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46,209	45,698	kasian_franks	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	One of the best articles I've ever read on the DNA of successful technologies, ideas and companies. Any involved in a technology company should read, including friends and family. A possible reason some larger companies are finding it hard to compete.	null	57	142	2007-08-24 15:45:13 UTC
46,210	45,815	abrown	Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.	brett	I like it. One nitpick is that when you go to the login page the cursor does not default to the login field. This is kind of expected behavior.Anyway, pretty useful little app. Thanks!Edit: Feature added, rock on.	null	5	43	2007-08-24 15:46:10 UTC
46,212	46,039	mikesabat	PG's Rarely Asked Questions (never seen this one before)	vlad	For a good Philosophy book, Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass	null	3	18	2007-08-24 15:49:07 UTC
46,214	46,136	aston	Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -> JAVA	davidw	Next up: AAPL changes their ticker symbol to IPOD.	null	2	19	2007-08-24 15:51:57 UTC
46,223	46,195	falsestprophet	Mark Cuban: The internet is 'dead and boring'	nickb	I thought Mark Cuban was an idiot long before this.	null	1	5	2007-08-24 16:11:38 UTC
46,226	46,213	palish	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.When you add a link in your chain, it's automatically submitted to a centralized place where others accomplishing the same goal will upvote you and cheer you on.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :) I posted that here because I can't seem to edit the initial text.. But have fun!	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	0	17	2007-08-24 16:15:34 UTC
46,228	46,165	ivankirigin	"I'll eat my hat if that isn't Einstein" (Einstein as seen by another scientist, Norbert Wiener)	hhm	'Renewed war in Europe, he predicted, would pass the "leadership of civilization...to America and ultimately to Asia ."'That is an astoundingly accurate prediction for 1925.	null	0	16	2007-08-24 16:16:41 UTC
46,230	45,698	ezyeric	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	WOW what great insite. I have been telling my boss that I work much better at home with less distractions. Now you have pointed out why that is true. My boss is really against telecomuting. I am going to she them this article.	null	60	142	2007-08-24 16:22:33 UTC
46,231	46,135	chmac	Rise of the wikicrats	davidw	What will the next generation of social content look like then? Personally, I think the next "big thing" will be trust metrics. Wikipedia's challenges could be solved by a trust matrix.If users were given trust values (think eBay feedback, but a bit smarter) and then users could in turn rate articles, that would at least partially solve some of Wikipedia's biggest criticisms (the content is unchecked and liable to spam / abuse).Trust networks like that scale exponentially with the number of nodes (users and articles) so I suppose it would significantly increase the resources required to host something like Wikipedia.	null	0	18	2007-08-24 16:23:18 UTC
46,233	45,815	puneetht	Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.	brett	how about allowing me to track more than one project (i.e chain). Nice work.	null	15	43	2007-08-24 16:25:52 UTC
46,234	46,213	vlad	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	Cool! Keep it up!	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	12	17	2007-08-24 16:27:52 UTC
46,235	46,135	zach	Rise of the wikicrats	davidw	Someone could do us all a service by presenting a talk called "A Practical Guide To Avoiding Internet Drama on Your Service" and offering advice on structuring discussion, interaction and administration to avoid problems like this.My #1 suggestion: if you must have an "off-topic" forum, make sure it's clear that it's not the "no rules" forum.	null	1	18	2007-08-24 16:28:25 UTC
46,237	46,213	mynameishere	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	Just wondering: Did you actually do the paperwork and start a company called "Chain Enterprises"?	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	10	17	2007-08-24 16:34:52 UTC
46,242	46,213	dpapathanasiou	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	You're taking that Seinfeld slogan way too seriously.If you're stuck for a project idea, why not go on a few dates with the opposite sex (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129)?	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	3	17	2007-08-24 16:40:26 UTC
46,247	46,213	createaccount	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	I'm recommending the f* chain to my girlfriend right now!I've been trying to find a way to show her that we've been slipping:)	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	1	17	2007-08-24 16:45:21 UTC
46,250	46,024	ajmoir	What should a striving non-programmer do?	xzibitendo	Find a co-contributor. Carigslist etc. Put out an ad on the gigs forum. As a dev coming at it from the other angle. I have the skills but not many business ideas. But I also have clear ideas what I'm willing to work on.If it's just a copy of something existing then don't expect many replies. But an exciting new idea would have many responses.	I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.	11	23	2007-08-24 16:48:56 UTC
46,251	45,773	ivankirigin	Philip Greenspun: Improving Undergraduate Computer Science Education	adamdoupe	Excellent advice. This was particularly good: "Everything that is part of a bachelor's in CS can be taught as part of a project that has all phases of the engineering cycle, e.g., teach physics and calculus by assigning students to build a flight simulator"	null	3	45	2007-08-24 16:49:44 UTC
46,256	46,224	iamyoohoo	Pingdom offer free subscription and then lose their site	piers	I actually signed up - so hopefully they are not down for long....	I would have posted the url above but there's no point. Pingdom (www.pingdom.com) started an offer that if you registered whilst using Firefox then you would get a year's free subscription. Unfortunately it seems that this was a very attractive offer and now their site has gone down. Oops.	1	1	2007-08-24 16:55:32 UTC
46,260	46,213	r7000	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	the + looks like a +/- signI keep on reading "plus or minus 2 people will exercise"good work! nice layout ;-)	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	9	17	2007-08-24 17:03:22 UTC
46,261	46,240	pg	37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!)	nickb	YC tried highrise. It is not good. I actually went to the trouble of telling Fried what seemed broken about it, and got back a reply saying everybody else loved it, so I must be wrong.	null	0	19	2007-08-24 17:04:21 UTC
46,271	46,183	bosshog	MySpace on Facebook	bosshog	really interesting that facebook supports a myspace network on their site...	Corportate espionage or admission of a better platform? 185 Myspacer employees use facebook...probably over 60% of their employees...	0	2	2007-08-24 17:22:06 UTC
46,273	46,268	next	iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity	nostrademons	Next: Linux on the IPhone please. Are there any Linux phones besides OpenMoko yet?	null	1	36	2007-08-24 17:26:46 UTC
46,275	46,213	omouse	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	It's cool but I don't get how the chain-linked fence image works.Also, how different from 43things.com is this? Why would a 43things.com user want to switch to cha1n.com?	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	7	17	2007-08-24 17:29:46 UTC
46,278	46,240	r7000	37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!)	nickb	You can't be the flavour-of-the-month every month. The article seems a bit like hastily written link spam.	null	3	19	2007-08-24 17:31:06 UTC
46,282	46,213	falsestprophet	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	So, it looks like a lot of our peers are sexually frustrated.	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	8	17	2007-08-24 17:41:16 UTC
46,284	45,698	ntoshev	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	Great points. They make me ask what PG thinks about unit tests: they seem to be like an exoskeleton allowing you to keep just a part of the program in your head. Or are they just a distraction?	null	64	142	2007-08-24 17:49:30 UTC
46,288	45,698	dpawson	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	Great essay Paul. Some echoes of your Lisp book and Code Complete!The only downside to working on your own is that you don't see the bugs that you create through not seeing the problem? Others seem to see what you don't? That solo work needs tempering with some level of review. I chuckled over the effort spent on 'homers', work done (perhaps even for the company) in a persons own time. Boy does that work get some deep concentration and produce some good results!Thanks Paul. DaveP	null	49	142	2007-08-24 17:57:09 UTC
46,291	46,193	vikram	jQuery 1.1.4 Released with Impressive Speed Improvements	nickb	That sounds good. I love jquery its so simple.	null	2	7	2007-08-24 17:59:42 UTC
46,293	46,024	zcoelius	What should a striving non-programmer do?	xzibitendo	I have to disagree with all the hackers in this discussion. Code is super important, but a startup is still a business. Business is a team sport that requires many different talents. If you can't code move out to San Francisco or someplace where startup congregate and find a startup that needs your talents whatever they may be. Learn the ropes and meet people. Repeat. Thats what I did. There are lots of non-technical people who have done well this way. Read Mark Cuban's posts on motivations. He was non-technical and kicked ass.I moved out to SF as a non-technical biz guy two years ago and now I run a VC backed startup. It can be done.	I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.	5	23	2007-08-24 18:02:59 UTC
