot of cases it does a really good job in getting the chords. But since technology has its limits there's an editor application that lets you fix what is wrong.I am hoping that this will develop into a useful resource for musicians and music lovers and I'd love to hear what you think about it and get ideas as to what you might like to see next.Thank you for taking the time to read this." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is really nice. There are a number of songs whose chords I can't find, and this one came up with (at the very least) a starting point for figuring it out. I like how it tracks the beat and shows the waveform, and I especially like having the video play in the bottom right so I can watch as I play.Very cool. The only nitpick is a copy tweak. Throughout the app the app refers to itself as "us" or "our" ("Working our magic") and then almost immediately after as "me" ("It takes me about 30 seconds.") You should consider unifying the pronouns so that either you're always using first person, or you're always using the royal "we".Otherwise, this is pretty rad. I can see myself using this to practice some new songs that come out." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is really nice. There are a number of songs whose chords I can't find, and this one came up with (at the very least) a starting point for figuring it out. I like how it tracks the beat and shows the waveform, and I especially like having the video play in the bottom right so I can watch as I play.Very cool. The only nitpick is a copy tweak. Throughout the app the app refers to itself as "us" or "our" ("Working our magic") and then almost immediately after as "me" ("It takes me about 30 seconds.") You should consider unifying the pronouns so that either you're always using first person, or you're always using the royal "we".Otherwise, this is pretty rad. I can see myself using this to practice some new songs that come out." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Both this and Chordify are really awesome endeavors! However, I find them both to be erratic in accuracy to the same degree. Many times, a major in a simple I-IV-V pattern will turn into a minor, or vice versa, or a simple major will excitedly be read as a major 7th. It must be a huge pain in the ass trying to pluck out these harmonics and to accommodate for all sorts of wacky instruments, so I'll let it slide! Both services are tremendous if only for getting the initial framework for a song and figuring out some of the incorrect chords yourself.Does YouTab have a "confidence" rating for each chord? I don't know if it'd be the best UX to include that number for each chord (and maybe even alternate chord suggestions), but there are times when I'm simply playing along with the song incorrectly and it takes me a couple amateur minutes to correct the one chord that Chordify got wrong.Great stuff, anyway!" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "Both this and Chordify are really awesome endeavors! However, I find them both to be erratic in accuracy to the same degree. Many times, a major in a simple I-IV-V pattern will turn into a minor, or vice versa, or a simple major will excitedly be read as a major 7th. It must be a huge pain in the ass trying to pluck out these harmonics and to accommodate for all sorts of wacky instruments, so I'll let it slide! Both services are tremendous if only for getting the initial framework for a song and figuring out some of the incorrect chords yourself.Does YouTab have a "confidence" rating for each chord? I don't know if it'd be the best UX to include that number for each chord (and maybe even alternate chord suggestions), but there are times when I'm simply playing along with the song incorrectly and it takes me a couple amateur minutes to correct the one chord that Chordify got wrong.Great stuff, anyway!" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I'm pretty impressed with this - I purposely fed it a song I thought would kill it ("Fuzz Universe" By Paul Gilbert) - It did an impressive job of capturing many of the underlying chords, while ignoring the lead lines over the top. I notice that it is not really great at capturing very fast chord changes, an has some trouble with varying time signatures, but great first effort. It would be pretty cool if you could upload your own MP3 to it, and get a result back - that way you could generate the output off a recording of yourself to distribute to bandmates.Edit: Later, that song did kill it, as the changes got faster/harder.Also, it doesn't seem to have a complete set of possible chords - one song to check would be "A hard Day's Night" by the Beatles. It has a difficult and distinct first Chord which might be valuable to test against." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "I'm pretty impressed with this - I purposely fed it a song I thought would kill it ("Fuzz Universe" By Paul Gilbert) - It did an impressive job of capturing many of the underlying chords, while ignoring the lead lines over the top. I notice that it is not really great at capturing very fast chord changes, an has some trouble with varying time signatures, but great first effort. It would be pretty cool if you could upload your own MP3 to it, and get a result back - that way you could generate the output off a recording of yourself to distribute to bandmates.Edit: Later, that song did kill it, as the changes got faster/harder.Also, it doesn't seem to have a complete set of possible chords - one song to check would be "A hard Day's Night" by the Beatles. It has a difficult and distinct first Chord which might be valuable to test against." