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‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉(epiws tidder) !drieW
aston
Doesn't work in Firefox 3; it's still pretty cool.From the comments on Reddit, there are many unicode characters that have the RTL control character. http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/msdn/Control.aspx
If you paste that last character and type, everything goes backwards!
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2007-08-27 03:44:02 UTC
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rms
If you haven't tried Firefox 3 yet, you should. It's fast.
rms
I've been running the Firefox 3 alpha for a while now. It's gotten much more stable over the last couple weeks. I'm down to less than a crash a day now.I find Firefox 2 to be almost unusable because rendering lots of complex Javascript and Flash eats up an enormous amount of memory. Firefox 3's rendering engine is much better; I'd recommend everyone try it and see if it works for them. There are some other nice new features, like URL auto completion suggesting your most commonly visited sites/directories first.Use this tool to force your extensions to work with Firefox 3. http://www.oxymoronical.com/web/firefox/nightly
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2007-08-27 03:55:23 UTC
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How do you handle claims of neglect from your significant other(s)?
aswanson
Listen to them, they are right.Now get off the computer. :-)
You work on that computer too much, etc?
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2007-08-27 03:56:08 UTC
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‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉(epiws tidder) !drieW
aston
I've managed to get Eclipse to write backwards before and could never figure out why... this might explain it :p
If you paste that last character and type, everything goes backwards!
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2007-08-27 04:06:37 UTC
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thingsilearned
Do hackers care about workstation ergonomics?
inrev
Yes, it goes with Paul's latest post. A crappy or messy work station can clutter your thoughts and keep you from "Holding a program in one's head"
Do hackers care about seat height, table height, monitor height and distance, etc.?
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2007-08-27 04:25:04 UTC
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pg
Mark Cuban explains his "The Internet is Dead and Boring" statement
nickb
The examples he gives don't support his point very well. The arrival of moveable type, for example, set off an era of exciting changes that lasted a lot more than a generation. I'm not sure what Mark Cuban has stored in his head on that subject, but I suspect it would fit on a 3x5 index card.The wheel was the defining breakthrough for a generation? This is not a man you want to take history lessons from.His fundamental mistake is that he doesn't realize that social changes take a lot longer than technical ones. And new mediums of communication cause a lot of social changes. The Facebook would have been possible in 1995. It didn't happen till 2004. There would be a lot more such innovations still in the pipeline even if the physical Internet stopped changing today. (Not that it will.)
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2007-08-27 05:00:19 UTC
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‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉(epiws tidder) !drieW
aston
A google search on this give over 250K results!
If you paste that last character and type, everything goes backwards!
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2007-08-27 05:40:23 UTC
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matth
How do you handle claims of neglect from your significant other(s)?
aswanson
I just lost my SO a little over a month ago. In retrospect, I made a lot of mistakes during the time I was working on my little project.I have no advice, but my opinion, for what it's worth, is that if this is THE person for you, I truly doubt you would even be capable of neglecting them anymore than absolutely necessary. Sounds a bit off, but I believe it.If you are with THE one, you guys ought to be magical. That doesn't mean there won't be ups and downs (PG will tell you startup life is all-consuming, and personal experience says he's right).I lost my SO, but it didn't really phase me too much. She wasn't the one for me. If you're asking this question because you're going through this problem right now, maybe it is best to free yourself of unnecessary entanglements. But if you feel the person you're with is the one for you, do your best to keep your startup worries to the computer screen. Oh, during the "good times" with my SO, I used to be a pretty spontaneous person. Once the startup life began, I got pretty boring. Look out for that one. I hear women don't like boring.
You work on that computer too much, etc?
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2007-08-27 05:41:40 UTC
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Tim Bray: How Pantone missed the chance to become the color of the Internet
nickb
This isn't directly related to the article (sorry), but reading about how Pantone's CEO didn't recognize the opportunity with the Web did make me think of something else. It seems like every decade or so a new product/technology comes up that has a gravitational pull for a lot of other products and innovations; a lot of other stuff comes out that revolves around a central product. In the 80s, the central product was PCs. In the 90s, the product was the Internet, and later in that decade the Web. Is there such a central product/technology area right now? Is it the concept of Web 2.0, or is something else lurking around the corner?
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2007-08-27 06:00:48 UTC
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Idea: Blog + SocialNetworking = Blog2.0
pepeto
makes sense. you eliminate the wrapper called facebook or myspace, where you have to log-in to be your real/wanted self and see your real/wanted friends, and you just enter this world directly through your browser... blogging tools and platforms need to become more integrateable and people need to actually start doing it more. the foundations are in place - the blogroll meets the friends list, etc...
I think that we can rewire the blogsphere in a much more meaningful way and extract so much more value. Plenty of opportunities of startups, for current companies, for writers and readers.
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2007-08-27 06:02:53 UTC
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rms
The Singularity Summit 2007: AI and the Future of Humanity - Sept 8 & 9
jey
Prediction: Strong AI will not exist until human consciousnesses can be copied to computers.http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/OldArchive/bbs.searle2.ht...
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2007-08-27 06:42:52 UTC
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The Singularity Summit 2007: AI and the Future of Humanity - Sept 8 & 9
jey
http://flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=146209889&size=l&#38...
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2007-08-27 06:57:46 UTC
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giardini
Michael Lewis: In Nature's Casino (How Wall Street is trying to quantify the risk of catastrophic weather)
toffer
I have a problem with the example, which I quote at length:"An industrial company had called Lehman with a problem. It operated factories in Japan and California, both near fault lines. It could handle one of the two being shut down by an earthquake, but not both at the same time. Could Lehman Brothers quote a price for an option that would pay the company $10 million if both Japan and California suffered earthquakes in the same year? Lehman turned to its employee with a reputation for being able to price anything. And Seo thought it over. The earthquakes that the industrial company was worried about were not all that improbable: roughly once-a-decade events. A sloppy solution would be simply to call an insurance company and buy $10 million in coverage for the Japanese quake and then another $10 million in coverage for the California quake; the going rate was $2 million for each policy. "If I had been lazy, I could have just quoted $4 million for the premium," he says. "It would have been obnoxious to do so, but traders have been known to do it." If either quake happened, but not both, he would have a windfall gain of $10 million. (One of his policies would pay him $10 million, but he would not be required to pay anything to the quake-fearing corporation, since it would get paid only if both earthquakes occurred.)""But there was a better solution. He needed to buy the California quake insurance for $2 million, its market price, but only if the Japanese quake happened in the same year. All Seo had to do, then, was buy enough Japanese quake insurance so that if the Japanese quake occurred, he could afford to pay the insurance company for his $10 million California insurance policy: $2 million. In other words, he didn't need $10 million of Japanese quake insurance; he needed only $2 million. The cost of that was a mere $400,000. For that sum, he could insure the manufacturing company against its strange risk at little risk to himself. Anything he charged above $400,000 was pure profit for Lehman Brothers."My question:Shouldn't the text instead read "Anything he charged above $2,400,000..."? Suppose the CA earthquake occurs _before_ the JP earthquake. After the JP earthquake the insurer receives $2M but it's too late to buy CA insurance on a past event.To use one policy to pay for another, the insurer must buy both policies at the same time. Otherwise the risk of an uncovered event would occur.It would be cheaper to merely buy $10M worth of either CA or JP insurance alone (but not both), since, certeris paribus, either would cost only $2M. Am I missing something?