46,296	45,603	inklesspen	c10k: Handling 10 thousand symultaneous connections.	euccastro	YAWS: http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.htmlHandles 90,000 connections on a box where Apache dies at 4,000.I didn't see Erlang in that article. I wonder why.	null	1	13	2007-08-24 18:06:13 UTC
46,302	46,024	zcoelius	What should a striving non-programmer do?	xzibitendo	read this: http://www.blogmaverick.com/2004/04/23/success-and-motivatio...	I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.	17	23	2007-08-24 18:20:58 UTC
46,305	46,240	ragaskar	37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!)	nickb	my current company still finds basecamp a valuable tool, but that's because we're not large enough to have someone doing fulltime project management. Of course, we don't need anything beyond a glorified to-do list -- which is good, because that's pretty much basecamp's core competency.	null	1	19	2007-08-24 18:30:46 UTC
46,306	46,024	vegashacker	What should a striving non-programmer do?	xzibitendo	We are working on an easy-to-use web app creation tool, and we're looking for real use cases to test out our system. Drop me an email, if you want to chat. If an idea of yours is a match for what we do, we may just implement a prototype for you.	I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.	15	23	2007-08-24 18:31:16 UTC
46,313	46,193	nickb	jQuery 1.1.4 Released with Impressive Speed Improvements	nickb	Anyone know of any jQuery v. Prototype comparisons?	null	0	7	2007-08-24 18:38:23 UTC
46,314	46,224	piers	Pingdom offer free subscription and then lose their site	piers	I did too. Maybe it'll all be better after the 24hrs is up.	I would have posted the url above but there's no point. Pingdom (www.pingdom.com) started an offer that if you registered whilst using Firefox then you would get a year's free subscription. Unfortunately it seems that this was a very attractive offer and now their site has gone down. Oops.	2	1	2007-08-24 18:40:45 UTC
46,316	46,312	prakash	Russell Beattie: Java Needs an Overhaul	toffer	didn't know he started blogging again. cool.	null	1	4	2007-08-24 18:43:55 UTC
46,318	46,170	zach	Fuel for thought	kkim	Wow, over 400 applications to yield 20 admissions. That's more selective than Harvard or MIT, who each admit ~10% of applications.	null	1	8	2007-08-24 18:47:13 UTC
46,322	46,240	brianmckenzie	37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!)	nickb	I'm still using Basecamp for some stuff, it's pretty good for distributed teams. I tried Backpack, though, and it has seemed to actually make my life more difficult.	null	2	19	2007-08-24 18:51:27 UTC
46,327	46,324	run4yourlives	IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer	cglynch	It's CIO magazine. Anything IBM says is gold, since most CIO's, and the companies they work for don't realize that they haven't been invited to this party.	With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.	0	13	2007-08-24 19:19:17 UTC
46,329	46,268	byrneseyeview	iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity	nostrademons	Is this going to be like Bootcamp? In that case, Apple waited to release their own tool so they'd get two Intel Mac news cycles instead of one.	null	3	36	2007-08-24 19:22:58 UTC
46,333	46,213	amix	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	The idea is great, the execution (and design) is currently really bad. If I was you I would concentrate on making things more "simple" (or hidden). Maybe make a front page that explains the idea and does not present so much "raw" data.	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	5	17	2007-08-24 19:30:10 UTC
46,335	46,213	r7000	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	I wonder if the image modding system, particularly with the way it is worded, will encourage people to try and shock the modders. Maybe you'll do a flickr-like transition and in a month you'll be wh0cangr0ssme0ut.com	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	6	17	2007-08-24 19:32:22 UTC
46,343	46,312	acgourley	Russell Beattie: Java Needs an Overhaul	toffer	He makes some good points, but he's calling for higher level functionality AS WELL AS less code bloat. Those two solutions can't come to java at the same time.	null	0	4	2007-08-24 19:45:41 UTC
46,346	46,170	portLAN	Fuel for thought	kkim	"Or maybe we're hairball paste you feed a cat so a hairball won't get stuck. They're cats and the hairballs are all the little problems that crop up. But you've got to lick yourself anyway, right? Just don't choke. Programmers are a lot like cats, actually. We're like magical cat-herding Unicorns."	null	0	8	2007-08-24 19:50:33 UTC
46,350	46,303	adamdoupe	Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)	mikesabat	I'd change the title to "Adam Scott:" because the way it looks like it should be a Dilbert cartoon.	null	3	24	2007-08-24 20:02:34 UTC
46,354	46,024	webwright	What should a striving non-programmer do?	xzibitendo	Out of curiosity, what do you consider your strengths (aside from ideas)? Design? Marketing? Accounting? Writing? All of these things have a place in a software startup. If you're good at all of them, you're golden (because most hackers decidedly aren't).But, at the end of the day, the most expensive and time-consuming thing that software startups need from the outset is software development. Other than design, there's not a lot of need for other skills before you manage to create a product that people want to have.But I'd echo the sentiment mentioned elsewhere. Dabble in programming and see if you're enjoy it. If you don't, focus on your strengths.	I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.	8	23	2007-08-24 20:09:57 UTC
46,355	46,213	palish	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	I'd really, really appreciate it if you all could list the things you hate (or like) about the site. Anything you'd like changed can be changed. We take your feedback seriously.How can we make this thing useful for you, specifically? Whomever is reading this, right now. Post something you would find useful, no matter how outlandish it is. We're two people with time and hacking experience and we can make anything you want work, and we'd be really indebted to you for making demands. How would you want Chain to look if it were your own project?Is there anything you saw that made you think "Hey, that's neat"? We'll accentuate it. Something that frustrated you? Removed. Something missing? Added. Thank you so much.	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	2	17	2007-08-24 20:10:44 UTC
46,357	46,324	ph0rque	IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer	cglynch	If this is true, then all IBM needs to do is buy more web2.0 websites.	With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.	5	13	2007-08-24 20:15:03 UTC
46,358	46,324	dpapathanasiou	IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer	cglynch	It's just marketing by F.U.D. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt).If you ever try selling to a corporation (especially as a startup), you'll come across it all the time.	With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.	2	13	2007-08-24 20:21:57 UTC
46,368	46,367	palish	Neverending Story	palish	This seemed fun, so here we are! Each item you see represents a story beginning (from http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:lzbH4IRHqUIJ:www.readwr...). Click on one and leave a reply to add to the story. You can branch off at any time, and others can upvote your additions. More popular ones will appear above others.I fully expect this to turn into one big ragefest, but it'll be interesting to see the results anyway, and it seemed like a neat hack. For some reason, I can't add initial text to submissions, so I'm posting this as a comment :)So be silly and post whatever you'd like, and your peers will rate you. Feel free to contribute your own story beginnings, too!	This seemed fun, so here we are! Each item you see represents a story beginning (from http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:lzbH4IRHqUIJ:www.readwr...). Click on one and leave a reply to add to the story. You can branch off at any time, and others can upvote your additions.I fully expect this to turn into one big ragefest, but it'll be interesting to see the results anyway, and it seemed like a neat hack. Probably NSFW eventually.	0	4	2007-08-24 20:36:57 UTC
46,371	46,179	daniel-cussen	Sex, shopping and thinking pink (Men's and women's brains are different)	charzom	So male-oriend websites should be blue to help the 10% that is colorblind, and female websites should be pink to attract women. I guess mothers are fundamentally right when they dress up baby boys in blue and baby girls in pink.	null	0	7	2007-08-24 20:38:21 UTC
46,374	46,024	wschroter	What should a striving non-programmer do?	xzibitendo	I think learning code (even HTML and basic queries) is helpful. While I don't code per se, I'm familiar with what code can and can't do, and it's been invaluable in growing many companies.Keep in mind the advice you're getting here is relatively slanted toward programmer-centric minds.Try posting it on LinkedIN answers and see how your responses vary.	I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.	10	23	2007-08-24 20:45:08 UTC
