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Ludic is more of a concept game.

How would collusion work in Ambition?

I tend to agree that neither would make a good tournament game. Ludic for the reason stated above; if you're going to introduce something "second-order" as a game variable, you need to contain it. Ambition because it's a 4-player game without teams, and most of the tournament games tend to be either 2-party (Chess, Go, or Bridge, the latter being a contest between two teams) or have a 1-vs.-N flavor like Poker.

Ambition seems to have the Puerto Rico property of being very solid against certain kinds of annoying luck, but having a strong table-position element.
Hm. North Korea has Red Star Linux. South Korea is a Windows monoculture.

Even Steve Ballmer's worldview is right once in a while.
Using virtualization has a lot of benefits even when you have just one virtual instance. In your example, the real overkill is VMware, not virtualization per se!

Instead, kernel-based virtualization such as BSD Jails, Linux-VServer or OpenVZ is the right approach. This type of virtualization comes without any performance penalties! And by using hard links, you can avoid wasting disk space, too.

The benefits are better hardware abstraction, i.e. easier movement to other machines, improved backup possibilities, etc. In fact, the BSD manual recommends the usage of jails for years, if not decades.

I'd say that this kind of virtualization is still underused, while inappropriate kinds of virtualization start to become overused. Maybe this is due to "successful" marketing of VMware. They promote the right techniques, but the wrong technology.
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Definitely a good thing if they start opening up more and start engaging with skeptics in debates instead of just appealing to authority.

But the true reason no one will believe their claims till it's too late is that they have no good solutions other than pushing us to the dark ages in terms of energy consumption.

IMO climate scientists should also start thinking about solutions to the climate problem (even if its not exactly their field). We could definitely use more people thinking about solutions rather than just describing the problem or its extent.
We were also planning to introduce an affiliate program for CurdBee, which also had very similar flow to your context (with delayed tracking). Existing apps were no match for this need and we decided this is something worth to be addressed from the scratch.

Initially we'll try integrating it with CurdBee. Then, we hope to release this to public use. We'll publish more details on the release in our blog.
Vindictive probably isn't the right word for it, but you seem to feel excessively upset about this, given how many comments you've written on the subject.

It seems like you convinced yourself you were naturally entitled to work there, and are having a hard time dealing with the cognitive dissonance of not even getting an in-office interview. Even wanting to be told why you weren't hired seems to imply a sense of entitlement on your part. To be fair, Joel spends a lot of words in his blog trying to make programmers feel entitled to special treatment (because then we'll apply to work at his awesome company which pampers us). So I can understand the emotions involved here, I just think you need to be a little more critical about how you're responding to this.

Getting turned down by a company with 32 employees and yet hundreds of applicants for each open position is to be expected, frankly. At those scales, I don't think they can afford the time it takes to tell everyone why they were rejected.
I reread the article, it is that good. However, one moment does seem extremely unusual.

How does one go from being active on investment forums to securing a few million from very experienced investors.

It is one of those one in billion occurences. I am sure Mike Burry would have done alright even without it, but still there must be more to the story.

Hopefully, full book goes into more detail.
> But the true reason no one will believe their claims till it's too late is that they have no good solutions other than pushing us to the dark ages in terms of energy consumption.

That may be true of some environmentalists, but certainly not all. For instance, a much greater number now support building new nuclear plants, as a lesser evil when compared to oil and coal.
I am really envious of the "Y Combinator Experience". Is there any way to get introductions to the various connections, go to the mentioned startup meetups (we are located in San Francisco), and get some friendly advice, without giving up equity?

I don't want to give up 5-10% of my company and the ~$10k would not make a difference, however I would love to be more involved in the community, and am particularly jealous of this paragraph:

"When you’re accepted into Y Combinator you are part of a community of 172 startups, that take every opportunity to help one another. Being part of this community is invaluable. Six months after our session of Y Combinator ended, the founders of S09 regularly meet, and I would consider us a close group of friends."

Is there any way for a non-YC startup to become an honorary member of this group?
Keep a book in the bathroom. It encourages one to slow down and let nature take its course, and get some education/entertainment at the same time.
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i wish that there were a clearer way for people to profit from this kind of stuff. people generally won't buy information.
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It's a nice idea, but it defeats the idea of using URIs as identifiers. In your example, there are three identifiers for one and the same thing:

http://albumsite.com/albums/1
http://albumsite.com/albums/1/This_Great_Album
http://albumsite.com/albums/1/This_Great_cd

If the latter two URLs were redirections to the first one, that issue would be fixed. But then the human readable parts wouldn't appear in the browser's URL line anymore.
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"even Ruby's creators, who are extremely bright people"

There's a hidden "it turns out that" in this sentence.
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>Most people that push RDBMS solutions try to shoehorn an RDBMS for every possible scenario.