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2007-08-27 07:13:15 UTC
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‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉(epiws tidder) !drieW
aston
‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉( cool
If you paste that last character and type, everything goes backwards!
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2007-08-27 07:23:40 UTC
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nickb
‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉(epiws tidder) !drieW
aston
news.yc doesn't work with unicode..
If you paste that last character and type, everything goes backwards!
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2007-08-27 07:26:38 UTC
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SwellJoe
Do hackers care about workstation ergonomics?
inrev
If you don't now, you will in a few years. It gets more painful as you get older--by the time I was in my mid-twenties I had to have a good chair or I'd have serious back pain. I also had to find ways to work with less mouse usage, or it would lead to shooting pains in my forearms.I've settled into a nice place now, with a good monitor that raises up almost high enough (a Dell 2005), an Aeron chair, an IBM small form factor keyboard with good IBM keys, and a Logitech mouse that I still try to use as little as possible. I still have occasional back and shoulder pain, but I have some injuries from bike accidents in my youth. But I definitely take ergonomics seriously. I can't concentrate when I'm in pain.One thing that I've found makes a big difference for me: Exercise. Almost all of my various aches and pains are less pronounced and less debilitating when I'm getting regular exercise.
Do hackers care about seat height, table height, monitor height and distance, etc.?
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2007-08-27 07:44:07 UTC
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olenka
Holding a program in one's head
eposts
This is true for all kind of work you are doing with your head - and even if -like me- you are a surgeon! I guess I am "programming" my hands to do the work! Your essay gave me a better understanding - thanks
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2007-08-27 08:22:11 UTC
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mosimons
Holding a program in one's head
eposts
I suspected that my former employer was not unique in it's organizational misfits and reading your essay confirmed that it was indeed part of a larger picture. Of course. An organization cannot really tolerate indivduality as a basis for their development. Everything must be coordinated -> politics -> bad decisions. After working in a large organization for 8 years I quit, but not before I sent a letter to the man on the top. I conluded that my problems were due to his (bad) descisions:1. The leader of 130 IT workers was not educated in IT. None of the top leaders were into IT. Not even the lead architect! 2. The economists think of everything as a "factory". Therefore, IT is produced the same way. I call this the "factory-view". If you add more money, more developers you will get this done faster. If you need something, go buy it. It's always better to outsource.There were other things as well, but these factors may probably be more widespread than I like to think of. Finally I left for a small firm. What a relief!!
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2007-08-27 10:11:11 UTC
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corentin
Doing more with less: Apple's most controversial app to date - iMovie '08
nickb
Except that, apparently, in the case of Movie 2008 it's doing less with less.
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2007-08-27 10:30:23 UTC
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Startup: eliminate junk mail
andres
From an email from a friend of mine from a while back:I use PaperlessPOBox for my mail scanning, and they don't require you to choose if mail should be scanned or not--they scan it all. I noticed that the service you mentioned [remote control mail#] only scans the outside of the mail (probably the envelope) and then when you receive a notification, you have to tell them to open it and scan it. That's kind of lame, but they're probably still buying mail scanning equipment and can't handle all of the volume yet.I also use MyEZBills for the scanning of all my bills. They receive the bills, scan them, notify you when they arrive, use OCR to determine the amounts and dates due. You can also set up automatic payments to pay fixed amounts or the minimum balance due.# http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/22/remote-control-mail-che...
I've been getting especially pissed off at junk (snail) mail lately. Here's a business idea for how to eliminate junk mail: one mailbox for life. Set up one central mail facility which your customers use as their mailing address. When their mail comes in throw out the obvious junk mail and email scanned copies of the rest. Incinerate every piece of junk mail which comes into your facility.
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2007-08-27 11:17:21 UTC
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extantproject
Goals and the GTD
thinkingserious
Write your projects as successful outcomes and make sure each has a physical next action. Review your entire system weekly.
A technique on integrating the goal setting process into the GTD for daily execution.
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2007-08-27 11:20:41 UTC
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ivankirigin
The Singularity Summit 2007: AI and the Future of Humanity - Sept 8 & 9
jey
I went last year. Lots of fun. Cory Doctorow was probably the best speaker. I hadn't read BoingBoing much before that, and now I'm a rapid fan. I think the discussion with Luddites was fairly useless. It shows a fair amount of due diligence, where dissenting voices are given a podium far larger than the they "deserve" given the popularity of their opinions. I did enjoy that the Luddite gave a talk through teleconference.The format last year was pretty bad at times. The Open-Mic questions wasted lots of time. Written questions were submitted but not used. There were no break-off sessions.Also, the moderator, Peter Thiel, is as boring as watching paint dry, and didn't actually do any reasonable moderation of the discussion.
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2007-08-27 11:32:33 UTC
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rustartup
What Do People Want?
mudge
read this great post: http://www.gobignetwork.com/wil/2007/1/5/forget-about-the-so... The smartest entrepreneurs aren't the ones who figure out the solutions to big problems, they are the ones who actually understand the value of those big problems. Smart entrepreneurs focus on the very essence of why the problem exists and the pain it causes. Then, when they find a solution that works, they know how valuable the solution really is.
I want to build something people want. What do you want?
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2007-08-27 11:36:34 UTC
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mhb
Tim Bray: How Pantone missed the chance to become the color of the Internet
nickb
How does Pantone make money?