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Been having a lot of success with Capo [1] recently - excellent beat and chord detection (though it often overcomplicates simple fifths and sus4s assuming they're much more full voiced than they are); also provides a time/frequency intensity view that you can use to pick out melody lines which it automatically translates into tab.[1] http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/capo/" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "Joel Spolsky (remember him :-) gave us a great example of how Bill Gates did product reviews in the early '90s: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html E.g.:"He didn't meddle in software if he trusted the people who were working on it, but you couldn't bullshit him for a minute because he was a programmer. A real, actual, programmer."And the article details how those two were intimately linked." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Let me gently remind everyone that one success or failure is not completely deterministic.A single business failure or short-term success doesn't say much about someone as a founder. That his/her interest and drive can be made to fit the current market conditions plus still more relatively intangible luck in other areas factor heavily in any end result.Founders who have successfully built and sold, say at least three companies for millions each over a period of years would tell me this person has a genuine talent for entrepreneurship.Best to go for it, and if it takes off get all you can while it's there to be had, setting aside an untouchable personal nest egg as soon as you can. You should have a feel for the business so if a good offer comes along when your gut tell you that it has perhaps plateaued or peaked take that as an exit sign. If it doesn't take off don't be discouraged, know when to make that exit too." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "Let me gently remind everyone that one success or failure is not completely deterministic.A single business failure or short-term success doesn't say much about someone as a founder. That his/her interest and drive can be made to fit the current market conditions plus still more relatively intangible luck in other areas factor heavily in any end result.Founders who have successfully built and sold, say at least three companies for millions each over a period of years would tell me this person has a genuine talent for entrepreneurship.Best to go for it, and if it takes off get all you can while it's there to be had, setting aside an untouchable personal nest egg as soon as you can. You should have a feel for the business so if a good offer comes along when your gut tell you that it has perhaps plateaued or peaked take that as an exit sign. If it doesn't take off don't be discouraged, know when to make that exit too." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "As a founder, you are an idea, product, execution, sales, or customer service guy. Rarely do you start out good at all of those. You may never have them all. Get good help fast in the areas you fail at.Founder's fail because they lose (or never really had) empathy for their customers or staff in these areas. If you can't feel what your users/staff feel, you can't properly navigate them out of their pain." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "As a founder, you are an idea, product, execution, sales, or customer service guy. Rarely do you start out good at all of those. You may never have them all. Get good help fast in the areas you fail at.Founder's fail because they lose (or never really had) empathy for their customers or staff in these areas. If you can't feel what your users/staff feel, you can't properly navigate them out of their pain." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Unrelated, but I've noticed that often when Ben Horowitz discusses a theoretical CEO, he will often refer to that CEO as a female. I'm sure it isn't a mistake, but that he is consciously trying to promote female leadership roles in the industry.Does anybody else notice that?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Unrelated, but I've noticed that often when Ben Horowitz discusses a theoretical CEO, he will often refer to that CEO as a female. I'm sure it isn't a mistake, but that he is consciously trying to promote female leadership roles in the industry.Does anybody else notice that?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Seems to me some founders are the right CEO for the first few years of a company, and should be replaced at a certain point in scale. Typically they transition to a CTO, board-level advisor, or chief visionary sort of position. Often, after a few more years, the founder will leave, either because (s)he hasn't been able to fully release the reins, or just because (s)he is bored and wants to start a new venture. [edit: or because the CEO is a paranoid psychopath and wants to scorch the earth, enforce fealty, and redact the founder from the company history.]" }