46,377	46,324	pg	IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer	cglynch	"Designing security in" is not enough to guarantee security. You also need to have good programmers. I wouldn't be surprised if the average web 2.0 app had better security than IBM's enterprise imitations thereof, simply because the guys writing it were so much smarter.	With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.	1	13	2007-08-24 20:51:51 UTC
46,379	46,268	JMiao	iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity	nostrademons	Isn't AT&T the only carrier with the necessary infrastructure to support some of the cooler phone features like visual voicemail, etc.?	null	5	36	2007-08-24 20:54:40 UTC
46,381	41,685	tzury	Where is your startup? (for me Atlanta)	rokhayakebe	Tel Aviv, Israel	null	40	21	2007-08-24 20:56:08 UTC
46,382	46,303	donna	Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)	mikesabat	seems hindsight enables us to judge 'what a moron' --however we are all willing to take the chance of being "the one that will be the 10% IT'	null	4	24	2007-08-24 20:58:50 UTC
46,383	46,378	run4yourlives	Poll: Are you a suit or geek? ( I am not a geek )	rokhayakebe	I'm a geeky suit. I'd imagine pretty much everyone here is either that, or a suity geek.	The latest poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685 showed some interesting results regarding startup location. Now it would be nice to know what is the difference in percentage between the numbers of suits and geeks contributing to N.YC.	1	3	2007-08-24 21:03:42 UTC
46,384	46,303	pg	Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)	mikesabat	What they should have done was get posters from Demotivators and see if the PHB noticed.http://www.demotivators.com/viewall.html	null	0	24	2007-08-24 21:05:38 UTC
46,385	46,378	german	Poll: Are you a suit or geek? ( I am not a geek )	rokhayakebe	I'm a t-shirt and jeans geek,but I wear suits on weddings ;)	The latest poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685 showed some interesting results regarding startup location. Now it would be nice to know what is the difference in percentage between the numbers of suits and geeks contributing to N.YC.	4	3	2007-08-24 21:05:49 UTC
46,388	41,685	Ryan_Brooks	Where is your startup? (for me Atlanta)	rokhayakebe	Calgary, Alberta, Canada.	null	32	21	2007-08-24 21:08:10 UTC
46,392	46,303	garbowza	Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)	mikesabat	I'm not sure I agree with him classifying those people who take a risk, but ultimately fail, as "morons." Although he also classifies those who don't take a risk (i.e. work at corporate jobs) as morons as well. I guess smart people are the ones who somehow succeed without ever first failing?	null	2	24	2007-08-24 21:15:27 UTC
46,394	46,268	nickb	iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity	nostrademons	What about visual voicemail and push email? You can't legally clone those without Apple/AT&T blessing. Also, you are limited by the carrier signal since iPhone only works with the EDGE/GPRS.	null	2	36	2007-08-24 21:21:56 UTC
46,402	45,698	nogarfunkel	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	I think you're right, except when it comes to what you say about brevity.I don't think it's important for a program to have a small text-footprint in order for it to be easily loaded into your brain. Why? Because it's the CONCEPTS behind the application code we're loading into our heads. It's not the text itself. So... if I have a program where I've formulated a class tree, it doesn't matter to the ease with which I can grasp the program whether the classes are formulated in Python, C#, C++ or Pascal. It's the concept of the class tree which we load into our head. Not the code itself.So, on that point you're actually wrong. Brevity isn't important. That said, a lot of your other points actually DO make sense.	null	34	142	2007-08-24 21:40:30 UTC
46,403	45,698	MikeGale	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	I'm pretty sure that a lot of programmers, engineers and designers of many things get the message. A lot of them will understand the issue along additional axes too.The problem is the people who impact problems and haven't got a clue. There seem to be a lot of them and they are dragging mankind backwards, slowing and even reversing progress. These are the turkeys who blame programmers for a majority failure rate of projects.It's important to deturkify these guys. What can you do to help that happen?	null	48	142	2007-08-24 21:42:24 UTC
46,405	46,281	bmaier	Applying Principles of Entrepreneurship to Your Life	entrepreneur	I don't mean to be a downer, but how many times can these principles be re-worded and written about by different people?	null	0	2	2007-08-24 21:50:02 UTC
46,407	45,698	mayson	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	One useful technique for design/debugging is to read through the code, and explain it, to somebody else. (Whether or not they're actually there is often surprisingly immaterial)	null	50	142	2007-08-24 21:53:50 UTC
46,409	46,039	zeantsoi	PG's Rarely Asked Questions (never seen this one before)	vlad	ugh. gut-wrenchingly eurocentric.	null	4	18	2007-08-24 21:55:50 UTC
46,410	46,400	german	You Didn't Blow the Interview, Your College Facebook Profile Kept You From Getting the Job	nickb	I've read the article and I really think, that's stupid to check the candidates social network profiles.Whats the matter if someone drinks beer with friends, or likes any kind of music? If someone hires you or not because of your social network profile, then that person has no sense of business.If someone think that is important to have a nice-safe profile, maybe we should all suit up, and start taking pictures of us reading some really hard books, or using the product of the hiring company.Or even better, we can wear a t-shirt with the company logo! Maybe the Y Combinator logo in your profile?	null	0	4	2007-08-24 21:59:20 UTC
46,413	46,125	chmac	Pingdom: Offering 1 year free service	terpua	AWESOME DUDEThank you for posting that link, that's sweet. Seriously, you've made my week. I've just signed up with Pingability.com because they offer a (basic) test for free if you post a link to them on your homepage.This service is MUCH better, and it's free because I use Firefox. Gotta love open source! :)Thanks again terpua.	null	0	3	2007-08-24 22:13:46 UTC
46,414	46,152	bmaier	Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email	farmer	Personally, I don't think anything will truly replace email (at least not for many many years). Twitter is a nice fringe communication tool but simply that. Hopefully what Twitter and the new communication apps will contribute to is a reduction in the number of pointless short emails I get. Perhaps the article should be titled, Twitter is the new IM.	null	1	10	2007-08-24 22:17:42 UTC
46,416	46,114	chmac	Linux user told he must use windows	piers	That's pretty crazy, but as one of the commenters said, he is a convicted criminal, that has repercussions. Could be a great opportunity for RedHat or Suse to sue the government on the basis of unfair competition though... :)	null	0	2	2007-08-24 22:33:50 UTC
46,418	46,400	chmac	You Didn't Blow the Interview, Your College Facebook Profile Kept You From Getting the Job	nickb	This only applies if you leave your profile public to anyone. Otherwise, they'd have to friend request you first!It's the same as publishing anything publicly, people can run background checks on you and find it. That's life.As an employer, I'd be suspicious if somebody's online profile presented a completely different (beer swilling, rock partying) image than their resume. You can't be two people after all.	null	1	4	2007-08-24 22:38:33 UTC
46,420	45,698	vicaya	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	agree with most parts except for the use of perforce. most good programmers i know hate it, because it slows you down (as does subversion). git is the scm/vcs to use for doing feature experiments.	null	70	142	2007-08-24 22:42:14 UTC
46,422	46,404	chmac	Ajax Solitaire	nickb	That is FANTASTIC. I've officially just wasted 20 minutes of my life. I'm definitely going to twitter that site... :)	null	0	2	2007-08-24 22:48:23 UTC
46,424	46,268	rokhayakebe	iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity	nostrademons	Phone manufacturers and wireless providers still do not get it. Real coders will do anything in their collective power to provide users with what they are being robbed off everyday. Instead of investing in locking software, they should be open from the start.	null	6	36	2007-08-24 22:57:59 UTC
46,432	46,007	SwellJoe	Is anyone making something women want?	aswanson	Most of my other ideas (other than my current Virtualmin, Inc. business) were targeted to women. One a sort of niche-focused social network, one a video/photo dating site, and one a porn site (oh, wait...that one would have mainly attracted men, I guess...but everybody in the valley has a backup pr0n plan...it's what you talk about after a couple of beers..almost nobody is really serious about it, me included).	Not being sexist, but they seem to -want- more than us, and walking into any shopping area seems to confirm that vendors know this. My problem is that from a tech standpoint, it's hard to gauge what a viable need for them is.	2	17	2007-08-24 23:11:13 UTC
46,433	46,431	euccastro	Escher's Relativity in Lego.	euccastro	Unlike many of Escher's other "impossible" pictures (like "Ascending and Descending") , there is actually no optical illusion involved here. Gravity seems to be working in three different directions simultaneously, but the picture shows a perfectly self-consistent physical scene.	null	0	1	2007-08-24 23:12:31 UTC