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2007-08-27 12:07:06 UTC
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Tichy
Do hackers care about workstation ergonomics?
inrev
Am I the only one who is not that thrilled by Aeron chairs? I took one over from my father, because he didn't like it, either, but I am also not happy with it. I find the plastic parts tend to cut into my legs and hurt me, because I sink into the rubber net too deeply. Also the settings are unstable, every now and then the chair collapses and I have to reconfigure it again. OT: does anybody know how I can determine the exact model type of my Aeron chair, as I would like to put it up on ebay?
Do hackers care about seat height, table height, monitor height and distance, etc.?
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2007-08-27 12:34:28 UTC
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dotcoma
Mark Cuban explains his "The Internet is Dead and Boring" statement
nickb
so, for Mark it's exciting only as long as things don't work and you have to worry about them... nice point ;-)
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2007-08-27 12:42:28 UTC
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chakravarthy
Holding a program in one's head
eposts
I completely agree with the points.
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2007-08-27 12:48:51 UTC
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prakash
Digg is down
moses1400
I am the only one to see the irony in this? What's the point of posting information about a website that is down? I can understand if its a service like Skype but digg...
FYI, Digg is down.
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2007-08-27 13:02:16 UTC
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iamwil
Wondrous oddities: R's function-call semantics
nickb
Huh, never seen that before. And as usual, when I (or anyone else) sees a new language construct, you wonder--when would I use that?The blog post is right though. I imagine if you needed default values that were more dynamic, you can move that code into the method with R's function-call semantics. Therefore, you'd need to do less preparation of dynamic default values outside of the method, thus making libraries and APIs easier to use.
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2007-08-27 14:08:59 UTC
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dpapathanasiou
There's Still Money in Web Retailing
dpapathanasiou
Anyone up for building a "ViaWeb 2.0" ?
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2007-08-27 14:22:24 UTC
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PG on Y Combinator
drm237
Other one you can't talk about == Parakey?
aul is a great guy and has built a huge following in the startup community. I have a lot of respect for him and what he has done. Y Combinator is a great story. Paul agreed to share some details with me. Here it is live and uncut.
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2007-08-27 14:46:10 UTC
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sanj
Idea: Blog + SocialNetworking = Blog2.0
pepeto
buzzword_a + buzzword_b = distinct_lack_of_imagination_from_a_hackBy the way, it was called "Usenet", and it devolved under the weight of the commons.
I think that we can rewire the blogsphere in a much more meaningful way and extract so much more value. Plenty of opportunities of startups, for current companies, for writers and readers.
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2007-08-27 14:53:24 UTC
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bmaier
An interesting take on hackers vs. businesspeople
bmaier
> They aren't systems thinkers. They are the business equivalent of a bench researcher that simply pours blue stuff into green stuff, watches to see if it turns yellow, and then informs his boss of the result. In both science and business, most people aren't actually innovating.Hypothesis: I think that this is the most important thing to a startup, regardless of whether you can write code or not. Startups need systems thinkers and innovators on the code side as well as the business side, people who can grasp a problem and come up with unique solutions. You can find these people no matter their background and this trait is likely quite tied into creativity in all its forms.
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2007-08-27 15:00:12 UTC
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brlewis
An interesting take on hackers vs. businesspeople
bmaier
"we carefully picked the business members of the teams for their excellent technical savvy"At what level of expertise in both areas do you stop pigeonholing people?
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2007-08-27 15:06:33 UTC
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dzohrob
Idea: Blog + SocialNetworking = Blog2.0
pepeto
sort of close: readr.com.
I think that we can rewire the blogsphere in a much more meaningful way and extract so much more value. Plenty of opportunities of startups, for current companies, for writers and readers.
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2007-08-27 15:46:58 UTC
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kashif
An interesting take on hackers vs. businesspeople
bmaier
This whole hacker vs. suits thing is lame. Lets please post more insightful material. Most writing on this subject has been boring and repetitive with a lack of depth.PS: I make this comment because we can't down mod stories.
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2007-08-27 15:47:43 UTC
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dzohrob
‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉(epiws tidder) !drieW
aston
it's probably from a bidirectional or right-to-left character set. some languages go from right-to-left, but (incredibly) some can go in both directions, depending on the context.
If you paste that last character and type, everything goes backwards!
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2007-08-27 15:48:05 UTC
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ctkrohn
If you haven't tried Firefox 3 yet, you should. It's fast.
rms
No version for MacOS 10.3 :-/I've resisted upgrading for so long, since 10.4 never had any particular appeal to me, but it's getting harder and harder to find apps built for 10.3.
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2007-08-27 15:54:40 UTC
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Digg is down
moses1400
Phew! Now I can go back to wasting time consuming scraped linkbait blog posts.
FYI, Digg is down.
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2007-08-27 15:56:18 UTC
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lucraft
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jkush
I like the idea, but what an ugly face!
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2007-08-27 16:19:38 UTC
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brlewis
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jkush
No error correction? Not even a parity bit? Big-endian only? I'll pass.
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2007-08-27 16:28:18 UTC
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Do hackers care about workstation ergonomics?
inrev
The thing I care about most is my keyboard. http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productde...
Do hackers care about seat height, table height, monitor height and distance, etc.?
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2007-08-27 16:37:24 UTC
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webwright
Idea: Blog + SocialNetworking = Blog2.0
pepeto
The link is down, so I can't read the details, but...LiveJournal?
I think that we can rewire the blogsphere in a much more meaningful way and extract so much more value. Plenty of opportunities of startups, for current companies, for writers and readers.
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2007-08-27 16:39:58 UTC
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Alex3917
An interesting take on hackers vs. businesspeople
bmaier
Things that can be easily quantified tend to be overvalued.Corollary: Both the smartest and the dumbest members of society tend to develop unhealthy obsessions with numbers.
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2007-08-27 16:41:54 UTC
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kingnothing
What is Time? (An Entrepreneur's Definition of Freedom)
entrepreneur
Didn't Paul write something along these lines as well? I've read something similar that was more fleshed out... Anyone know what it was?
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2007-08-27 16:43:48 UTC
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brlewis
Facebook to open goldmine of data to advertisers (Huge privacy implications)
nickb
The article seems to imply Google has backed off from ad targeting. I don't think so. An email I got about the death of someone's mother caused gmail to put an ad in the sidebar about grief counseling in his city.People accept google's targeted ads because the info isn't passed back to advertisers; the system shows a relevant ad based on text and then (as far as I know) forgets it. If Facebook eventually works the same way, I think objections will subside.