{ "score": 0, "text": "I've been in Toastmasters for three years now. I think it's great for building confidence. Although I still have a lot of room for improvement, I've come a long way already. It will help you become better with prepared speeches, leading, listening, and impromptu speaking. I was president of my club last year, which was a good experience as well. I highly recommend visiting a club or two in your area. Each club has a slightly different feel and you should pick one that you're comfortable with.Edit: To give some specifics, I used to have awkward and distracting hand gestures. I've learned to control them and I've actually gotten comments that my gestures are good now. Also, I initially tried to fit in too many details into my speeches, and they would always go over the time limit. I've learned to highlight the important points and trim speeches down (that takes work though). Vocal variety is something I'm working on improving at the moment.Also, if you want to experience presenting under pressure, there are speech contests twice a year which are fun and competitive." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I was in Toastmasters for many years, and if there were a group in my city whose meeting times fit my schedule, I'd probably still go.I particularly liked the peer review process (making you both a better speaker and listener, and making you, as a reviewer, pay attention to what makes other people more or less effective speakers), and the well organized manuals. As much as I thought in advance I knew about e.g., humorous speaking, having a topic broken down into individual aspects was a great way to learn.On the down side, at times some events had the ring of a success cargo cult to it — people thinking that if they learned just the right inflection and hand gestures, they were bound for great things.Still, I recommend it highly. In most urban areas in the US, there seems to be a large number of clubs to pick from. There is quite a bit of variety between clubs, so it can be a good idea to attend a few different ones before settling down — clubs tend to be welcoming toward guests, and generally don't resort to high pressure tactics to make you sign up." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "I was in Toastmasters for many years, and if there were a group in my city whose meeting times fit my schedule, I'd probably still go.I particularly liked the peer review process (making you both a better speaker and listener, and making you, as a reviewer, pay attention to what makes other people more or less effective speakers), and the well organized manuals. As much as I thought in advance I knew about e.g., humorous speaking, having a topic broken down into individual aspects was a great way to learn.On the down side, at times some events had the ring of a success cargo cult to it — people thinking that if they learned just the right inflection and hand gestures, they were bound for great things.Still, I recommend it highly. In most urban areas in the US, there seems to be a large number of clubs to pick from. There is quite a bit of variety between clubs, so it can be a good idea to attend a few different ones before settling down — clubs tend to be welcoming toward guests, and generally don't resort to high pressure tactics to make you sign up." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I attend a private toastmasters club here at the office. I've been going for about 4 months now.Our veteran members can give nice speeches off the cuff with zero preparation.I've only given two speeches so far myself but it's already helping with my confidence. There is a strong leadership component to Toastmasters as well - that's where I'm really seeing benefits." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I attend a private toastmasters club here at the office. I've been going for about 4 months now.Our veteran members can give nice speeches off the cuff with zero preparation.I've only given two speeches so far myself but it's already helping with my confidence. There is a strong leadership component to Toastmasters as well - that's where I'm really seeing benefits." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "My father is the chapter president of his club in Connecticut. He swears by it. I have been to his club twice and plan on going to one in San Francisco tomorrow, the rhino club I believe...My father is the best salesman I know. He could sell noise-canceling headphones to deaf people, and I want to earn that confidence by going to toastmasters." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "My father is the chapter president of his club in Connecticut. He swears by it. I have been to his club twice and plan on going to one in San Francisco tomorrow, the rhino club I believe...My father is the best salesman I know. He could sell noise-canceling headphones to deaf people, and I want to earn that confidence by going to toastmasters." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "i suggest you go to ignite. http://ignite.oreilly.com/i saw a pitch recently, and the guy did the first half in style of ignite presentation. it was solid." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "1. This is bad for antivirus vendors who want to continue doing the same ol' thing. McAfee, AVG, and others are still terrible, and Norton has got such a bad reputation that even though its recent products have improved (somewhat?), it will be a long time before independent consultants start recommending it again. So this is going to put pressure on these companies to do something newer and better, which is great.2. But, it likely won't change what actually ships with new PCs, since PC vendors these days (Dell and Acer directly, Best Buy, Staples, and others) make their margins by shipping computers with a free trial version of McAfee or Norton in the hopes that the customer will be snookered into paying for the software. In our experience, most customers do end up buying it, since they don't know any better.3. Although we recommend and love Microsoft Security Essentials, it is not perfect. Just last week we had to do a manual cleanup of infected register systems for a local business where both MalwareBytes and MSE missed major components of the virus. The leftover components were sufficient to re-infect the systems -- while running in Safe Mode. (This was XP, for those wondering.)4. Malware developers still have a lot of tricks they haven't even tried yet, that honestly I'm surprised