Ya know, I'm usually a fan of alternative history and "what if" kinds of futurism, but these people can't be serious. A breakup of the United States, let alone one that sees the US divvied up between Canada, China, the European Union and Mexico isn't even remotely possible in the next year or even in the next decade. Even with a 50+ year time horizon you have to be pretty imaginative to come up with a plausible course to a scenario remotely like this--and that's still ridiculously unlikely.
- Also, what does "European Union" even mean here? The EU is composed of individual member states. Is the former US Northeast ruled directly and collectively from Brussels in this scenario? Is that an independent nation that has joined the EU?
The author, and the "analysts" he links to are either trolls or fools. Possibly both.
Kippt does look promising. I have a little bit of a meta-question for you.
Do you have any tips or advice you could share about getting covered on RWW with an early stage app?
Based on a cursory look I think you'll agree that Kippt is an MVP right now. A well polished MVP, but still an MVP, and one that isn't markedly different than (and in some ways you've already called out, somewhat lacking in features compared to) a host of Delicious- and Instapaper-type apps. (I don't intend that to be negative, so I hope you don't take it that way.)
How did you manage to get RWW to cover Kippt at such an early stage?
You're right, Kippt is really in the MVP stage right now while you could consider it as our second MVP: We originally build Kippt over 1 year ago during one day for Forrst App Contest (http://mykippt.appspot.com/). Today's Kippt was build on weekends during past 1.5 months remotely but we already had a pretty good idea what we wanted to do. While we needed to cut a lot of corners, drop features etc we wanted to have a product we and our loved ones would like to use. So far the feedback has been extremely good, so it's safe to say that pushing the early product was a right decision (also validated many of assumptions).
What comes to the press and RWW: we didn't contact any press outlets. In fact we decided to post Kippt only to HN so that we could get feedback and some users outside our friends. I think Marshall saw the submission or some tweet as he didn't contact us for the article, all the information was taken from our submission and other public sources. So I guess we just lucky but I like to think of it this way: It's always the product that does the selling, not the PR (but fanatic users would also help :)
I hope this clears things out. It has been an exciting day and it's really nice to hear that you liked how Kippt looks (Karri deserves credit for that). I should probably write a blog post about this but if you have anymore question, feel free to shoot me an email (jtlallo and the usual gmail suffix).
It's less that no-one knows who _why is and more that good people everywhere don't bother to try to find out. The community is willing and able to support his preference to remain "anonymous".
I assume with enough Googling around you could figure out his given name, but I've never tried to do it. If you do find out his name or other personal information, please DON'T post it here. This thin veil of anonymity seems to be important to _why, and that's good enough reason for me.
It's kinda like the graffiti artist Banksy. It's not that it is impossible to track him down--he participated in a documentary about him and I think I've heard him interviewed on NPR before--but that those that could readily "out" him are willing to protect his privacy.
I'm not the OP here, but I'm curious if you've never heard the idiom or the if the idiom just rubs you the wrong way.
> Replace god in this expression by gays, Allah, children, science, music, bits or whatever
That's just it, "for the love of X" doesn't really get a rise out of me for any value of X.
A less common variation of the idiom is "for the love of Mike", which I think points out how arbitrary the object one's affection is in this expression.
> And it doesn't provide any useful and constructive information to the main point.
Without commenting on whether the use was appropriate in this case (frankly I don't have much of an opinion either way), usually that expression is just a way of underscoring the importance of the part that comes after it. For example:
I know that. But God is not X. It is not a question of native language but culture. I'm worried that it might completely miss the message with people of different culture. Would it refer to Allah and some people, probably many in the USA, would suspect him to be a terrorist and hate him for using publicly such reference.
I'm not of any strongly polarized culture. I'm just sensitive to respect people of different cultures. Some of them may consider reference to God as offending.
I don't want to give more importance to this than it deserve. This thread is turning Reddit like and reaches the opposite result I wished. I just wanted to draw attention to it and if some people did, than it was worth the loss of the karma points.
When people say "It is raining cats and dogs," I am afraid they will get the message that harm is coming to innocent animals. We must, for the love of dogs, stop this type of communication at once.
The importance of being able to actually reach potential customers, and how to do so profitably (ie. cost of acquisition).
No matter how well you can covert or how sticky your product is, you need to be able to get to them first. Most hackers I know (and the old me too) think SEO, SEM, display ads and maybe viral/WOM have this pretty well covered. Not every customer is easily reached via search keywords.
I have an ASUS (my second in the EEE line) with exactly the same keyboard. You get used to it, or at least I did. I actually think the chicklet-style keyboards on recent EEEs are among the best laptop keyboards I've used. A much bigger problem for me is accidently hitting the touchpad while typing. Depending on your OS there is usually a way to disable the touchpad while typing.
On the thickness thing, do they advertise this as being as thin as the Macbook Air? I took that picture more along the lines of "here is the X101 compared to a laptop you're probably familiar with". The optical illusion created by the black plastic is a little sneaky though.
Is there a site with reliable specs for this box? Googling around I've seen different numbers (e.g, a 16GB SSD vs. a 64GB SSD). What's the battery life? That's what appeals to me most about the EEEs.
I'm not sure I understand what it would mean for this to be "a hoax". Someone made and released it, right? I thought the point of Anonymous is that it is not a specific organization or group. Whoever made this video could claim to speak for Anonymous as much as the guys that hacked HB Gary, right?
Is it widely known/suspected that the various hacks and messages that have been attributed to Anonymous are from the same group of people?
EDIT: Ha. Great minds think alike. I see Xuzz was posting precisely the same idea as I was typing this.
There are less than 20 people active in the hacking escapades that get attributed to Anonymous. There are less than 100 people who actively engage in DDoS and the few fools who join in straight from home have mostly been arrested.
The fairy-dream of an anonymous active online collective with no discernible membership is simply a joke. The lengths AnonOps goes to keep up the image is pretty hilarious. Crafting figures like Kayla, a cyberpunk teen hacker chic (actually Xyrix, who's been forced to remake himself after getting owned by zf0 in 2008[1]. they're lucky zf0 were merciful and did not dox them). Creating new group names with new narratives like Lulzsec with theme songs and such.
Let me save the typing for those who will argue "but n0ez, Anonymous is Legion and every1!!11!". Anonymous was everyone. Now the name has been hijacked by a small group that uses tools online from places like Reddit to cheer them on but not actually do anything. Hijacked similar to the way the Tea Party was hijacked by the current crop that show up Tea Party rallies.
I'm high on the introversion scale (and work from home, the cafe, etc. with some regularity) but I agree with the grandparent post. I like having a space dedicated to work and the ability to collaborate with my coworkers in person.
While it seems self-evident that a willingness to plow thru obstacles is a good trait for entrepreneurs to have, I think the specific example selected for the article is a poor choice. I have a word for the kind of person that would voluntarily attend and then disturb the religious observances of dozens of people because of a minor, fleeting, personal inconvenience, but it isn't "entrepreneur".
Bulldozing through a velvet rope to gain entrance to a club or restaurant is one thing. Bulldozing through a velvet rope because you were late to the opera or because you want to skip out of rabbi's sermon is another.
(Also, the title is misleading. The point of this article seems to be that there is only one type of entrepreneur.)
- Also, what does "European Union" even mean here? The EU is composed of individual member states. Is the former US Northeast ruled directly and collectively from Brussels in this scenario? Is that an independent nation that has joined the EU?
The author, and the "analysts" he links to are either trolls or fools. Possibly both.