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2007-08-27 16:47:58 UTC
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revolvingcur
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jkush
For the lazy, headline translates to "Geek Watch"
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2007-08-27 16:53:30 UTC
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ecuzzillo
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jkush
I had that for a while, but stopped wearing it because a) I can't wear watches, and b) it takes just a little too long to convert in your head. It would work much better if all our amounts of time (minutes in an hour, hours in a day) were powers of 2.
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2007-08-27 16:54:53 UTC
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aston
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jkush
I find the coolest geek stuff to be where it's more subtle. If the average person I run into can tell I'm geeking out, it's not worth wearing.
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2007-08-27 16:56:50 UTC
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aston
What markup is available on news.yc?
kingnothing
asterisks around words make italics, and if you start a line with a space (and put an empty line above it) it looks like code(). PS: The italics deal makes it hard to insert more than one *. Although I _think_ there's a workaround (I just don't remember it).
Is there any?
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2007-08-27 17:00:18 UTC
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aston
New Billmonk Feature: Debt Shuffling
adamdoupe
I'm surprised this wasn't a feature right out of the gate. The uncool part is the potentially large checks certain people may have to bear in order to make things work.
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2007-08-27 17:06:22 UTC
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henning
‫‬‭‮‪‫‬‭‮҉(epiws tidder) !drieW
aston
I'm glad I'm not the only one who doesn't understand Unicode and doesn't understand how to code in such a way that I avoid discriminating against people who happened to not be born in a country where a language with a Latin alphabet is used.
If you paste that last character and type, everything goes backwards!
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2007-08-27 17:17:01 UTC
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Paul Graham and Walt Disney
drm237
Walt is probably the most successful businessman ever to follow the mantra "Make Something People Want". He wasn't a big fan of budgets, business models, and the like. He built things he wanted, and believed other people wanted too. He was a workaholic and a visionary, and never settled for just good enough. It shows in his work and it shows in the work that happened at Disney after his death.
Here's more of an opinion piece than a convention report. Needless to say, everything here is my own opinion alone and I'm not speaking for anybody else running Penguicon. I like to think that Penguicon is an incubator of Imagineers. This is a combination of artistic and literary imagination with engineering know-how, a word coined by one of my lifelong inspirations, Walt Disney:
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SwellJoe
An interesting take on hackers vs. businesspeople
bmaier
I'm struck by (and commented directly on the blog) how much the author wants "Extreme Blue" to be seen as comparable to YC...where the similarities are superficial and the differences are vast.That comment hasn't shown up, so I'll point out the highlights here:- EB encourages kids to build things. For IBM.- YC encourages people (not just kids) to build things. For the people building them.- EB teams must have "business" and "technical" people, selected by a random manager at IBM.- YC teams are self-selected, and are judged by what they produce, not what label they use to describe their abilities.- EB teams build something that may, or may not, ever see the light of day in the market.- YC teams build something that, if they work hard, can hit the market whenever they're ready. No manager ever has to sign off on the project.In short, EB is a corporate internship and YC is an opportunity to build something great (you don't need YC to build something great, but for many folks it can help). Corporate internships are fine, and I'm sure everyone has a great time and IBM gets its pick of some great talent discovered through the process, but it is just a corporate inernship. It is distinctly not a radical new process to encourage spinning up new businesses.I'm not disparaging IBM here. This sounds like a great idea for them. But don't pretend it is something that it clearly is not.
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2007-08-27 17:19:05 UTC
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toffer
Idea: Blog + SocialNetworking = Blog2.0
pepeto
The problem with making your blog the hub of your social network is that there is no concept of private groups or private friends for a blog. Everything is public. The post gives an example of uploading photos, and then automatically notifying friends via RSS that new photos are up. Sounds like Facebook, except on Facebook, only my friends could see the photos, not the whole world.I don't think you solve this problem until there is an Internet-wide system for managing your identity. (Obviously, OpenID and OpenAuth are steps in this direction.)Plus, I also think that it is psychologically more difficult to start a blog than it is to create a profile page on a social network. With a blog, you have to overcome the "Blank Canvas Fear" ("What am I supposed to say?") and the "Public Speaking Fear" ("I'm speaking to the whole world, not just my friends.") Filling out a Facebook profile and writing on your friend's Wall is a much easier way to start.
I think that we can rewire the blogsphere in a much more meaningful way and extract so much more value. Plenty of opportunities of startups, for current companies, for writers and readers.
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2007-08-27 17:27:40 UTC
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palish
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jkush
By the way, the headline reads "Geek Watch" if you convert it to ASCII.
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2007-08-27 17:32:10 UTC
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knewjax
Bandsintown at it again
knewjax
Today Bandsintown launches the first major update to the site since our launch in june. This major update officially launches Bandsintown as a "Social Network" The updates include the ability to add friends, message, and comment. All users now have profile pages, and an upcoming show widget to be used anywhere they like. We also added a page called Fansintown which displays live music fans in your area. We are still in development and will continually be updating and realeasing new version of the site until the beta version is complete. We are listening to all our users comments and feedback to help guide our development so please let us know what you think and what you want in a live music community website! thanks again for all the Ycombinator help! check out Bandsintown.com
Today Bandsintown launches the first major update to the site since our launch in june. This major update officially launches Bandsintown as a "Social Network" The updates include the ability to add friends, message, and comment. All users now have profile pages, and an upcoming show widget to be used anywhere they like. We also added a page called Fansintown which displays live music fans in your area. We are still in development and will continually be updating and realeasing new version of the site until the beta version is complete. We are listingin to all our users comments and feedback to help guide our development so please let us know what you think and what you want in a live music community website! thanks again for all the Ycombinator help!Check it out at Bandsintown.com
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2007-08-27 17:56:13 UTC
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knewjax
Bandsintown at it again
knewjax
This post was originally titled "rejected YC company Bandsintown at it again" are there rules here forbidding us from saying that? The title was edited a few minutes after i posted it. I know i have an interest in all the companies that are both YC funded as well as ones who were not. And i know i have read posts from others curious about rejected YC companies and how they were doing now. I think I saw one as early as last week.