I don't think that's true for well-informed developers in a space where NoSQL is acceptable.

It might be true generally only in the sense that most developers don't know or care about NoSQL and don't like the idea of learning something new. That's to be expected; most of these guys will never leave .NET/Java and the blessed toolkits associated with each. They are corporate programmers and they don't really count.

A well-informed person might make some good social arguments against NoSQL adoption, like the lack of experienced available developers, or the relative immaturity of the respective codebase, or other issues that surround emerging platforms. These arguments will sometimes hold merit.

Otherwise, I don't know why one would be averse to the implementation of a "NoSQL" datastore for information like logs. I know that I've always having logs in the relational db.

I haven't met many experienced, decent developers who shun NoSQL when there is a good technical and environmental atmosphere for its implementation. I don't think it's a widespread thing.
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I really don't think you should advise someone to read "_why's poignant guide to ruby" as an introductory text. The sillyness is very distracting, the humor doesn't suit everyone, it's not very well structured and the information density is quite low. I feel there's a ready chance it will be demotivating. I definitely didn't consider it a decent introduction to Ruby or programming. </heresy>
I think a lot of us are still on first generation Android devices. I use the emulator to make sure everything runs smoothly at higher resolutions and on newer releases of Android, but such details simply don't get as much attention since I don't interact with them day-to-day. I'm sure that when my Nexus or Droid comes, I'll focus more on those little details.

So this is a way of ensuring that the most popular apps work beautifully on the flagship phones, as well as creating some positive publicity and developer goodwill.

And of course, I'm delighted. I thought I had another 18 months to wait before I would get a better phone.
Alternatively, what might be some key ways of creating that camaraderie and supportive network outside of the YC experience? I imagine a sense of achievement or difficulty (in it being challenging to gain entrance) might take a group beyond "regular meet-up" status?
the video is cool and all but does anyone like the music? seems to get lost to me... i guess it's really not about the music though. not one comment before mine even mentioned it...

again awesome video but it's going to be hard for them to keep topping themselves but now it's their MO
I went through cmu miserable. It's fine, suffering brings out the best in me. But I like that poem, and the thought that someone actually jumped does not ruin it for me. To jump is to escape, and that poem is a sweet reminder that you have that right.
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Google also kept the RPC side of Protocol Buffers, which is called Stubby, as an internal project.
If I'm not mistaken he spits 8 bars of perfect English gibberish. So that's what we sound like to foreigners.
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That's also Cornell's Facebook group

"Cornell University, where your best hasn't been good enough since 1868"
My opinion is that nuclear is a non-starter due to the weight of regulations surrounding it and its capital intensive nature. We need to see radical game-changers which cannot happen in such an environment.

The recent news on the Bloom boxes has me quite hopeful however.
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I'm not blaming anyone. I'm just pointing out that in a financial system where shit like this happens over and over again, i.e. hard working people entrust their money to money managers/investors (cough heartless gamblers cough) to invest wisely so the economy overall can prosper from the capital infusion and so the people investing in the future can have a future but they only live long enough to see all their savings vanish, is fundamentally broken and needs to be fixed.
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I'm applying for the first time. I learned about YC in the summer of 07, the summer after my first year in university. At the time, I didn't really understand what YC did, but I sent the application link to my partner Andy to check out for fun. He remarked, in an email I still have: "they only fund <20k not really worth it." LOL.

At that time, we were two 19 year olds who had sunk $22k of our own money into a project which we thought was the next big thing. Of course, it wasn't. But we learned some harsh, important lessons and moved on to build other projects as if nothing ever happened.

A couple years later, we're 21 and stumble across Paul Graham's essays. They all made sense, and the lessons he preached were exactly the types of lessons we learned in failure. But particularly one essay presented an important new idea we hadn't thought about. It was the one about startup hubs and how important it is to be in the valley. I remember shooting up a message over MSN with Andy about moving to the valley. I think he was hesitant, but quickly realized we had nothing to lose; if we failed and went back home, we were the same as the rest of our graduated friends, broke and living with our parents.