haven't shown up already.5. Malware is largely a commercial industry now, so there will be financial pressure on malware developers to adopt new tactics to defeat the bundled antivirus.6. But, antivirus technology also still has a lot of room to improve. Microsoft especially is in a unique position to do this because they can legally do things like repair infected or damaged components of Microsoft software from clean copies, which might be a legal gray area for independent companies. (I am not a lawyer and all that.) Microsoft has the capability and resources for example to develop software which can examine key operating system areas for anything that looks suspicious -- something which most antivirus software doesn't do now.7. In our end of the business, it could be a mixed blessing. On the one hand, we lose money on every single virus cleanup that we do, and I hate charging people for it anyway. On the other, it does drive new customers to us and gives us the opportunity to really make a strong first impression. But I won't cry into my pillow at night if Microsoft somehow manages to eviscerate the malware industry.8. But, I'm skeptical about rapid adoption. What we're seeing right now is more and more people trying to keep their computer-related costs down. We're still doing significant XP support -- probably over half of our Windows users, if I had to estimate -- and, earlier today, the only reason we were able to convince a client that they would actually be better off buying a new replacement system is because decent IDE hard drive upgrades right now just aren't worth it. If this trend continues, and if Windows 7 continues to be \"good enough\" for most people, it'll be years before we see enough adoption of Windows 8 to make a dent in malware, which gives the malware developers plenty of time to adapt. (But, I could be surprised. Then again, what I've seen so far of Windows 8 isn't exactly compelling.)9. Finally, the best place right now to stop malware, in our opinion, is still the browser. Chrome + AdBlock Plus by itself typically prevents repeat malware cleanups. The major exception to this was Limewire.So, basically: I don't think this will really have that much of an impact any time in the near future, but if it does, it will probably make malware nastier and antivirus software better, and it will still be business-as-usual for support companies, which means it won't really improve consumers' lives much." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is a good thing. Anti-virus companies have gotten lazy, mostly to increase profits.I have in-house knowledge of an anti-virus product (BitDefender) that could have been the best in the world. But instead the board of directors decided one day that the product is too good and that they should keep it down a notch, as it wasn't worth it to keep so many talented developers on the payroll. The product itself is still good, but is bloated (as normal users need to see a lot of background activity and red lights for the cost to be justified) and it's not what it should have been.In general I feel bad when companies get bitten by Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior, but not this time." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This is a good thing. Anti-virus companies have gotten lazy, mostly to increase profits.I have in-house knowledge of an anti-virus product (BitDefender) that could have been the best in the world. But instead the board of directors decided one day that the product is too good and that they should keep it down a notch, as it wasn't worth it to keep so many talented developers on the payroll. The product itself is still good, but is bloated (as normal users need to see a lot of background activity and red lights for the cost to be justified) and it's not what it should have been.In general I feel bad when companies get bitten by Microsoft's anti-competitive behavior, but not this time." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I would be more bothered if other vendors anti-malware wasn't terrible. Every virus-like behavior I've seen over the past several years was actually anti-malware misbehaving. One particular peeve is disk usage - anti-virus scans at a low priority, but somehow the disk slows to a crawl anyway. I suspect that the antivirus gets fewer I/O requests serviced, but causes many seeks so once it gets an I/O request honored, the disk is tied up until the seek completes. It would be nice if the OS took care of this, but given that it doesn't, I blame the anti-malware vendors for not caring about their customers." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I would be more bothered if other vendors anti-malware wasn't terrible. Every virus-like behavior I've seen over the past several years was actually anti-malware misbehaving. One particular peeve is disk usage - anti-virus scans at a low priority, but somehow the disk slows to a crawl anyway. I suspect that the antivirus gets fewer I/O requests serviced, but causes many seeks so once it gets an I/O request honored, the disk is tied up until the seek completes. It would be nice if the OS took care of this, but given that it doesn't, I blame the anti-malware vendors for not caring about their customers." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Some people seem to have forgotten that the reason MSE is so good is because Microsoft have an entire department that explores those DrWatson errors people send them. Some of the time the reports include virus authors' early attempts which are accidentally sent and then used to create virus definitions.If MSE was installed by default, the data MS would have to improve it would increase by a substantial amount. Also, MSE is generally rated the best AV in pretty much every independant review I've seen.