alexwestholm

I'd encourage you to play around with Obj-C a little more before writing it off. It's actually a pretty simple, compact and concise language once you dig into it. Apple's APIs, on the other hand... :facepalm:

That's a phenomenal idea! Thanks!

And re: your post below, yeah, try the cache - I just added a feauture called "Testing validations" with no problem.

Yeah, it's an option given to project owners if signed in. The fix has been pushed.

Ah, the reason I couldn't reproduce was that I was logged in. Pushing a fix momentarily. Thanks for finding that!

Thanks for the tips! I probably could have picked a better day to release this - RIP Dennis Ritchie! I'll probably follow your suggestions at some point next week.

Can you fill me in on where this happened and what your input was? I'm not able to replicate your problem. The input for the number of days/months/years should be numeric, which I should probably not there somehow. Is that your problem?

Wow awesome explanation - about 6 years ago while hacking gtk+ and Mozilla I used those instructions to hack into the main event loop to get gtk+ embedding gecko 1.7 and had no idea that those my perceived hacks where actually some what valid method for doing what I needed to do - modify how window events from gecko where propagated to gtk+ event loop and vice versa. I think that my bug report is probably still open and might even be worth revisiting if anyone is still interested in gtk+ with Mozilla embedded - would likely need to make lots of changes... Latest gecko is 1.9?? Anyways awesome explanation

I thunk his point is - he's wasting his breath talkin about it

How much of the revenue comes from IE6 browsers? If it's more than the cost support it/ less drop it... My guess, it's less revenue then cost and that by this time next year we can say the same for IE7.

Sorry but what a bunch of crap... Privacy people are so annoying... If your concerned about this kind of tracking stop using online porn - otherwise As you were

I'll second the recommendation for Scooby. He's a little strange, perhaps, but his methods are effective and he's got a high signal/noise ratio.

http://www.scoobysworkshop.com/

"Consequently, this means that you will receive no value in respect of any of the shares underlying your Options."

I don't really see how that's ambiguous... I mean, I think Skype and their investors have behaved like total assholes, but the guy did sign a contract which explicitly told him what would happen.

The trend of focused education has arisen in tandem with ever increasing numbers of people entering the workforce. In that light, it's hard to argue that specialization isn't hard - not only is it difficult to train people to be generalists, it's also difficult to hire them, and why bother if you're just looking for a disposable entry level warm-body? The kind of general savvy required to interact well with across disciplines isn't that hard to cultivate, and many top schools do, but it's probably not feasible for the sort that attend trade schools like the one mentioned.

Not only would this be a strained approach for most students at such a school, but it would detract from the number one goal of trade schools: providing students with skills that can immediately secure a job. As mentioned earlier, generalists are more difficult to hire... giving a solid credential indicating that someone has base level design skills is much easier for the graduate to sell than "Sure, I can do design a fabric for you. Then I can market it and set up logistical channels to get worldwide distribution and ... all based on my time at X university!"

Maybe so. In my comment I noted that retailer issues are a far better criticism of Groupon... The OPs analysis is focused far more on consumer issues, which I think is an inaccurate view of what's going on.

"Groupon and other group-buying services let consumers eat their cake and have it too." To me, that doesn't sound like something consumers are going to abandon very quickly. The notion that collective buying will somehow fade in the eyes of users strikes me as pretty odd - it's a flat out better way to buy, and groupon does a great job of getting worthwhile products to consumers at deep discounts.

Of the points you mention, I think Groupon's greatest worry is probably that retailers may not make the margins they'd like when using it. But even that's a difficult complaint to make work - fundamentally retailers compete with one another and Groupon is a great tool to leapfrog your competition, even if just for a temporary period.

School is about indoctrinating certain ways of thinking, not teaching the specifics. I've done a CS degree (admittedly at a crap school), an MBA and am about to finish a law degree (at a non-crap school) and none of these bear direct relevance to what's out in the field. Indeed, part of the reason I put myself through the agony of so much higher ed is to gain experience thinking in different paradigms, not merely so that I can now write an algorithmic description of the rule against perpetuities.

With that in mind, and having written code for both startups and large companies, I don't think that CS programs are generally all that much like the real world in either situation (unless of course you're talking about somewhere like PARC). You're absolutely correct that learning to "build cool stuff" is pretty important, but I think it's equally important for larger companies, so I'd say that's more of criticism of CS in general than a failure to prepare people for startups.

Interesting that they're targeting the $1-4 million range for the early stage fund. Sure, there's not much investment in that range, but perhaps there's a reason... it would seem like that's the range where most companies are sorting themselves out and determining whether they're actually going to succeed or not. Pouring money into companies to artificially help them to bridge this gap may be a disservice to the companies and a poor investment.

Decoupling criminal, crime and consequence is truly a scary proposition. It's pretty obvious that lowering the risk and emotional consequences of committing a crime makes it a lot easier to commit to committing. Just look at Anonymous.

Totally agree. Do you think PG's popularity is indicative of a rise in newcomers to the startup scene?

An interesting read for anyone contemplating taking money. Shameless plug: if you find this confusing, I posted a thread on Sunday that provides a good way for founders to broaden their legal knowledge. Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110713

MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/#electrical-engineering-and-compu...

An overly optimistic valuation can also lead to a down round later on. I'd recommend this as further reading: http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/asymmetric-risk-and-the...

The project seems to be dead these days, but if you're interested in writing OSes, take a look at the Flux OSKit:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/

OSKit aims to be a set of libraries that dramatically lower the barrier to entry on OS development.

At first, I though "Man, this sounds like a recipe for technical debt" but then I realized I'm guilty of exactly what you're talking about. In fact, I was browsing hacker news as a break from googling the best way to implement a feature that I could do in 10 minutes if I weren't concerned about having it perfect from the get-go.

I recently realized that I code slower than I used to. I assumed this was because I stopped hacking for a few years during law school, but now I think it has more to do with being immersed in a risk-averse perfectionist environment that leads to exactly the kind of timidity you're talking about. This may be one of the more valuable insights I've gotten from hacker news in a while. Thanks!

Thanks for reading it, and best of luck on your project!

While I get your point about volatility, I'm not so sure I agree with the idea that large companies ought to have absolute control over who owns their shares. That's fundamentally contrary to the idea of open markets, and sets up too much potential for abuse. It's not hard to envision a marketplace where pervasive use of this technique concentrates wealth even further than it already is.

The article notes that solitude should be balanced with participation and awareness of one's space. Upon reading that, I realized that's why sites like HN are so valuable to me: I get both without much hassle.

Why not do this stuff pre-emptively? I understand that moving content out to a CDN when it's not necessary might not be the smartest plan, but shouldn't most sites be optimizing the number of apache procs as a rule of thumb?

Certainly not an exhaustive list, but: 1) Open source, even if you're only helping find bugs 2) Launch something 3) Blog your expertise 4) Volunteer tech projects

I had no idea that Myspace had relaunched as a media hub 6 weeks ago. Not that my own awareness is really a solid metric, but I am a relatively trend aware 20 something. That should say something to Myspace.