darinpantley

I'm building Cursor for Manufacturing

It's the natural next step after software. Imagine the token costs though...

The little GitHub icon on the main page adds some useful context:

A satirical startup idea generator that combines trending business models with industry verticals (both sourced from the most recent 10 YC batches).

For anyone wondering: "the deal covers both Namecheap and its sister platform, Spaceship."

Case in point: "Is there a educational discount?" I believe this should say "an educational discount". I wonder if the tool would have caught it.

I changed my email address in ~200 accounts and only had trouble updating a few: BuiltIn, CPUID, Flickr, Kakao, JCrew, Nord, and Steiger.

After I contacted Kakao support, they asked for some documents. Then they called me to verify the details. A day or two later, they updated my online profile with an editable email field, so I was finally able to update my email address.

When I contacted JCrew chat support, they performed the update immediately and emailed me a temporary password from noreply@demandware.net.

Flickr and Steiger were also happy to help. TBD on the others.

So I can't think of any accounts that don't allow an email change either. But you might have to jump through some hoops.

I saw the same behavior in iOS, but switching to the desktop version of the site worked normally.

It's interesting to see where that originated. I can only imagine how many office workers have run into it.

If you press it once then Outlook will forward, but if you press it again then Outlook will find text inside of the email you're forwarding.

I used Win+R for many years until I read: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28598474

Now I use Notepad or Ctrl+Shift+v.

One advantage to using Notepad is that it reveals newlines in your paste data very clearly, so you can select a substring if needed.

I enabled the new rules that support labels and opted into the beta. If you create a new rule that automatically applies a label, you can choose to apply it to "All matching conversations now" or "New matching messages on arrival."

I'm seeing the same behavior in Chrome on OSX.

If their editor uses a 3440x1440 screen it will look fine to them.

This game doesn't work for me in Firefox or IE... I see a block but it doesn't move and I can't move it. What now?

EDIT: Aha! It only breaks if I enter a Twitter username.

EDIT2: Nevermind. It stops working after awhile. The score moves, but I see no new pieces.

They have an automated system for this. If your account is flagged they don't talk to you about it for legal reasons.

What would a 'Church Management System' do? Have you been to http://www.monkdevelopment.com ?

A large number of HN users are based in Silicon Valley and the surrounding area, which is well known for being largely non-religious. That said, I am a software engineer who is a Christian and spent last summer in the Bay Area, so don't let statistics discourage you. I met plenty of other Christian software engineers while I was out there. Most of them have full-time jobs at well-known tech companies. I don't know if any of them use HN.

Depending on how many software engineers are in your area, it may be more efficient to ask people at church if they are entrepreneurial software engineers than to ask HN users if they are Christians.

Ah, good catch sparky, you're right. The way I wrote that made no sense. Here's what I meant to say:

"Entrepreneurs are risk-takers that try new things. The successful ones minimize risk by making calculated decisions that make sense."

I agree.

Some people who would have made excellent entrepreneurs will never become one because their existing lives are satisfactory. However, they may still develop many of the same skills as an entrepreneur while rising up through the ranks of a corporation, which puts them in an excellent position to write business literature.

Others will never become one because their lives are hard and making the jump to starting a business would only make them harder.

For everyone else in the murky middle, the question remains. "Should I become an entrepreneur?" And if the answer is 'yes', falsestprophet's question follows: "Will I become an entrepreneur?"

Entrepreneurs are people who are risk-averse enough to try something new. The successful ones minimize risk by making calculated decisions that make sense.

Every entrepreneur has a unique story to tell, but not so unique that you can't imagine yourself fitting in to the stories of some entrepreneurs.

What if one of your fans created a simple bot specifically designed to answer your admittedly easy questions?

If you do not turn off the notifications, your inbox will look like mine: http://i.imgur.com/RKQ9y.png

I was away from my computer for the past couple hours and came back to 154+ emails. Time to "Edit Notifications"...

I'm sure they have more features planned.

Even if you have to go through the arduous task of typing a website into your browser's address bar to get from YouTube to eBay, it's still a fraction of the effort required to get from Ace Hardware to Target, no matter how close the stores are situated to each other. The Internet doesn't need a one-stop shop as badly as "real life".