\"Malware authors. You don't think they're going to ignore this development, do you? If most budget-conscious home users stick with Microsoft's built-in offering, then surely the first thing the bad guys will do is make sure their latest creation can slip past Microsoft's scanner.\"While misguided, this point raises a problem. By having a single 'default' AV installed, it might mean the attack surface is made simpler as malware writers need only target a single scanner. With MS' demonstrated speed in addressing issues however, I doubt this is a great threat." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Some people seem to have forgotten that the reason MSE is so good is because Microsoft have an entire department that explores those DrWatson errors people send them. Some of the time the reports include virus authors' early attempts which are accidentally sent and then used to create virus definitions.If MSE was installed by default, the data MS would have to improve it would increase by a substantial amount. Also, MSE is generally rated the best AV in pretty much every independant review I've seen.\"Malware authors. You don't think they're going to ignore this development, do you? If most budget-conscious home users stick with Microsoft's built-in offering, then surely the first thing the bad guys will do is make sure their latest creation can slip past Microsoft's scanner.\"While misguided, this point raises a problem. By having a single 'default' AV installed, it might mean the attack surface is made simpler as malware writers need only target a single scanner. With MS' demonstrated speed in addressing issues however, I doubt this is a great threat." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "Pig and Hungry hungry hippo eh? Couldn't have put it better myself. So tired of seeing this crap foisted upon people who don't know any better. While I see the author's point about it being a bad thing for all users to be protected by the same antivirus software, I must say that MSE is the only antivirus software I've ever been comfortable using. I didn't use antivirus software for well over a decade, but MSE has such a small footprint and is so unobtrusive that it's now a question of 'Why not?'." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "There are quite a lot of founders over 30. I don't know exactly how many because we don't keep track of ages. The sharp falloff is around 35, but we've had a handful of founders over 40. None over 50 though.I think our age distribution is probably close to the age distribution for startups generally. We've funded more founders who are 27 than 20 or 35 because more people start startups at 27 than at 20 or 35." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This thread (and the link to the Gladwell essay that someone submitted to it earlier) are interesting. I'm 39 years old, and want to start my own company and change my career from journalist to news technologist/entrepreneur. Some readers might chuckle at that, but I am very serious.In my mind, the question of the age of YC founders has much to do with the threshold for risk. Age definitely plays a part. But age does not crush vision, and brings some benefits in terms of experience and understanding of target markets. In my own case, I have an idea for a mobile news platform that I believe will change the way in which a lot of people get information. I think it would be a product that people want, but the only way to find out is to build it and see what the market thinks.But I recognize that there are a lot of barriers to achieving my vision.First, I'm not a hacker, and I don't have a co-founder (yet) who is. I think in pg's view, this would preclude me from starting this type of company (based on some of his commentary in Founders At Work and in http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html). Nevertheless, I have a lot of experience with the technologies that would drive the platform, and insights into the way people consume information, and I think this will be extremely valuable in driving product development.Second, I have a family and a mortgage. Others have noted family-related issues, but the situation really depends on the specifics of your family. My wife is not working, as my youngest is in preschool only for three mornings a week. This makes it impossible for me to take the risk right now to drop my day job and the health insurance that comes with it (I live in the U.S., in the Boston area) and work full time on my product. If my wife was working in a professional position, not only would we have the salary and insurance to fall back on if I stopped working at my day job, but also we could afford day care.So, what I am doing right now is plugging away at the business plan and some of the technical concepts in my spare time, usually for two hours per day after the kids go to sleep. I'm trying to bone up on my understanding of the platforms that I think I will need to grok in order to get this thing off the ground. I've stopped putting money in my 401k to build up some funds, and I'm considering how I might tap other sources of funding -- not to mention considering various revenue streams from the product itself.Would I ever apply to Y Combinator? I couldn't do it on my own, but I might, if I had the right team and could consider taking off for a few months (I wish YC still had the summer program in Cambridge!). The family-related concerns are real, but there are ways to address them (for instance, COBRA for health insurance and enough funding to cover my mortgage and living expenses).Edited: Changed first sentence to add Gladwell ref" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "This thread (and the link to the Gladwell essay that someone submitted to it earlier) are interesting. I'm 39 years old, and want to start my own company and change my career from journalist to news technologist/entrepreneur. Some readers might chuckle at that, but I am very serious.In my mind, the question of the age of YC founders has much to do with the threshold for risk. Age definitely plays a part. But age does not crush vision, and brings some benefits in terms of experience and understanding of target markets. In my own case, I have an idea for a mobile news platform that I believe will change the way in which a lot of people get information. I think it would be a product that people want, but the only way to find out is to build it and see what the market thinks.But I recognize that there are a lot of barriers to achieving my vision.First, I'm not a hacker, and I don't have a co-founder (yet) who is. I think in pg's view, this would preclude me from starting this type of company (based on some of his commentary in Founders At Work and in http://paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html). Nevertheless, I have a lot of experience with the technologies that would drive the platform, and insights into the way people consume information, and I think this will be extremely valuable in driving product development.Second, I have a family and a mortgage. Others have noted family-related issues, but the situation really depends on the specifics of your family. My wife is not working, as my youngest is in preschool only for three mornings a week. This makes it impossible for me to take the risk right now to drop my day job and the health insurance that comes with it (I live in the U.S., in the Boston area) and work full time on my product. If my wife was working in a professional position, not only would we have the salary and insurance to fall back on if I stopped working at my day job, but also we could afford day care.So, what I am doing right now is plugging away at the business plan and some of the technical concepts in my spare time, usually for two hours per day after the kids go to sleep. I'm trying to bone up on my understanding of the platforms that I think I will need to grok in order to get this thing off the ground. I've stopped putting money in my 401k to build up some funds, and I'm considering how I might tap other sources of funding -- not to mention considering various revenue streams from the product itself.Would I ever apply to Y Combinator? I couldn't do it on my own, but I might, if I had the right team and could consider taking off for a few months (I wish YC still had the summer program in Cambridge!). The family-related concerns are real, but there are ways to address them (for instance, COBRA for health insurance and enough funding to cover my mortgage and living expenses).Edited: Changed first sentence to add Gladwell ref" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "A common belief is that U.S.-born\ntech founders of technology\ncompanies tend to be young.\nWe found that about 1 percent\nwere teenagers when they started their firms.\nMore than twice as many were older than\nage fifty than were younger than twenty-five.\nMany, in fact, were in their sixties when they\nfounded their startups.\nThe vast majority of U.S.-born tech\nfounders were older than twenty-five.\nThe average and median age of key tech\nfounders was thirty-nine.Source: http://sites.kauffman.org/pdf/Education_Tech_Ent_061108.pdf" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "A common belief is that U.S.-born\ntech founders of technology\ncompanies tend to be young.\nWe found that about 1 percent\nwere teenagers when they started their firms.\nMore than twice as many were older than\nage fifty than were younger than twenty-five.\nMany, in fact, were in their sixties when they\nfounded their startups.\nThe vast majority of U.S.-born tech\nfounders were older than twenty-five.\nThe average and median age of key tech\nfounders was thirty-nine.Source: http://sites.kauffman.org/pdf/Education_Tech_Ent_061108.pdf" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "The demographics here are kind of straightforward.If you're over 30, you're more likely to have a family.If you have a family and you can handle starting a company from zero, you're less likely to need YC. If you can't handle starting from zero, YC doesn't help you anyways." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "The demographics here are kind of straightforward.If you're over 30, you're more likely to have a family.If you have a family and you can handle starting a company from zero, you're less likely to need YC. If you can't handle starting from zero, YC doesn't help you anyways." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "This article has some good insight into people who succeed later in life (late bloomers): http://www.gladwell.com/2008/2008_10_20_a_latebloomers.htmlIt does happen, and it's not as rare as most people think. The article also makes a pretty strong argument that late bloomers tend to approach things differently than those who get an early start." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "The end of the article maybe got it right : what if the apple tv really was just the Apple Tv ? The one already being sold.