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Dark header is the basis of all suffering

Sometimes the changes are bad

Which is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13619401

In case any first time founders out there are basing some of their own management ideas on this letter, please remember:

"Families and tribes" (a) get by fine without explicit processes because they are small groups, or (b) they do have the processes but they don't need to be written down because they are taught implicitly from birth.

Arguments of the form "We don't need [insert any concept from management text books] because we are smart, technical people" are the flags on areas of your company that will break the worst.

I finally have an answer to the "what's your favorite line of linux source code" question.

This might help bloggers write copy, but it's definitely not good for writers. The first paragraph of Chapter 1 of Robert Hughes' Shock of the New has these stats according to Hemingway:

5 of 12 sentences are hard to read. 2 of 12 sentences are very hard to read. 2 adverbs (he should be aiming for "0 or less"). 0 words or phrases could be simpler*

*this "could be simpler" feature might be a bit ambitious. If you're confident in telling me that the entire text is essentially too complicated, it seems contradictory that at the same time none of it could be made more simple.

So if we name them girlpages will that have the affect of attracting more women into tech?

Even though I rarely answer calls from an unknown number, I wish more Startups used something like this within 24 hours of me signing up instead of the usual follow up email 6 to 12 months later telling me about new features or offering help. By that time I can't even remember why I signed up.

I'm also biased because I love being sold to when the rep is executing her pitch well.

I feel the same - intermittent short (1min) down times happen pretty regularly, about once a month, and I only know that from my own monitoring tools - no emails or notifications from them. I want to love them too :(

I was actually hoping this wasn't an April Fools joke. I hate those tiny qwerty keys.

I'm surprised to read Nasty Gal being seen as a fad - what indicators of stability are stronger than 6 years of consistent growth? Don't fashion fads have a single season 6 month life expectancy?

Me too - Dave.trindall@gmail.com

Has anyone actually gotten this working? I've tried installing on Mac OS X and Ubuntu, both with various problems. The precompiled binaries don't work, the qt build scripts fail, etc. etc.

Is this related to http://www.apifydoc.com/?

Exactly the kind of tools I'm interested in. Thanks.

(I'm DaveT from Chorus)

Technically we're not based in Australia any more.

In Australia we build companies so that we don't have to work for someone else, and we scoff at big ideas.

In the US we build companies to change the world, and we scoff at small ideas.

(from an Aussie who recently made the move to Silicon Valley)

We're quoting you on that!

It takes in anything your customers say in real time (tweets, blogs, surveys, but mainly email)

Then it analyzes all the data, figuring out who's happy, who's unhappy. You can then search the results. Main example: type in a product that your company sells, Chorus will tell you how your customers feel about it, how the feelings are changing over time, and what you need to address now to make your customers more happy.

Couldn't get it to crash with Firefox/Firebug. What OS are you using?

Good point. We edited the title to something less likely to be construed as proving PG wrong.

"boxers or briefs?"

Maybe the Submit Question page was overly ambitious

Awesome question, but probably won't get a great response here because potential answers can't be objectively debated. There are patterns worth observing though: find a handful of people who have achieved similar to what you have in mind, study them, and look for common traits to emulate.

Count clicks on articles.

I've found the title of the article is fairly representative of how much I enjoy reading it. If this is true for others, why try to force us to upvote articles? Just count the clicks and use that as a strong weight in rankings. Is it currently analysed at all?

2nd application, 1st for http://www.chorusindex.com and was invited for an interview

That's what the video is for!

Thanks frossie these guys look interesting

This is cool, and I wanted to sign up, but the page tells me "Field must be between 6 and 120 characters long." even though the password I'm trying to use is 9 chars.

Yes. Continuing the word based analogy, the video is just permutations of "conversation" leading up to it's correct spelling, then more permutations.

If you take the frame that show's the inside of the mask alone, is there a way to prove the image is of a concave object? To see it as convex is arguably 'wrong' but it's a moot point because you're looking at something that is objectively identical to a convex object anyway.

Couldn't I just extend your argument to say the fact that you see a face at the very start of the movie is an illusion? After all it's a mask, not an actual face.

Maybe the fact that I'm the only one mentioning this means I'm a little less intelligent than the rest of us, but...

Isn't a 'real' illusion one that causes you to see something that isn't objectively there? For example, The Grid illusion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_illusion).

If you find an alternative way to create an identical image, then it's forgery, not an illusion.

Put another way, the Grid Illusion is to "worng sleplnig" what the Hollow Mask is to "conversation" (a word in both the English and French languages)