If that was THE website to go to for all of the services they offer, saving a couple seconds of typing might be advantageous. But they're not. Why should people switch? It's not particularly superior, as far as I can tell.

I applaud the effort, but will most likely never use it, and I doubt I'm alone.

At the end of the day, a "true entrepreneur" is someone who builds a business.

If people like bad media, does that make it good? Or do we just have poor taste?

"Good" seems to be a combination of "quality" and "entertaining". Funny how we talk about these bad books, movies, and other media as if their literal quality were their only value.

Yes! I knew I heard this idea somewhere before...

I like games. Lots of people do. But it's always the innovative, creative, never-been-done-before games that are the most fun. The common games can be addicting, but I wouldn't necessarily say satisfying.

The concept of corporations designing games for people to play sounds like a more organized and centralized version of what they are already doing. My credit cards give me points, the local Japanese fast food restaurant has a frequent buyer program, and grocery stores give me discounts if I agree to give up information about what I eat.

In general, I don't like these games. I am not going to alter my spending habits just to get 250 more BankPoints. If they give me points anyways, I will of course cash them in, but I don't like the feeling of being manipulated by large corporations via a game.

On the other hand, the companies seem to love it. I haven't seen any data, but considering how popular these 'games' are, they must work. And if they work by themselves, imagine how much better they will work when they're consolidated into a a website, which catches on like a fad and all the cool kids use it. Once the cool factor wears off, the industry has already been transformed to run all games on the defacto gaming website (SCVNGR in this case). So there's really no down-side for companies, and customers will think they're getting even better deals than they used to, because now it's just so easy to play games -- rack up points, earn achievements, get discounts.

I don't look forward to the days foretold by Jesse Schell, but it feels inevitable. The people who like playing corporate consumerism games today will be thrilled to take it to the next level on a popular website where companies are constantly trying to drum up more 'fun' (spend more, save more). I'll try it out, like I try out most new tech, but I'm not expecting to have much fun.

At least we know Seth Priebatsch will be having fun.

As a long-time user of the Up button, I completely agree.

With the new system, the parent button (i.e. "Up", as NumberFiveAlive pointed out) is always in a different location, labeled with different text. How confusing! Microsoft replaced the notion of "I want to go up" with "I want to open folder X". Great for new users, not great for me.

The new system makes a lot of sense for people who don't understand nested file-systems and just want to open Folder X... "oh look, there it is, click". Also, the old Up button doesn't make a lot of sense in the context of a hierarchy laid out horizontally, so I can see why Microsoft would want to revamp their interface.

For those of us who do understand that directories contain other directories, the option to enable the Up button again would be a welcome "new" addition to the address bar. Sometimes it's more convenient to click on a button than to reach for a hotkey.

Backspace takes you "Back". If you open C:\ and then click on Downloads, pressing Backspace will take you to C:\ and pressing Alt-Up will take you to C:\Users\YourUserName. Of course, if you are currently in C:\ and open the Windows folder, pressing either Alt-Up or Backspace will open C:\ again.

If you do this, be sure to include a legend that explains what the colors mean.

Also, if you can switch the {yellow-orange, orange-yellow} color scheme to something more easily differentiable, that would be a nice touch too.

Every time he talks to people, he's exercising the linkbait strategy. If it works online, why not offline? Salesmen already know this. Do startup entrepreneurs? When people are listening and understanding, they're ready to be converted into satisfied users and/or customers.

Linkbait is slightly slimy, but it's also a proven success strategy.

No. 0: Communicate Clearly and Effectively

Branson omits the unspoken secret to business success: good communication skills. He succeeded in business because he learned the art of getting his points across clearly and efficiently. True, the advice in his article is rather general, but that's also its beauty. It's easier to agree with a simple point than it is to agree with a complex composition of points. The point being, it's usually best to get people to agree with you to accomplish anything.

Simple ideas are quickly understood most clearly. Reading through the article, I couldn't help but notice how efficiently Branson gets his points across. I suspect this same approach serves him well in business, convincing partners to sign deals, customers to buy products, and employees to continue doing a great job.