46,434	46,320	brett	Subprime Fallout Could Help Venture Capitalists	brett	Damn you NY Times for your non unique urls!	null	0	1	2007-08-24 23:17:53 UTC
46,439	45,698	rml	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	Point #3 ('Use succinct languages') deserves special mention. I've noticed time and again that writing small helper functions (especially new predicates) at my Scheme REPL leads to being able to express the problem at hand with ever more clarity. Also, a REPL with the ability to dynamically reload code is an invaluable weapon...	null	33	142	2007-08-24 23:31:59 UTC
46,441	45,698	MadCoder	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	Directly from IM in response to an interruption from my boss about an error message:"I suspect there is an issue with the actual input from the database. (Note: we're working with a test database that's sketchy in spots) What do you want me to work on? Do you want me to spend the time tracking down that error or do you want me to work on "X" (that should have been done three weeks previous)? Because I was thinking about "X" and my entire train of thought is derailed and now I'm trying to work on "X" and wondering what is wrong with that particular chunk of data."I suppose for the non-programmer it sounds like I'm just being nasty over nothing, but that little panic attack over a minor error message cost me HOURS in trying to get back to the original program in my head so I could finish it. In fact, I actually had to go and FIX the error to get it the hell out so I could fully focus on what I needed to be doing.Once I got there, around 1am, the code flowed like water and it's done save for minor debugging. I was in the zone enough that if my eyes hadn't been closing by themselves, I'dve finished that, too.Management, I think, has a double edged sword to deal with. My immediate boss wants to let me do what I do because I am lucky enough to have the ability to put someone else's code in my head in the same way described in this blog entry. It means that I can go in and fix it and if there's a bug I know why it's doing it and I know just where to push on it and where it needs shoring up--in short, after a while, it's like I wrote it myself.But he's also dealing with HIS boss, who is dealing with the bottom line, and his boss would probably have apoplexy if he saw me playing spider solitaire as I let the problem I'm addressing work itself into my brain, and would have NO idea what I was talking about if I said I needed to get the application "into my head".Wonderful blog entry.	null	13	142	2007-08-24 23:43:12 UTC
46,445	45,698	thingsilearned	Holding a program in one's head	eposts	Great article. I seem to have no problem getting a program into my head, its getting it out that's the tough part. Its amazing how many times I've had to go somewhere else after work but end up driving the regular route home and get out of the car wondering how it was I got there. Scary.	null	56	142	2007-08-25 00:14:13 UTC
46,456	46,136	dfranke	Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -> JAVA	davidw	I'm surprised that the NASDAQ even allows this.	null	5	19	2007-08-25 00:51:18 UTC
46,459	46,454	pg	15 startups that want your lunch	rokhayakebe	Ack, another slideshow. Can't they just list them on a single page?	null	1	5	2007-08-25 00:56:10 UTC
46,465	46,378	ph0rque	Poll: Are you a suit or geek? ( I am not a geek )	rokhayakebe	I'm a geek, but I actually like wearing suits when it's cool outside. However, I don't have the money for nice ones.	The latest poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685 showed some interesting results regarding startup location. Now it would be nice to know what is the difference in percentage between the numbers of suits and geeks contributing to N.YC.	3	3	2007-08-25 01:28:22 UTC
46,467	46,152	nickb	Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email	farmer	Nonsense!	null	4	10	2007-08-25 01:31:14 UTC
46,476	46,179	portLAN	Sex, shopping and thinking pink (Men's and women's brains are different)	charzom	No, they aren't.	null	2	7	2007-08-25 01:58:14 UTC
46,477	46,474	donna	Cool meet for lunch networking site	tocomment	love the concept, wanted it to give me names of restaurants within the circle.	null	0	4	2007-08-25 02:06:01 UTC
46,478	46,213	palish	Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day	palish	It's quite nice finally being off work to really sit down and hammer out the rough edges. Check back tomorrow guys, many new features coming.	Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)	11	17	2007-08-25 02:16:35 UTC
46,481	46,268	bgold	iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity	nostrademons	I wonder if Apple will sue. A new exception was added to the DMCA last year specifically to address things like this:"Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network."So it looks like this new law specifically allows you to hack your phone if all you want to do is unlock it. I'm actually kind of hoping that Apple sues the guys who did the unlocking, just to set a precedent when Apple loses.	null	0	36	2007-08-25 02:39:42 UTC
46,482	46,303	mhb	Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)	mikesabat	He seems a little confused about whether the benefit of capitalism is that the fittest survive so that the failure of the unfit benefits the entire system or whether employing people to pursue ideas which fail is good in itself since it stimulates the economy. The latter would be an example of Bastiat's "broken window fallacy" (http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html).	null	1	24	2007-08-25 02:41:53 UTC
46,487	46,152	Alex3917	Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email	farmer	Anecdotally, Scoble once linked to a blog post of mine in his twitter linkblog and I think I got only two or three clickthroughs from it. So even though he may have 4000 users, measuring the value of a twitter follower is very different from measuring the value of a pageview. What exactly does it mean for one person to have more digital presence than another? What exactly is that worth? It seems like it will take a few years for these questions to get fully worked out.	null	3	10	2007-08-25 02:49:54 UTC
46,488	46,480	donna	Why Can't We Compute in the Cloud? Part 2	bootload	That will be an Apple product, MacBook mini. It's already rumored -- Flash memory, no hard drive, least possible size and weight. :)or maybe the Radio Shack Model 100 will come back: http://flickr.com/photos/jowo/11052651/	null	0	4	2007-08-25 02:51:25 UTC
46,492	46,152	henning	Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email	farmer	god i'm fucking sick of people who claim they have a crystal ball, especially when they don't write code.no file extensions, no privacy/crypto, no room to actually develop an idea, doesn't plug and play with other services (web apps like highrise, scripts that process mbox files, cellphones, ...). yeah, it's an email killer alright. especially when you go to send a message and you're greeted by a LOLcat that says you can't do what you want to do because they're dumbasses who don't know how to make a rapidly growing service scale.	null	0	10	2007-08-25 03:00:41 UTC
46,494	46,007	bootload	Is anyone making something women want?	aswanson	"... My problem is that from a tech standpoint, it's hard to gauge what a viable need for them is ..."something like "all consuming" perhaps? ~ http://www.allconsuming.net	Not being sexist, but they seem to -want- more than us, and walking into any shopping area seems to confirm that vendors know this. My problem is that from a tech standpoint, it's hard to gauge what a viable need for them is.	8	17	2007-08-25 03:04:55 UTC
46,496	46,378	randallsquared	Poll: Are you a suit or geek? ( I am not a geek )	rokhayakebe	Geek, usually in jeans and a t-shirt. More to the point, I'm asocial enough that it's going to be a challenge to do any face-to-face communication I need to do to make my startup work. We'll see how that works out. :)	The latest poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685 showed some interesting results regarding startup location. Now it would be nice to know what is the difference in percentage between the numbers of suits and geeks contributing to N.YC.	0	3	2007-08-25 03:08:00 UTC
46,500	46,136	mpc	Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -> JAVA	davidw	This is hilarious. Sun is the only company that hasn't figured out a way to make money off Java...this won't work either.	null	3	19	2007-08-25 03:26:25 UTC
46,502	46,193	jamongkad	jQuery 1.1.4 Released with Impressive Speed Improvements	nickb	Nice always been a faithful follower of Jquery.	null	1	7	2007-08-25 03:28:26 UTC
46,509	46,008	inklesspen	The most bizarre episode in the history of the papacy	rms	And this is hacker news why?	null	0	6	2007-08-25 04:28:19 UTC
46,512	46,364	euccastro	Charming Python #13 Functional Programming in Python (part 1)	tzury	Don't try the functional while block at home: Python doesn't handle tail calls efficiently, so you'll take up O(number of iterations) memory, and you'll exceed the allowed maximum recursion in long loops.	null	0	3	2007-08-25 04:46:49 UTC
46,513	46,024	bmaier	What should a striving non-programmer do?	xzibitendo	Now taking this question from a different angle... Suppose the striving programmer has chosen to start learning python. What steps would you take to start (are there any one click installers like there are for ruby? other things? tips for beginners). If you were doing it again, what would you keep in mind?	I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.	14	23	2007-08-25 04:54:24 UTC