Today Bandsintown launches the first major update to the site since our launch in june. This major update officially launches Bandsintown as a "Social Network" The updates include the ability to add friends, message, and comment. All users now have profile pages, and an upcoming show widget to be used anywhere they like. We also added a page called Fansintown which displays live music fans in your area. We are still in development and will continually be updating and realeasing new version of the site until the beta version is complete. We are listingin to all our users comments and feedback to help guide our development so please let us know what you think and what you want in a live music community website! thanks again for all the Ycombinator help!Check it out at Bandsintown.com
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2007-08-27 18:13:29 UTC
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knewjax
Labeling A company as YC rejected? Not OK?
knewjax
Is this considered unethical or against the hackernews rules?We label Bandsintown as a rejected company to show perseverance and because i think there is an interest in the companies that are applying to YC wether they made it or not. I am curious to how everyone feels on this issue.
Is this considered unethical or against the hackernews rules?We label Bandsintown as a rejected company to show perseverance and because i think there is an interest in the companies that are applying to YC wether they made it or not. I am curious to how everyone feels on this issue.
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2007-08-27 18:22:18 UTC
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pg
An interesting take on hackers vs. businesspeople
bmaier
We don't disagree where he thinks we do. He thinks the world is divided into hackers and business people, and that I despise the latter. Actually I think there are people who can hack and people who can do business, and there is substantial overlap, as in the classic Venn diagram. The best founders are in the lenticular region in the middle. The people who can only hack can migrate to it more easily than the people who can only do business.IBM's rule that each group has to have both hackers and business people reflects their belief that the world is partitioned between them. It only makes sense if you believe there is zero overlap in the Venn diagram. That's where we really disagree.
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2007-08-27 18:22:38 UTC
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pg
Ask PG: How many submissions yet?
kashif
We're not going to quote the number any more. The reason is that we now have competitors, and we don't want to get in an application number war. It's easy to get massive numbers of applications by encouraging applications from people you know you won't accept: for example, undergrads who don't really want to drop out of school. We don't want to tempt anyone to do that.
PG, How many applications yet for the next season of YC funding?
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2007-08-27 18:37:54 UTC
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pg
Labeling A company as YC rejected? Not OK?
knewjax
There was a rash of startups doing this to get attention a few months ago. After the first couple we started deleting such descriptions. It's an edge case, but probably abuse, especially considering the motive. Which incidentally is probably also a large part of the motive for this post. If you were really just interested in the abstract question, you could have avoided the appearance of an ulterior motive by making this a straight question instead of linking to your original post. Want me to change that for you?
Is this considered unethical or against the hackernews rules?We label Bandsintown as a rejected company to show perseverance and because i think there is an interest in the companies that are applying to YC wether they made it or not. I am curious to how everyone feels on this issue.
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2007-08-27 18:45:48 UTC
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pg
The biggest (meaningful) number of them all
jkush
Seems punily human-centric. How about the number of states in the biggest possible brain?
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2007-08-27 18:53:49 UTC
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nostrademons
Computational Capacity of the Universe [PDF]
nostrademons
Non-PDF homepage = http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0110141, where you have a choice between PostScript/PDF/DVI/TeX source.
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2007-08-27 19:02:51 UTC
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cperciva
Labeling A company as YC rejected? Not OK?
knewjax
Labelling a company as having been rejected by YC is misleading, because it implies a value judgement which wasn't made. Probably 90% of the people who visit your website leave without signing up; equally, my understanding is that most startups (even successful ones) find that 90% of angels and VCs turn them down. Do you label yourself with the names of all the potential users who "rejected" you?As Paul has pointed out in the past, there are many reasons why a company might not receive funding, and most of them have nothing to do with the merits of the company itself. Being not accepted by YC doesn't mean that they necessarily think there's anything wrong with you -- in this case, "not accepted" is not a synonym for "rejected".
Is this considered unethical or against the hackernews rules?We label Bandsintown as a rejected company to show perseverance and because i think there is an interest in the companies that are applying to YC wether they made it or not. I am curious to how everyone feels on this issue.
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2007-08-27 19:03:23 UTC
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rms
The biggest (meaningful) number of them all
jkush
How about the number of connections between all objects that obey gravitation?
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2007-08-27 19:08:06 UTC
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dazzawazza
01000111 01100101 01100101 01101011 00100000 01010111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000
jkush
can you imagine trying to get through US customs with what looks like a hollywood bomb on your wrist!
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2007-08-27 19:08:58 UTC
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brlewis
PG on Y Combinator
drm237
"We have no idea if it will work." Those are always the most exciting ventures.
aul is a great guy and has built a huge following in the startup community. I have a lot of respect for him and what he has done. Y Combinator is a great story. Paul agreed to share some details with me. Here it is live and uncut.
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2007-08-27 19:31:16 UTC
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SwellJoe
Labeling A company as YC rejected? Not OK?
knewjax
You're being silly and it makes me think you have nothing else worth talking about. There were 400+ apps to the most recent YC program...I don't want to know if you were one of them. It's relatively interesting when a company is a YC company, but is distinctly uninteresting that you took 20 minutes out of your day to fill out the application. That just tells us you had 20 minutes to spare.
Is this considered unethical or against the hackernews rules?We label Bandsintown as a rejected company to show perseverance and because i think there is an interest in the companies that are applying to YC wether they made it or not. I am curious to how everyone feels on this issue.
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2007-08-27 19:40:24 UTC
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mattmaroon
Labeling A company as YC rejected? Not OK?
knewjax
There should be a special logo for YCombinator rejects to display. I humbly offer http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1169/1251010963_4787666411_m....
Is this considered unethical or against the hackernews rules?We label Bandsintown as a rejected company to show perseverance and because i think there is an interest in the companies that are applying to YC wether they made it or not. I am curious to how everyone feels on this issue.
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2007-08-27 19:48:33 UTC
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zb
If you haven't tried Firefox 3 yet, you should. It's fast.
rms
i installed it, i'm excited
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2007-08-27 20:08:32 UTC
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henning
Raganwald on Meanies
kkim
Internets is srs bsns.
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2007-08-27 20:23:19 UTC
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knewjax
Bandsintown at it again
knewjax
Do the HackerNews Readers have any constructive critism for us? anything is good. We still have a long ways to go but the more input we have the better. Thanks for the help in advance.