So it was settled. We'd try to get into YC when we were done with school. If we couldn't, we'd build our own startup anyway. I always knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur.

I graduated last summer, and Andy is finishing his term in May. We're now 22 years old and applying to Y Combinator S10.
If I could have a "dream job" just handed to me, it would be to work at Wieden + Kennedy.
Recently I've researched all NoSQL databases(grpaph oriented to be precise). We're building a project which I think fits best in NoSQL solution.
And I did not find any suitable solution.
Either it doesn't a have client api(we're using .NET) other then REST or plain TCP/IP (and of course I don't have time to create my own API)
Either this is just some project more like a school homework.

Do you seriously believe that you can rely your business solution which will run across dozen of PCs on someones experiment?
That's like saying don't be mad at the guy holding the gun and pulling the trigger, be mad at the guy that made the gun. I refuse to reduce people to simple automatons responding to incentives created by those in a more powerful position.
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Another problem is deployment, if I adopt some RDBMS system to my needs, then I already have a bunch of web hostings supporting this type of DB or I can use installer to deploy the DB, run a few scripts and everything is ready to run.
After completing Portal I've been looking for a similar-quality game for a while. Braid was decent, but I'm very excited about what Valve is cooking up with a Portal sequel.
I really don't think theres any way to replicate the Y Combinator experience without being apart of YC.

If you want introductions and advice, you need an angel with a background similar to PG (made money in tech, invests in startups).

The reason the alumni are so close is because they all go through something very hard together. I don't think YC was planning for such a supportive alumni network, rather, its just the magic that follows when something special is created.
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And you should edit the URL to point to the top of the page, and NOT comment number 62
Everybody lies.

Someone does it better though. If you're a CEO or just some person who manages resources and is responsible for project completion - you will lie!

It's just better that way. Your employee doesn't need to know all the details, so he/she could concentrate on his work and client/employer doesn't need to know all the details so he didn't do any stupid things.
Anyway you're responsible for a result, if it includes lying all the way ,then so be it.
I thought his example really telling.

Say that his internal help ticket tracking system was built for IBM, one of the largest corporations out there with 300,000 employees. 300k users is tiny for a consumer app. We had more than that when I was volunteering for a Harry Potter fanfiction website. Even if he was working at the largest company on earth by employee count (Wal-Mart), he'd still have fewer users than we had for Harry Potter fanfiction. And usually employees don't submit more than one or two help tickets a day, while Harry Potter fans tend to view a forum thread every minute or so.

It really hits home how consumer data processing has changed the game for data management. When I was working in the financial industry, we dealt with about 50GB of data/day coming off the exchanges. I thought that was a lot. But at Google, there's terabytes per day - at least two orders of magnitude more - and the total volume of financial transactions is basically rounding error on the data we handle.

It makes sense that with this exponential explosion in data, we'd need different techniques to handle it. Quite likely, RDBMSes do scale for the scale he's talking about. But a bunch of industries have opened up within the last ten years that require several orders of magnitude more data, and it's naive to think that just because it works for a corporate help desk or POS system, it'll work for a system that logs every page view and every action for millions of users.
Nope, you went one too far.
Fully agree. I will probably buy it and play with it for a couple of hours, and then forget all about it.
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Was anybody else dumbstruck by the article's first comment by this bright chap, "Jeff"?

Brilliant. I've forwarded this to my team.

We make a tax solution and I've been dealing with vague "we should use NoSQL" comments from a few of the less capable members of the team.

If his team members read all the way to the comments it's going to be very awkward tomorrow at work.
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Thnx.
I don't understand the problem with the client apis. If you're working with .net, you should have access to an xmlhttprequest library. Building and reading xml to talk to a REST api shouldn't require a specific API library. Unless of course you're just looking to avoid that step altogether and would rather just point, click, drag, and drop and get on with it.
I'm tempted to write "Best of luck to all of you who are applying" but I've never really believed in luck so, while it sounds more awkward, "May your applications speak accurately and positively about the extent of your ability to create a successful business."

One wee little suggestion: mentioning your age is a lot like an exclamation point. If you're writing a novel, you get one exclamation point. Maybe two. You don't have to use them if you don't want to, but under absolutely no circumstances do you put three exclamation points in five paragraphs. That just makes the publisher's assistant write you off as unserious.