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One of the best articles I've ever read on the DNA of successful technologies, ideas and companies. Any involved in a technology company should read, including friends and family. A possible reason some larger companies are finding it hard to compete.

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Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

brett

I like it. One nitpick is that when you go to the login page the cursor does not default to the login field. This is kind of expected behavior.Anyway, pretty useful little app. Thanks!Edit: Feature added, rock on.

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PG's Rarely Asked Questions (never seen this one before)

vlad

For a good Philosophy book, Be Here Now by Baba Ram Dass

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Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -> JAVA

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Next up: AAPL changes their ticker symbol to IPOD.

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Mark Cuban: The internet is 'dead and boring'

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I thought Mark Cuban was an idiot long before this.

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Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.When you add a link in your chain, it's automatically submitted to a centralized place where others accomplishing the same goal will upvote you and cheer you on.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :) I posted that here because I can't seem to edit the initial text.. But have fun!

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)

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"I'll eat my hat if that isn't Einstein" (Einstein as seen by another scientist, Norbert Wiener)

hhm

'Renewed war in Europe, he predicted, would pass the "leadership of civilization...to America and ultimately to Asia ."'That is an astoundingly accurate prediction for 1925.

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WOW what great insite. I have been telling my boss that I work much better at home with less distractions. Now you have pointed out why that is true. My boss is really against telecomuting. I am going to she them this article.

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Rise of the wikicrats

davidw

What will the next generation of social content look like then? Personally, I think the next "big thing" will be trust metrics. Wikipedia's challenges could be solved by a trust matrix.If users were given trust values (think eBay feedback, but a bit smarter) and then users could in turn rate articles, that would at least partially solve some of Wikipedia's biggest criticisms (the content is unchecked and liable to spam / abuse).Trust networks like that scale exponentially with the number of nodes (users and articles) so I suppose it would significantly increase the resources required to host something like Wikipedia.

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Remember that Lifehacker post about Seinfeld's productivity secret? I made a small site based on it.

brett

how about allowing me to track more than one project (i.e chain). Nice work.

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Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

Cool! Keep it up!

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Rise of the wikicrats

davidw

Someone could do us all a service by presenting a talk called "A Practical Guide To Avoiding Internet Drama on Your Service" and offering advice on structuring discussion, interaction and administration to avoid problems like this.My #1 suggestion: if you must have an "off-topic" forum, make sure it's clear that it's not the "no rules" forum.

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Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

Just wondering: Did you actually do the paperwork and start a company called "Chain Enterprises"?

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)

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Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

You're taking that Seinfeld slogan way too seriously.If you're stuck for a project idea, why not go on a few dates with the opposite sex (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129)?

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)

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Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

I'm recommending the f* chain to my girlfriend right now!I've been trying to find a way to show her that we've been slipping:)

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)

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What should a striving non-programmer do?

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Find a co-contributor. Carigslist etc. Put out an ad on the gigs forum. As a dev coming at it from the other angle. I have the skills but not many business ideas. But I also have clear ideas what I'm willing to work on.If it's just a copy of something existing then don't expect many replies. But an exciting new idea would have many responses.

I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.

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Philip Greenspun: Improving Undergraduate Computer Science Education

adamdoupe

Excellent advice. This was particularly good: "Everything that is part of a bachelor's in CS can be taught as part of a project that has all phases of the engineering cycle, e.g., teach physics and calculus by assigning students to build a flight simulator"

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Pingdom offer free subscription and then lose their site

piers

I actually signed up - so hopefully they are not down for long....

I would have posted the url above but there's no point. Pingdom (www.pingdom.com) started an offer that if you registered whilst using Firefox then you would get a year's free subscription. Unfortunately it seems that this was a very attractive offer and now their site has gone down. Oops.

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Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

the + looks like a +/- signI keep on reading "plus or minus 2 people will exercise"good work! nice layout ;-)

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37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!)

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YC tried highrise. It is not good. I actually went to the trouble of telling Fried what seemed broken about it, and got back a reply saying everybody else loved it, so I must be wrong.

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MySpace on Facebook

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really interesting that facebook supports a myspace network on their site...

Corportate espionage or admission of a better platform? 185 Myspacer employees use facebook...probably over 60% of their employees...

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Next: Linux on the IPhone please. Are there any Linux phones besides OpenMoko yet?

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Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

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It's cool but I don't get how the chain-linked fence image works.Also, how different from 43things.com is this? Why would a 43things.com user want to switch to cha1n.com?

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37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!)

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You can't be the flavour-of-the-month every month. The article seems a bit like hastily written link spam.

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Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

So, it looks like a lot of our peers are sexually frustrated.

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Great points. They make me ask what PG thinks about unit tests: they seem to be like an exoskeleton allowing you to keep just a part of the program in your head. Or are they just a distraction?

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Great essay Paul. Some echoes of your Lisp book and Code Complete!The only downside to working on your own is that you don't see the bugs that you create through not seeing the problem? Others seem to see what you don't? That solo work needs tempering with some level of review. I chuckled over the effort spent on 'homers', work done (perhaps even for the company) in a persons own time. Boy does that work get some deep concentration and produce some good results!Thanks Paul. DaveP

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jQuery 1.1.4 Released with Impressive Speed Improvements

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2007-08-24 17:59:42 UTC

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zcoelius

What should a striving non-programmer do?

xzibitendo

I have to disagree with all the hackers in this discussion. Code is super important, but a startup is still a business. Business is a team sport that requires many different talents. If you can't code move out to San Francisco or someplace where startup congregate and find a startup that needs your talents whatever they may be. Learn the ropes and meet people. Repeat. Thats what I did. There are lots of non-technical people who have done well this way. Read Mark Cuban's posts on motivations. He was non-technical and kicked ass.I moved out to SF as a non-technical biz guy two years ago and now I run a VC backed startup. It can be done.

I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.

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2007-08-24 18:02:59 UTC

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inklesspen

c10k: Handling 10 thousand symultaneous connections.

euccastro

YAWS: http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.htmlHandles 90,000 connections on a box where Apache dies at 4,000.I didn't see Erlang in that article. I wonder why.