Today Bandsintown launches the first major update to the site since our launch in june. This major update officially launches Bandsintown as a "Social Network" The updates include the ability to add friends, message, and comment. All users now have profile pages, and an upcoming show widget to be used anywhere they like. We also added a page called Fansintown which displays live music fans in your area. We are still in development and will continually be updating and realeasing new version of the site until the beta version is complete. We are listingin to all our users comments and feedback to help guide our development so please let us know what you think and what you want in a live music community website! thanks again for all the Ycombinator help!Check it out at Bandsintown.com
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2007-08-27 20:23:42 UTC
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harbinjer
Ask PG: How many submissions yet?
kashif
A more interesting question: Do you think any of your applicants are also applying with you competitors? For the applicants: are you applying to more than just Yc?
PG, How many applications yet for the next season of YC funding?
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2007-08-27 20:25:02 UTC
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some
The biggest (meaningful) number of them all
jkush
If all atoms in the universe would form a single brain...
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2007-08-27 20:28:03 UTC
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andreyf
Raganwald on Meanies
kkim
"Learn from my experience: if there is no intellectual benefit to be had from a discussion, walk away."sigh yet another thing <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html">I wish I'd known</a> earlier
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2007-08-27 20:57:06 UTC
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trekker7
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
vlad
Insanely great. Reminds of that post about K->12 students doing startups a while ago... maybe they can do it, after all.
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2007-08-27 21:14:03 UTC
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vlad
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
vlad
She's 17 years old, and she declined a 1.6$M offer.
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2007-08-27 21:16:34 UTC
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vessko
Holding a program in one's head
eposts
I am NOT a SW guy per say - I do ASIC/System level emulation - my way. It is a task that requires HW, different pieces of SW, scripting and work in the lab - but boy'o'boy - did U hit the nail RIGHT on the head. I worked for 4 years in a small but fiery start up and developed all the necessary pieces to emulate our system of 40M gates for about 1/10 of the $$ of commercial solutions - exactly the way U described it - in my head and in the (scarce) off hours.... Anyway, the startup didn't make it for the same lame reasons hundreds don't make it - abysmal (mis)management decisions that no technology can defeat :( Now for a year I live in the quiet HELL of a bigger (and BIGGER) company where I HAVE to push the 2 buttons that I am assigned to and constantly reminded to shut up and watch the buttons I am assigned to push.... You touched a RAW nerve! vess
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2007-08-27 21:38:52 UTC
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garbowza
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
vlad
It's awesome to see not just a young person succeeding on their startup, but a female as well. Clearly female hackers are more rare than their male counterparts, so bravo to Ashley for blazing her own trail.
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2007-08-27 22:01:48 UTC
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Alex3917
Bandsintown at it again
knewjax
I uploaded about ten shows in Ithaca, NY figuring it would help you guys out. I'm a little disappointed though that I can't actually see any of the shows I added. Is there some sort of approval process before they get added to the site, or did all of my entries just disappear?
Today Bandsintown launches the first major update to the site since our launch in june. This major update officially launches Bandsintown as a "Social Network" The updates include the ability to add friends, message, and comment. All users now have profile pages, and an upcoming show widget to be used anywhere they like. We also added a page called Fansintown which displays live music fans in your area. We are still in development and will continually be updating and realeasing new version of the site until the beta version is complete. We are listingin to all our users comments and feedback to help guide our development so please let us know what you think and what you want in a live music community website! thanks again for all the Ycombinator help!Check it out at Bandsintown.com
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2007-08-27 22:11:36 UTC
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payson
Holding a program in one's head
eposts
Thoughtful essay. You fail to mention the divide and conquer strategy that good mathematicians and programmers use to manage the complexity. Using your "loading" analogy, it would be like carving a problem into pages that exhibit locality of reference.When mentoring smart rookies, this is the bit some are last to grasp. Partitioning a problem means that there isn't as much to remember. This scales, fractal-like to the design of larger systems.I find as I get older, this is more and more important and necessary.
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2007-08-27 22:14:30 UTC
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portLAN
Things to fix on YC News
portLAN
IMO comments shouldn't even be rated this way. Posts full of useful information score less than one-liners of opinion; controversy is an automatic point-killer. I'd just turn it off, or separate it into categories, like "agree with sentiment", "insightful", "funny","troll", etc., a bit like Slashdot. A score of 1 could mean anything from "nobody has read it" to "controversial"; it could be flamebait or very useful.Voting stories up or down is also much less helpful than it could be. Some are a little bit useful, some are great, but you can only give them 1 point regardless. Imagine IMDB: "103823 people liked this movie." "892 people liked this more obscure movie." A better rating system would make a lot more sense.
Did you know you can get "unknown or expired link" on a LOGIN link? If you're logged out, open a story, wait a while, then click login.Also, replying really shouldn't expire at all, let alone within an hour or two of the post being opened.Unicode in comments would be good.Better markup options. Quoting especially should stand out. You can't add literal asterisks for the most part. Code should be less of a pain -- you can't start a comment with code because leading whitespace is eaten.Better user history (not just the last X comments, but all of them, so we can find what we wrote again)Notification of responses so we don't have to check our own threads constantlyPrivate messaging, instead of responding to someone and hoping they check their own threads and read itThe ability to vote stories down -- this can help separate out blog spam from useful new submissions that just haven't gotten attention.Similarly, the ability to vote down direct replies. The current lack is probably to prevent mere gainsaying, but it doesn't work because there's currently a disparity where someone else can vote you down and then reply, while you can't vote down what they are saying. First move loses. In both of the above cases this doesn't preserve karma as you can always vote down their other, unrelated comments; it just stops you from expressing your opinion.You should be able to kill your own posts at any time. Restricting editing is one thing so someone doesn't twist something around on you, but you should be able to delete anything you post just in case (maybe you messed up with an NDA or other confidential information; realized you made a mistake on something an hour later; other legitimate reasons will occur to you).Reddit is a pretty good model for the basics like this.Others?
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2007-08-27 22:24:52 UTC
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robg
Computational Capacity of the Universe [PDF]
nostrademons
Nice response to the computational capacity of neurons post. Problem is: Whatever information the universe contains, it's only as good as the brains to process and store it.
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2007-08-27 22:31:52 UTC
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wpietri
Holding a program in one's head
eposts
Excellent points, except it's clear you've never spend much time pair programming in a small team. There, the rules are a little different, as the design is a collaborative process. Although there's more inertia than working solo, I like team pair programming better. You get third-draft code in first-draft time when pairing, and having to continuously collaborate on the design sharpens your thinking a lot.
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2007-08-27 23:05:15 UTC
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dfranke
Raganwald on Meanies
kkim
The original poster is the most entertaining troll I've ever read. It's depressing that so many people didn't realize he was trolling.