If you feel the need to bring your age up, have a quick mental conference along the lines of "I wonder if it would be more impressive to delete mention of my age and instead mention something which would suggest that I am likely to create a successful business." My guess is 99 times out of 100 the answer is "Hmm, yep."
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Deployment isn't the issue with these - deployment can be automated just as easily as an RDBMS. Sometimes easier. It's trivial to throw up several instances of MongoDB for example. As for hosting solutions that support this stuff, well, I prefer VPSs that I control to shared hosting with Mysql for anything that's serious.

But you and I appear to have very different needs.
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What I meant was the line I prefaced this statement with: "However, I think most sane entrepreneurs (heh) usually have some background and expertise that will increase their chances of success in their venture."

When I think of "measured risk", I think of investing. Any kind, whether it's buying stocks or VCs investing money in your company. Both actions carry some risk.. much like becoming an entrepreneur carries risk. But in any of these situations you can do some sort of due diligence whether it's knowing the fundamentals of a stock and knowledge of a sector (when buying a stock), looking at metrics/product and understanding an industry (VCs) or having experience and knowledge of a certain sector and having the domain expertise to accomplish your goals (entrepreneurship).
Not hostile, but have been hit on a lot. Someone also once commented that people visited my blog because of my looks rather than my posts about my work. I changed my display picture from a picture of me to something else.
Cool, thanks.

I was kinda just casually writing, I didn't intend on telling a story when I made the post, it kind of just happened lol. I was actually recreating/remembering what happened as I was writing, so I guess I was using age to show how much time passed by.
Uh, that is a bit of a leap...

It seems like every NEXT BIG THING comes in two parts.

1) The provocation: "Throw away design and do everything with testing" - "never use SQL again, just key-values" "Objects are Worthless!"

2) The sensible fall-back position you can use when challenged "Test are useful" - "You might not need full ACID", "We can benefit from shorter inheritance trees"...

I suppose every new idea needs a way to make a splash...
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I couldn't give a damn about giving up equity. If they didn't have a stake in you, then there wouldn't be as much motivation for them to make you succeed, would there? Founders need to be less greedy about this equity thing. It's more about whether your chances of success are amplified enough by what you give up, i.e. Expected Value.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value

If you don't want to give up equity for that little of an amount, and you've got something, then go pitch an angel investor directly. YCombinator is not the end all be all. I think it's important for newbs like us to get our feet wet so we have an idea of how much (or how little) bargaining power we have, and where we stack up against other entrepreneurs. Finally, everything in this world is negotiable. You could apply and work out the numbers with them, and I don't think there's a requirement to accept if you're accepted (correct me if I'm wrong).

What I would envy is not getting into that sort of club. For a moment (however small that moment is), it makes you wonder how you could ever possibly make up for not having that advantage (that being said, lamenting about such a thing is unbecoming of an entrepreneur, and the motto of "be endlessly resourceful").
I agree with this, but I'd add that we developers tend to make an RDBMS do everything because it's what they're familiar with. NoSQL is an alternative to solve a specific problem, but you can't see that problem if you're ignorant of it.

It's like my experience with SVN vs Git. I didn't know how useful and more efficient my workflow would be if I used branches, so I never saw why Git was useful. Sure I could branch in SVN, but it was way more work. I got involved in a project where I had to use git, and I learned how branching works, and now I use it all the time because I understand where it's applicable.

I don't think you have to choose MySQL over MongoDB. I think you could be very happy using both, each for its purpose. You don't always know why you need something until you need it. It's always good to keep an eye on what others are doing.
Well if some of the dumbshits I work with at the White House read this I'll be in trouble too but I don't think that's going to happen.

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Hahaha, french canadian here.
1- your not mistaken
2- I still can't stop laughing. that was laaame!

Even in french, this guy seems to be making words up. He's talking about how much he loves Ramen Noodles.
I wish that people would understand that people who disagree with them are not 'liars' but are instead people who disagree with them.

It is possible to honestly disagree on a technical issue, you know. And it is good professional and personal practice to only accuse someone of lying when you are quite sure that they are deliberately telling you something they know to be false...
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I wonder if they are complying with GPL. The "secret cyber-weapon" can't be so secret if they are also supplying source code, right?

Then again, I'd imagine it would be tough to put legal pressure on the DPRK when the combined diplomatic efforts of the West can't get them to budge....