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2007-08-24 18:06:13 UTC

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zcoelius

What should a striving non-programmer do?

xzibitendo

read this: http://www.blogmaverick.com/2004/04/23/success-and-motivatio...

I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.

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2007-08-24 18:20:58 UTC

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ragaskar

37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!)

nickb

my current company still finds basecamp a valuable tool, but that's because we're not large enough to have someone doing fulltime project management. Of course, we don't need anything beyond a glorified to-do list -- which is good, because that's pretty much basecamp's core competency.

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2007-08-24 18:30:46 UTC

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vegashacker

What should a striving non-programmer do?

xzibitendo

We are working on an easy-to-use web app creation tool, and we're looking for real use cases to test out our system. Drop me an email, if you want to chat. If an idea of yours is a match for what we do, we may just implement a prototype for you.

I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.

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2007-08-24 18:31:16 UTC

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nickb

jQuery 1.1.4 Released with Impressive Speed Improvements

nickb

Anyone know of any jQuery v. Prototype comparisons?

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2007-08-24 18:38:23 UTC

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piers

Pingdom offer free subscription and then lose their site

piers

I did too. Maybe it'll all be better after the 24hrs is up.

I would have posted the url above but there's no point. Pingdom (www.pingdom.com) started an offer that if you registered whilst using Firefox then you would get a year's free subscription. Unfortunately it seems that this was a very attractive offer and now their site has gone down. Oops.

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2007-08-24 18:40:45 UTC

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prakash

Russell Beattie: Java Needs an Overhaul

toffer

didn't know he started blogging again. cool.

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2007-08-24 18:43:55 UTC

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zach

Fuel for thought

kkim

Wow, over 400 applications to yield 20 admissions. That's more selective than Harvard or MIT, who each admit ~10% of applications.

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2007-08-24 18:47:13 UTC

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brianmckenzie

37signals Losing Lustre? Why I Miss The Adoring Fans (simpler is better?!)

nickb

I'm still using Basecamp for some stuff, it's pretty good for distributed teams. I tried Backpack, though, and it has seemed to actually make my life more difficult.

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2007-08-24 18:51:27 UTC

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run4yourlives

IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer

cglynch

It's CIO magazine. Anything IBM says is gold, since most CIO's, and the companies they work for don't realize that they haven't been invited to this party.

With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.

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2007-08-24 19:19:17 UTC

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byrneseyeview

iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

nostrademons

Is this going to be like Bootcamp? In that case, Apple waited to release their own tool so they'd get two Intel Mac news cycles instead of one.

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2007-08-24 19:22:58 UTC

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amix

Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

The idea is great, the execution (and design) is currently really bad. If I was you I would concentrate on making things more "simple" (or hidden). Maybe make a front page that explains the idea and does not present so much "raw" data.

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)

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2007-08-24 19:30:10 UTC

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r7000

Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

I wonder if the image modding system, particularly with the way it is worded, will encourage people to try and shock the modders. Maybe you'll do a flickr-like transition and in a month you'll be wh0cangr0ssme0ut.com

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)

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2007-08-24 19:32:22 UTC

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acgourley

Russell Beattie: Java Needs an Overhaul

toffer

He makes some good points, but he's calling for higher level functionality AS WELL AS less code bloat. Those two solutions can't come to java at the same time.

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2007-08-24 19:45:41 UTC

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portLAN

Fuel for thought

kkim

"Or maybe we're hairball paste you feed a cat so a hairball won't get stuck. They're cats and the hairballs are all the little problems that crop up. But you've got to lick yourself anyway, right? Just don't choke. Programmers are a lot like cats, actually. We're like magical cat-herding Unicorns."

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2007-08-24 19:50:33 UTC

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adamdoupe

Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)

mikesabat

I'd change the title to "Adam Scott:" because the way it looks like it should be a Dilbert cartoon.

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2007-08-24 20:02:34 UTC

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webwright

What should a striving non-programmer do?

xzibitendo

Out of curiosity, what do you consider your strengths (aside from ideas)? Design? Marketing? Accounting? Writing? All of these things have a place in a software startup. If you're good at all of them, you're golden (because most hackers decidedly aren't).But, at the end of the day, the most expensive and time-consuming thing that software startups need from the outset is software development. Other than design, there's not a lot of need for other skills before you manage to create a product that people want to have.But I'd echo the sentiment mentioned elsewhere. Dabble in programming and see if you're enjoy it. If you don't, focus on your strengths.

I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.

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2007-08-24 20:09:57 UTC

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palish

Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

I'd really, really appreciate it if you all could list the things you hate (or like) about the site. Anything you'd like changed can be changed. We take your feedback seriously.How can we make this thing useful for you, specifically? Whomever is reading this, right now. Post something you would find useful, no matter how outlandish it is. We're two people with time and hacking experience and we can make anything you want work, and we'd be really indebted to you for making demands. How would you want Chain to look if it were your own project?Is there anything you saw that made you think "Hey, that's neat"? We'll accentuate it. Something that frustrated you? Removed. Something missing? Added. Thank you so much.

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)

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2007-08-24 20:10:44 UTC

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ph0rque

IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer

cglynch

If this is true, then all IBM needs to do is buy more web2.0 websites.

With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.

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2007-08-24 20:15:03 UTC

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dpapathanasiou

IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer

cglynch

It's just marketing by F.U.D. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear%2C_uncertainty_and_doubt).If you ever try selling to a corporation (especially as a startup), you'll come across it all the time.

With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.

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2007-08-24 20:21:57 UTC

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palish

Neverending Story

palish

This seemed fun, so here we are! Each item you see represents a story beginning (from http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:lzbH4IRHqUIJ:www.readwr...). Click on one and leave a reply to add to the story. You can branch off at any time, and others can upvote your additions. More popular ones will appear above others.I fully expect this to turn into one big ragefest, but it'll be interesting to see the results anyway, and it seemed like a neat hack. For some reason, I can't add initial text to submissions, so I'm posting this as a comment :)So be silly and post whatever you'd like, and your peers will rate you. Feel free to contribute your own story beginnings, too!

This seemed fun, so here we are! Each item you see represents a story beginning (from http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:lzbH4IRHqUIJ:www.readwr...). Click on one and leave a reply to add to the story. You can branch off at any time, and others can upvote your additions.I fully expect this to turn into one big ragefest, but it'll be interesting to see the results anyway, and it seemed like a neat hack. Probably NSFW eventually.

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2007-08-24 20:36:57 UTC

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daniel-cussen

Sex, shopping and thinking pink (Men's and women's brains are different)

charzom

So male-oriend websites should be blue to help the 10% that is colorblind, and female websites should be pink to attract women. I guess mothers are fundamentally right when they dress up baby boys in blue and baby girls in pink.

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2007-08-24 20:38:21 UTC

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wschroter

What should a striving non-programmer do?

xzibitendo

I think learning code (even HTML and basic queries) is helpful. While I don't code per se, I'm familiar with what code can and can't do, and it's been invaluable in growing many companies.Keep in mind the advice you're getting here is relatively slanted toward programmer-centric minds.Try posting it on LinkedIN answers and see how your responses vary.

I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.

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2007-08-24 20:45:08 UTC

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pg

IBM's response to Web 2.0 start-ups: We're Safer

cglynch

"Designing security in" is not enough to guarantee security. You also need to have good programmers. I wouldn't be surprised if the average web 2.0 app had better security than IBM's enterprise imitations thereof, simply because the guys writing it were so much smarter.

With innovative web-based start-ups changing the business model for how software is delivered, IBM tries to play its cards by playing up its emphasis on security.

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2007-08-24 20:51:51 UTC

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JMiao

iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

nostrademons

Isn't AT&T the only carrier with the necessary infrastructure to support some of the cooler phone features like visual voicemail, etc.?