\nJobs was quoted as saying that he finally found the solution to TV. What if it meant to completely separate any kind of intelligence from the big heavy screen to move it aside in a small easy to replace box ?That would be funny. People gossiping about a product without realizing it's already on sale :)" }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The analysts and tech media pundits always bring up a possible watch or TV as apple's next blockbuster, game changing product. But making TVs by itself doesn't sound like a good business decision to me. It would be hard to maintain healthy margins if they have to fragment their hardware production to cover something as costly as making next generation, HD televisions.I guess the only real upside of an Apple TV (for Apple), is that its in their most critical interest to be in every media and communication interaction of one's day to day life. If Apple makes your phone, your computer, your tablet, your car's software, your music player AND your TV, they will pretty much have a figurative monopoly over your attention and an endless spectrum to sell you things via iTunes. Given that, tighter margins might be somewhat of a trade off for more presence in the life of an Apple user/Apple using family." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "The analysts and tech media pundits always bring up a possible watch or TV as apple's next blockbuster, game changing product. But making TVs by itself doesn't sound like a good business decision to me. It would be hard to maintain healthy margins if they have to fragment their hardware production to cover something as costly as making next generation, HD televisions.I guess the only real upside of an Apple TV (for Apple), is that its in their most critical interest to be in every media and communication interaction of one's day to day life. If Apple makes your phone, your computer, your tablet, your car's software, your music player AND your TV, they will pretty much have a figurative monopoly over your attention and an endless spectrum to sell you things via iTunes. Given that, tighter margins might be somewhat of a trade off for more presence in the life of an Apple user/Apple using family." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I've written similar things myself in the past[0].The bit missed by the article is the complexity of supporting global broadcasts so I think an AppleTV would be IP (and HDMI) only.I'm sure the UI would be great but you don't use the UI much on a TV, you out what you want on and then you watch.I argued that the best reason to enter the TV market would be to hurt Samsung rather than to make big profits.Of course, mobile phone pundits got the iPhone wrong so it is possible that I'm completely wrong.[0] http://blog.jtl.me.uk/apple-tv-the-market-challenges" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "I've written similar things myself in the past[0].The bit missed by the article is the complexity of supporting global broadcasts so I think an AppleTV would be IP (and HDMI) only.I'm sure the UI would be great but you don't use the UI much on a TV, you out what you want on and then you watch.I argued that the best reason to enter the TV market would be to hurt Samsung rather than to make big profits.Of course, mobile phone pundits got the iPhone wrong so it is possible that I'm completely wrong.[0] http://blog.jtl.me.uk/apple-tv-the-market-challenges" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Apple hasn't had trouble selling 27"/30" Displays and iMacs before, if they can handle those, they can handle a HDTV display. An Apple TV Set just needs two things:1. Input ZERO for Airplay. When you airplay a video from your phone/iPad, the TV turns on automatically and starts playing the video without you having to find the crappy TV and receiver remotes and switching to the right input.2. The ability to upgrade easily by just plugging in a new $99 puck whenever you want to take advantage of a new service that requires more processing speed." }

{ "score": 3, "text": "Apple hasn't had trouble selling 27"/30" Displays and iMacs before, if they can handle those, they can handle a HDTV display. An Apple TV Set just needs two things:1. Input ZERO for Airplay. When you airplay a video from your phone/iPad, the TV turns on automatically and starts playing the video without you having to find the crappy TV and receiver remotes and switching to the right input.2. The ability to upgrade easily by just plugging in a new $99 puck whenever you want to take advantage of a new service that requires more processing speed." }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I'm pretty sure if we ever see the Apple TV, it will be an entirely different UX than what we have become accustomed to. Just like you don't compare your smart "phone" with a classic "phone", you probably won't compare your Apple TV with a classic TV. They will be the same only in name and form factor, but the experience and functionality will be much different." }

{ "score": 0, "text": "vesper % twat -h ~ (1.9.2) home:1897 15:55\nUsage: twat <tweet>\n -n, --account ACCOUNT Tweet from ACCOUNT (or default)\n -a, --add ACCOUNT Configure and authorise ACCOUNT\n -d, --delete ACCOUNT Delete ACCOUNT\n -h, --help Display this screen\nvesper %Granted yes, the docs suck. I will update them this weekend." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "And here I thought everyone might have had their fill of this kind of thing after the whole \"upskirt\" kerfuffle from earlier this year." }

{ "score": 1, "text": "And here I thought everyone might have had their fill of this kind of thing after the whole \"upskirt\" kerfuffle from earlier this year." }

{ "score": 2, "text": "What a bad choice for a name. Was it intentional?" }

{ "score": 2, "text": "What a bad choice for a name. Was it intentional?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "No man page. No help entry. Seems to be broken. Where's the docs?" }

{ "score": 3, "text": "No man page. No help entry. Seems to be broken. Where's the docs?" }

{ "score": 4, "text": "I'm the author, it was definitely intentional :D" }