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2007-08-27 23:17:02 UTC
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neuro
Bandsintown at it again
knewjax
pg, This type of moderation is a fracture to people's perception of y-combinator, fix it before it breaks. It's not in the spirit of your essays. p.s. I like the dash, hopefully you won't moderate that too.
Today Bandsintown launches the first major update to the site since our launch in june. This major update officially launches Bandsintown as a "Social Network" The updates include the ability to add friends, message, and comment. All users now have profile pages, and an upcoming show widget to be used anywhere they like. We also added a page called Fansintown which displays live music fans in your area. We are still in development and will continually be updating and realeasing new version of the site until the beta version is complete. We are listingin to all our users comments and feedback to help guide our development so please let us know what you think and what you want in a live music community website! thanks again for all the Ycombinator help!Check it out at Bandsintown.com
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2007-08-27 23:24:06 UTC
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henning
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
vlad
the fact that the average young person has neither taste nor technical ability is evidently quite a lucrative business opportunity.unfortunately myspace has repeatedly shown that they are hostile to external business partners and don't want to turn myspace into an ecosystem. at any time they could capriciously shut you down. it's rupert murdoch and fox news you're dealing with.
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2007-08-27 23:28:52 UTC
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cellis
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
vlad
Ok seriously. This is right under my nose! Detroit. I'm in Mt. Pleasant. Wow. Awesome that the googleplex ann arbor isn't the only successful tech development in this troubled economy. And at only 17, I applaud her.
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2007-08-27 23:44:46 UTC
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ph0rque
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
vlad
I forwarded this article to my sisters, who are around that age.
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2007-08-28 00:00:01 UTC
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Goladus
Labeling A company as YC rejected? Not OK?
knewjax
I recommend reading the forum and just waiting around for the next time someone asks "Have we heard from any companies that got rejected and still went forward?"
Is this considered unethical or against the hackernews rules?We label Bandsintown as a rejected company to show perseverance and because i think there is an interest in the companies that are applying to YC wether they made it or not. I am curious to how everyone feels on this issue.
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2007-08-28 00:07:51 UTC
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henning
Video: Interview with Jason Fried
dawie
He makes it sound so easy and elementary.The truth is that when they launched Basecamp they already had major name recognition and tons of web designers (their primary audience for Basecamp) already admired their philosophy on UI design and old-school web design (which is what they did before DHH came along).Starting with that made all the difference in the world. Fried is excellent at giving the impression he's speaking candidly and informally when really he's continuing a neverending cult-like pitch.Not many people can do that. Certainly not I.
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2007-08-28 00:21:59 UTC
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Tichy
do not. I am just letting it out.
rokhayakebe
breathe in, breathe out...
O boy. I am not writing for anyone to enjoy or even read this. But this is the only place I am socially active on a daily basis. I kinda feel secure here. Last Tuesday I lost my job ( well I quit, but I did not like it and they were treating me poorly). Wednesday I lost my car. It stopped in the middle of the freeway. I managed to take it home after 3 hours ( the normal ride is about 5 minutes top ). Thursday I lost my phone. If you are addicted to mobile IM and push email, then loosing your phone is like loosing your ability to breath and now you must live with a tube stuck in your throat. Friday I lost my girlfriend. O boy. Now that one hurt. Can you imagine seeing someone leave you when you need them the most. My girlfriend knows me more about me than anyone outside my family. I thought she was sweet. I never thought she really loved me, but we had this rule of "no lie" that made it all smooth. She lied to me. Big time. And to make matters worst, I found she did for a long time. O boy. I am not even mad, but I am hurt and unpleasantly surprised. Saturday and Sunday were tough, but I managed. Today, I found out more lies from her. O boy. And today, the one person I called my best friend let me down. I called him and say I needed his help. O boy. "Hang on" he told me, "You will do fine". O boy. I keep wishing that I will wake up soon. I wished this is a dream. Somebody wake me up please before it is too late. Wake me up.
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2007-08-28 00:33:51 UTC
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dawie
Video: Interview with Jason Fried
dawie
I like it how his message is always consistent. I would like to hear some new things about their company and business though. The message in the video he has been giving for 2 years now...
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2007-08-28 00:39:26 UTC
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gibsonf1
do not. I am just letting it out.
rokhayakebe
Damn, that is a large quantity of bad luck in a short amount of time... But don't panic!I would say getting the lying gf out of your life is definitely a good thing as painful as it may be now. I had a similar problem with my ex-fiancee. Sooner is much better than later - life is too short to deal with lying gfs/friends.If you didn't like your job, then its good to be out. Focus on what it is you want out of a job, and go get it. Get a new phone. Fix your car (if you need it), and then when the dust settles, you may grab victory out of the jaws of defeat. It has happened to me several times when things seemed impossibly bad. The key: you are still standing to fight another day. Never give up.
O boy. I am not writing for anyone to enjoy or even read this. But this is the only place I am socially active on a daily basis. I kinda feel secure here. Last Tuesday I lost my job ( well I quit, but I did not like it and they were treating me poorly). Wednesday I lost my car. It stopped in the middle of the freeway. I managed to take it home after 3 hours ( the normal ride is about 5 minutes top ). Thursday I lost my phone. If you are addicted to mobile IM and push email, then loosing your phone is like loosing your ability to breath and now you must live with a tube stuck in your throat. Friday I lost my girlfriend. O boy. Now that one hurt. Can you imagine seeing someone leave you when you need them the most. My girlfriend knows me more about me than anyone outside my family. I thought she was sweet. I never thought she really loved me, but we had this rule of "no lie" that made it all smooth. She lied to me. Big time. And to make matters worst, I found she did for a long time. O boy. I am not even mad, but I am hurt and unpleasantly surprised. Saturday and Sunday were tough, but I managed. Today, I found out more lies from her. O boy. And today, the one person I called my best friend let me down. I called him and say I needed his help. O boy. "Hang on" he told me, "You will do fine". O boy. I keep wishing that I will wake up soon. I wished this is a dream. Somebody wake me up please before it is too late. Wake me up.
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2007-08-28 00:59:39 UTC
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mattmaroon
Teenage Girl's MySpace Layouts Worth Millions, Drops Out Of High School
vlad
I actually get this magazine in paper (thanks for that Delta Airlines!) and was pretty surprised by that story too. I think it's yet another plentyoffish style story that makes the web look a little more democratic than it really is.