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2007-08-24 20:54:40 UTC

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tzury

Where is your startup? (for me Atlanta)

rokhayakebe

Tel Aviv, Israel

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2007-08-24 20:56:08 UTC

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donna

Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)

mikesabat

seems hindsight enables us to judge 'what a moron' --however we are all willing to take the chance of being "the one that will be the 10% IT'

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2007-08-24 20:58:50 UTC

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run4yourlives

Poll: Are you a suit or geek? ( I am not a geek )

rokhayakebe

I'm a geeky suit. I'd imagine pretty much everyone here is either that, or a suity geek.

The latest poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685 showed some interesting results regarding startup location. Now it would be nice to know what is the difference in percentage between the numbers of suits and geeks contributing to N.YC.

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2007-08-24 21:03:42 UTC

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pg

Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)

mikesabat

What they should have done was get posters from Demotivators and see if the PHB noticed.http://www.demotivators.com/viewall.html

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2007-08-24 21:05:38 UTC

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german

Poll: Are you a suit or geek? ( I am not a geek )

rokhayakebe

I'm a t-shirt and jeans geek,but I wear suits on weddings ;)

The latest poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685 showed some interesting results regarding startup location. Now it would be nice to know what is the difference in percentage between the numbers of suits and geeks contributing to N.YC.

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2007-08-24 21:05:49 UTC

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Ryan_Brooks

Where is your startup? (for me Atlanta)

rokhayakebe

Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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2007-08-24 21:08:10 UTC

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garbowza

Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)

mikesabat

I'm not sure I agree with him classifying those people who take a risk, but ultimately fail, as "morons." Although he also classifies those who don't take a risk (i.e. work at corporate jobs) as morons as well. I guess smart people are the ones who somehow succeed without ever first failing?

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2007-08-24 21:15:27 UTC

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nickb

iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

nostrademons

What about visual voicemail and push email? You can't legally clone those without Apple/AT&T blessing. Also, you are limited by the carrier signal since iPhone only works with the EDGE/GPRS.

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2007-08-24 21:21:56 UTC

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nogarfunkel

Holding a program in one's head

eposts

I think you're right, except when it comes to what you say about brevity.I don't think it's important for a program to have a small text-footprint in order for it to be easily loaded into your brain. Why? Because it's the CONCEPTS behind the application code we're loading into our heads. It's not the text itself. So... if I have a program where I've formulated a class tree, it doesn't matter to the ease with which I can grasp the program whether the classes are formulated in Python, C#, C++ or Pascal. It's the concept of the class tree which we load into our head. Not the code itself.So, on that point you're actually wrong. Brevity isn't important. That said, a lot of your other points actually DO make sense.

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2007-08-24 21:40:30 UTC

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MikeGale

Holding a program in one's head

eposts

I'm pretty sure that a lot of programmers, engineers and designers of many things get the message. A lot of them will understand the issue along additional axes too.The problem is the people who impact problems and haven't got a clue. There seem to be a lot of them and they are dragging mankind backwards, slowing and even reversing progress. These are the turkeys who blame programmers for a majority failure rate of projects.It's important to deturkify these guys. What can you do to help that happen?

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2007-08-24 21:42:24 UTC

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bmaier

Applying Principles of Entrepreneurship to Your Life

entrepreneur

I don't mean to be a downer, but how many times can these principles be re-worded and written about by different people?

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2007-08-24 21:50:02 UTC

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mayson

Holding a program in one's head

eposts

One useful technique for design/debugging is to read through the code, and explain it, to somebody else. (Whether or not they're actually there is often surprisingly immaterial)

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2007-08-24 21:53:50 UTC

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zeantsoi

PG's Rarely Asked Questions (never seen this one before)

vlad

ugh. gut-wrenchingly eurocentric.

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2007-08-24 21:55:50 UTC

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german

You Didn't Blow the Interview, Your College Facebook Profile Kept You From Getting the Job

nickb

I've read the article and I really think, that's stupid to check the candidates social network profiles.Whats the matter if someone drinks beer with friends, or likes any kind of music? If someone hires you or not because of your social network profile, then that person has no sense of business.If someone think that is important to have a nice-safe profile, maybe we should all suit up, and start taking pictures of us reading some really hard books, or using the product of the hiring company.Or even better, we can wear a t-shirt with the company logo! Maybe the Y Combinator logo in your profile?

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2007-08-24 21:59:20 UTC

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chmac

Pingdom: Offering 1 year free service

terpua

AWESOME DUDEThank you for posting that link, that's sweet. Seriously, you've made my week. I've just signed up with Pingability.com because they offer a (basic) test for free if you post a link to them on your homepage.This service is MUCH better, and it's free because I use Firefox. Gotta love open source! :)Thanks again terpua.

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2007-08-24 22:13:46 UTC

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bmaier

Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email

farmer

Personally, I don't think anything will truly replace email (at least not for many many years). Twitter is a nice fringe communication tool but simply that. Hopefully what Twitter and the new communication apps will contribute to is a reduction in the number of pointless short emails I get. Perhaps the article should be titled, Twitter is the new IM.

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2007-08-24 22:17:42 UTC

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chmac

Linux user told he must use windows

piers

That's pretty crazy, but as one of the commenters said, he is a convicted criminal, that has repercussions. Could be a great opportunity for RedHat or Suse to sue the government on the basis of unfair competition though... :)

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2007-08-24 22:33:50 UTC

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chmac

You Didn't Blow the Interview, Your College Facebook Profile Kept You From Getting the Job

nickb

This only applies if you leave your profile public to anyone. Otherwise, they'd have to friend request you first!It's the same as publishing anything publicly, people can run background checks on you and find it. That's life.As an employer, I'd be suspicious if somebody's online profile presented a completely different (beer swilling, rock partying) image than their resume. You can't be two people after all.

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2007-08-24 22:38:33 UTC

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vicaya

Holding a program in one's head

eposts

agree with most parts except for the use of perforce. most good programmers i know hate it, because it slows you down (as does subversion). git is the scm/vcs to use for doing feature experiments.

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2007-08-24 22:42:14 UTC

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chmac

Ajax Solitaire

nickb

That is FANTASTIC. I've officially just wasted 20 minutes of my life. I'm definitely going to twitter that site... :)

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2007-08-24 22:48:23 UTC

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rokhayakebe

iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

nostrademons

Phone manufacturers and wireless providers still do not get it. Real coders will do anything in their collective power to provide users with what they are being robbed off everyday. Instead of investing in locking software, they should be open from the start.

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2007-08-24 22:57:59 UTC

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SwellJoe

Is anyone making something women want?

aswanson

Most of my other ideas (other than my current Virtualmin, Inc. business) were targeted to women. One a sort of niche-focused social network, one a video/photo dating site, and one a porn site (oh, wait...that one would have mainly attracted men, I guess...but everybody in the valley has a backup pr0n plan...it's what you talk about after a couple of beers..almost nobody is really serious about it, me included).

Not being sexist, but they seem to -want- more than us, and walking into any shopping area seems to confirm that vendors know this. My problem is that from a tech standpoint, it's hard to gauge what a viable need for them is.

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2007-08-24 23:11:13 UTC

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euccastro

Escher's Relativity in Lego.

euccastro

Unlike many of Escher's other "impossible" pictures (like "Ascending and Descending") , there is actually no optical illusion involved here. Gravity seems to be working in three different directions simultaneously, but the picture shows a perfectly self-consistent physical scene.

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2007-08-24 23:12:31 UTC

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brett

Subprime Fallout Could Help Venture Capitalists

brett

Damn you NY Times for your non unique urls!

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2007-08-24 23:17:53 UTC

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rml

Holding a program in one's head

eposts

Point #3 ('Use succinct languages') deserves special mention. I've noticed time and again that writing small helper functions (especially new predicates) at my Scheme REPL leads to being able to express the problem at hand with ever more clarity. Also, a REPL with the ability to dynamically reload code is an invaluable weapon...

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2007-08-24 23:31:59 UTC

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MadCoder

Holding a program in one's head

eposts

Directly from IM in response to an interruption from my boss about an error message:"I suspect there is an issue with the actual input from the database. (Note: we're working with a test database that's sketchy in spots) What do you want me to work on? Do you want me to spend the time tracking down that error or do you want me to work on "X" (that should have been done three weeks previous)? Because I was thinking about "X" and my entire train of thought is derailed and now I'm trying to work on "X" and wondering what is wrong with that particular chunk of data."I suppose for the non-programmer it sounds like I'm just being nasty over nothing, but that little panic attack over a minor error message cost me HOURS in trying to get back to the original program in my head so I could finish it. In fact, I actually had to go and FIX the error to get it the hell out so I could fully focus on what I needed to be doing.Once I got there, around 1am, the code flowed like water and it's done save for minor debugging. I was in the zone enough that if my eyes hadn't been closing by themselves, I'dve finished that, too.Management, I think, has a double edged sword to deal with. My immediate boss wants to let me do what I do because I am lucky enough to have the ability to put someone else's code in my head in the same way described in this blog entry. It means that I can go in and fix it and if there's a bug I know why it's doing it and I know just where to push on it and where it needs shoring up--in short, after a while, it's like I wrote it myself.But he's also dealing with HIS boss, who is dealing with the bottom line, and his boss would probably have apoplexy if he saw me playing spider solitaire as I let the problem I'm addressing work itself into my brain, and would have NO idea what I was talking about if I said I needed to get the application "into my head".Wonderful blog entry.

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2007-08-24 23:43:12 UTC

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thingsilearned

Holding a program in one's head

eposts

Great article. I seem to have no problem getting a program into my head, its getting it out that's the tough part. Its amazing how many times I've had to go somewhere else after work but end up driving the regular route home and get out of the car wondering how it was I got there. Scary.

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2007-08-25 00:14:13 UTC

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dfranke

Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -> JAVA

davidw

I'm surprised that the NASDAQ even allows this.

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2007-08-25 00:51:18 UTC

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pg

15 startups that want your lunch

rokhayakebe

Ack, another slideshow. Can't they just list them on a single page?

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5

2007-08-25 00:56:10 UTC

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ph0rque

Poll: Are you a suit or geek? ( I am not a geek )

rokhayakebe

I'm a geek, but I actually like wearing suits when it's cool outside. However, I don't have the money for nice ones.

The latest poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685 showed some interesting results regarding startup location. Now it would be nice to know what is the difference in percentage between the numbers of suits and geeks contributing to N.YC.

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2007-08-25 01:28:22 UTC

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nickb

Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email

farmer

Nonsense!

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2007-08-25 01:31:14 UTC

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portLAN

Sex, shopping and thinking pink (Men's and women's brains are different)

charzom

No, they aren't.

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2007-08-25 01:58:14 UTC

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donna

Cool meet for lunch networking site

tocomment

love the concept, wanted it to give me names of restaurants within the circle.

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2007-08-25 02:06:01 UTC

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palish

Chain productivity tool launches. Accomplish something every day

palish

It's quite nice finally being off work to really sit down and hammer out the rough edges. Check back tomorrow guys, many new features coming.

Fill in the blank: "I'm going to _____ every day." Thinking of something? Great! Head over to the site, and you can make posts about your experiences, share your chains with the world, and meet other people who are accomplishing the same things.No, the site won't delete any of your data if you miss a day. It simply gives you friendly reminders. :)

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2007-08-25 02:16:35 UTC

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bgold

iPhone unlocked: AT&T loses iPhone exclusivity

nostrademons

I wonder if Apple will sue. A new exception was added to the DMCA last year specifically to address things like this:"Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network."So it looks like this new law specifically allows you to hack your phone if all you want to do is unlock it. I'm actually kind of hoping that Apple sues the guys who did the unlocking, just to set a precedent when Apple loses.

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2007-08-25 02:39:42 UTC

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Dilbert: Quality at a Day Job (Keep Working on your Startup)

mikesabat

He seems a little confused about whether the benefit of capitalism is that the fittest survive so that the failure of the unfit benefits the entire system or whether employing people to pursue ideas which fail is good in itself since it stimulates the economy. The latter would be an example of Bastiat's "broken window fallacy" (http://www.econlib.org/library/Bastiat/basEss1.html).

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2007-08-25 02:41:53 UTC

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Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email

farmer

Anecdotally, Scoble once linked to a blog post of mine in his twitter linkblog and I think I got only two or three clickthroughs from it. So even though he may have 4000 users, measuring the value of a twitter follower is very different from measuring the value of a pageview. What exactly does it mean for one person to have more digital presence than another? What exactly is that worth? It seems like it will take a few years for these questions to get fully worked out.

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2007-08-25 02:49:54 UTC

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donna

Why Can't We Compute in the Cloud? Part 2

bootload

That will be an Apple product, MacBook mini. It's already rumored -- Flash memory, no hard drive, least possible size and weight. :)or maybe the Radio Shack Model 100 will come back: http://flickr.com/photos/jowo/11052651/

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2007-08-25 02:51:25 UTC

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henning

Scoble: Twitter etc are the next email

farmer

god i'm fucking sick of people who claim they have a crystal ball, especially when they don't write code.no file extensions, no privacy/crypto, no room to actually develop an idea, doesn't plug and play with other services (web apps like highrise, scripts that process mbox files, cellphones, ...). yeah, it's an email killer alright. especially when you go to send a message and you're greeted by a LOLcat that says you can't do what you want to do because they're dumbasses who don't know how to make a rapidly growing service scale.

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2007-08-25 03:00:41 UTC

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Is anyone making something women want?

aswanson

"... My problem is that from a tech standpoint, it's hard to gauge what a viable need for them is ..."something like "all consuming" perhaps? ~ http://www.allconsuming.net

Not being sexist, but they seem to -want- more than us, and walking into any shopping area seems to confirm that vendors know this. My problem is that from a tech standpoint, it's hard to gauge what a viable need for them is.

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2007-08-25 03:04:55 UTC

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randallsquared

Poll: Are you a suit or geek? ( I am not a geek )

rokhayakebe

Geek, usually in jeans and a t-shirt. More to the point, I'm asocial enough that it's going to be a challenge to do any face-to-face communication I need to do to make my startup work. We'll see how that works out. :)

The latest poll http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41685 showed some interesting results regarding startup location. Now it would be nice to know what is the difference in percentage between the numbers of suits and geeks contributing to N.YC.

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2007-08-25 03:08:00 UTC

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Sun's ticker symbol: SUNW -> JAVA

davidw

This is hilarious. Sun is the only company that hasn't figured out a way to make money off Java...this won't work either.

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2007-08-25 03:26:25 UTC

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jamongkad

jQuery 1.1.4 Released with Impressive Speed Improvements

nickb

Nice always been a faithful follower of Jquery.

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2007-08-25 03:28:26 UTC

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The most bizarre episode in the history of the papacy

rms

And this is hacker news why?

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2007-08-25 04:28:19 UTC

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Charming Python #13 Functional Programming in Python (part 1)

tzury

Don't try the functional while block at home: Python doesn't handle tail calls efficiently, so you'll take up O(number of iterations) memory, and you'll exceed the allowed maximum recursion in long loops.

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2007-08-25 04:46:49 UTC

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What should a striving non-programmer do?

xzibitendo

Now taking this question from a different angle... Suppose the striving programmer has chosen to start learning python. What steps would you take to start (are there any one click installers like there are for ruby? other things? tips for beginners). If you were doing it again, what would you keep in mind?

I have all of these ideas for a startup burning inside me, but with no real programming skills and no partner (yet) I feel trapped. Is it worth my time to teach myself programming? Any advice would be great.

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