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2007-08-28 01:03:07 UTC
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nickb
do not. I am just letting it out.
rokhayakebe
Job.... you did the right thing. Waking up every morning and not being able to look at yourself in the mirror and dreading going to work is not a way to live. Life's so damn short! You need to follow your dreams.Car.... it can be replaced.Phone... well, now you will not be as distracted as much and you can start working on the future.Girlfriend... well, you found out on time. Imagine if you were married and had kids? What a mess that would be!Let us know how it goes but best of luck to you... things are not as dark as you think! At least you're healthy! That's absolutely the most important thing.
O boy. I am not writing for anyone to enjoy or even read this. But this is the only place I am socially active on a daily basis. I kinda feel secure here. Last Tuesday I lost my job ( well I quit, but I did not like it and they were treating me poorly). Wednesday I lost my car. It stopped in the middle of the freeway. I managed to take it home after 3 hours ( the normal ride is about 5 minutes top ). Thursday I lost my phone. If you are addicted to mobile IM and push email, then loosing your phone is like loosing your ability to breath and now you must live with a tube stuck in your throat. Friday I lost my girlfriend. O boy. Now that one hurt. Can you imagine seeing someone leave you when you need them the most. My girlfriend knows me more about me than anyone outside my family. I thought she was sweet. I never thought she really loved me, but we had this rule of "no lie" that made it all smooth. She lied to me. Big time. And to make matters worst, I found she did for a long time. O boy. I am not even mad, but I am hurt and unpleasantly surprised. Saturday and Sunday were tough, but I managed. Today, I found out more lies from her. O boy. And today, the one person I called my best friend let me down. I called him and say I needed his help. O boy. "Hang on" he told me, "You will do fine". O boy. I keep wishing that I will wake up soon. I wished this is a dream. Somebody wake me up please before it is too late. Wake me up.
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2007-08-28 01:11:17 UTC
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danielha
do not. I am just letting it out.
rokhayakebe
Rest assured, nearly everyone has had a string of incredible bad luck that seemingly conspires and culminates together. I know I have had this. Just know that you move on to greater things and the less time you spend on all this bad, the earlier the greater things come.
O boy. I am not writing for anyone to enjoy or even read this. But this is the only place I am socially active on a daily basis. I kinda feel secure here. Last Tuesday I lost my job ( well I quit, but I did not like it and they were treating me poorly). Wednesday I lost my car. It stopped in the middle of the freeway. I managed to take it home after 3 hours ( the normal ride is about 5 minutes top ). Thursday I lost my phone. If you are addicted to mobile IM and push email, then loosing your phone is like loosing your ability to breath and now you must live with a tube stuck in your throat. Friday I lost my girlfriend. O boy. Now that one hurt. Can you imagine seeing someone leave you when you need them the most. My girlfriend knows me more about me than anyone outside my family. I thought she was sweet. I never thought she really loved me, but we had this rule of "no lie" that made it all smooth. She lied to me. Big time. And to make matters worst, I found she did for a long time. O boy. I am not even mad, but I am hurt and unpleasantly surprised. Saturday and Sunday were tough, but I managed. Today, I found out more lies from her. O boy. And today, the one person I called my best friend let me down. I called him and say I needed his help. O boy. "Hang on" he told me, "You will do fine". O boy. I keep wishing that I will wake up soon. I wished this is a dream. Somebody wake me up please before it is too late. Wake me up.
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2007-08-28 01:15:23 UTC
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run4yourlives
do not. I am just letting it out.
rokhayakebe
I'm not jewish, but I've always thought that this parable is a wonderful for times like these when you feel the whole world bearing down on you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Too_Shall_Pass_(Phrase)Hang in there.
O boy. I am not writing for anyone to enjoy or even read this. But this is the only place I am socially active on a daily basis. I kinda feel secure here. Last Tuesday I lost my job ( well I quit, but I did not like it and they were treating me poorly). Wednesday I lost my car. It stopped in the middle of the freeway. I managed to take it home after 3 hours ( the normal ride is about 5 minutes top ). Thursday I lost my phone. If you are addicted to mobile IM and push email, then loosing your phone is like loosing your ability to breath and now you must live with a tube stuck in your throat. Friday I lost my girlfriend. O boy. Now that one hurt. Can you imagine seeing someone leave you when you need them the most. My girlfriend knows me more about me than anyone outside my family. I thought she was sweet. I never thought she really loved me, but we had this rule of "no lie" that made it all smooth. She lied to me. Big time. And to make matters worst, I found she did for a long time. O boy. I am not even mad, but I am hurt and unpleasantly surprised. Saturday and Sunday were tough, but I managed. Today, I found out more lies from her. O boy. And today, the one person I called my best friend let me down. I called him and say I needed his help. O boy. "Hang on" he told me, "You will do fine". O boy. I keep wishing that I will wake up soon. I wished this is a dream. Somebody wake me up please before it is too late. Wake me up.
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2007-08-28 01:19:55 UTC
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alex_c
do not. I am just letting it out.
rokhayakebe
Hang in there. You're the same person you were a week ago. It hurts to find out that someone close to you isn't who you thought they are... but you're still yourself. Hang on to that and you WILL do fine.
O boy. I am not writing for anyone to enjoy or even read this. But this is the only place I am socially active on a daily basis. I kinda feel secure here. Last Tuesday I lost my job ( well I quit, but I did not like it and they were treating me poorly). Wednesday I lost my car. It stopped in the middle of the freeway. I managed to take it home after 3 hours ( the normal ride is about 5 minutes top ). Thursday I lost my phone. If you are addicted to mobile IM and push email, then loosing your phone is like loosing your ability to breath and now you must live with a tube stuck in your throat. Friday I lost my girlfriend. O boy. Now that one hurt. Can you imagine seeing someone leave you when you need them the most. My girlfriend knows me more about me than anyone outside my family. I thought she was sweet. I never thought she really loved me, but we had this rule of "no lie" that made it all smooth. She lied to me. Big time. And to make matters worst, I found she did for a long time. O boy. I am not even mad, but I am hurt and unpleasantly surprised. Saturday and Sunday were tough, but I managed. Today, I found out more lies from her. O boy. And today, the one person I called my best friend let me down. I called him and say I needed his help. O boy. "Hang on" he told me, "You will do fine". O boy. I keep wishing that I will wake up soon. I wished this is a dream. Somebody wake me up please before it is too late. Wake me up.
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2007-08-28 01:23:31 UTC