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Maybe I'm not in cafes enough to understand this, but how long are laptop users camping out on tables?

I can see if they're checking a quick email while having a coffee, but experiences I've had and maukdaddy above show that people are camping out a lot longer than that first cup. So are they staying all day? Are they purchasing more beverages?
Actually providing rewards decreases performance in creative problem solving. He actually said that it worked really well ("kicked butt") in getting people to perform simple mechanical skills based tasks.

Besides, the point isn't about increasing performance in situations where people are highly engaged regardless, it's about increasing engagement where motivation can wane, especially in more menial type of tasks/jobs.
The problem with that idea is that eventually people feel entitled to win tokens whether or not they made any achievements. They get so angry at not automatically being given tokens that the government mandates a minimum amount of tokens every employee must win per hour.
To my mind, part of the point was that there's no standard way of importing additional libraries. Many modern languages have some sort of symbolic import statement that instructs the interpreter or compiler to add additional libraries to the execution context, but there's no single way of doing that from within JavaScript. Of course, that somewhat makes sense, as you don't want every random site making cross-domain imports and bypassing same-domain policies. At the same time, as the author demonstrates, you can have an agreed-upon API that provides much of the same functionality using XHR, which would make working with multiple libraries from different vendors a lot nicer.
First read "How To Win Friends and Influence People." If you apply the rules in the book and are at least an average looking guy you should not have any problems finding dates.

Add in some gym time and some pop culture into your daily RSS feeds and you're all set.

When you find a girl you like, slowly introduce your geek side. She'll think it's cute. Plus, nowadays everyone uses computers in one way or another so any geek tendencies are not going to be that big of a stretch to understand.

Really, it's not that hard.
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- First the fuel source would need to be kept at -160C or so, which is difficult, and would be decidedly impressive upon failure.
- Second, one of the reaction products is HF gas. If this doesn't mean anything to you, note that HF gas was the -first- substance covered in the "Things I won't work with" category. "And that soaks into tissue very readily, with the acid part doing its damage along the way, and the fluoride merrily poisoning enzymes and wreaking havoc."
It doesn't matter whether that guy gets ordered around by a short bald guy and would have been in the Paleolithic, too.

I don't disagree with the gist of your point, but I just wanted to observe that male pattern baldness is generally correlated with increased testosterone levels. So in a way it's masculine by definition.
However, empirically we've seen that touching token allocations causes huge amount of resentment and is very, very difficult to do in an elastic manner. Demands of the business can arise in hours or days, token allocation tweaks take years to take effect. We've seen that people will react -- within seconds -- to non-token incentives to do things that certainly resemble work. Blizzard can make a database entry with a few purple pixels attached and wham several million people start doing very repetitive tasks to achieve it. Think of the business value that could be harnessed if a little alert on my dashboard said "Hey Patrick, that funky Mersenne Twister re-implementation that has been in purgatory for the last 12 weeks and is now blocking delivery now is offering purple pixels for unit testing!"

I know you can game any system for rewards -- it has been a near obsession of mine since a kid, when I found that 89.5% is still an A- and that meant I could still miss 3 homework assignments and not suffer any consequences as long as I did really well on the tests. Like was mentioned in the video posted yesterday, everyone knows that grades are a game... its just an unsophisticated game that sucks, but nonetheless seems to converge on education for many people. Grades as a game have always been Pong in a world where Pacman exists... now they're Pong in a world where WoW exists. (Or even where Farmville exists.) Holy cow, we can abuse that better. ("Little Timmy learned 7 * 8 = 56. Ding, Mathematician Level 14! Gratz Timmy!")
Fortunately for us geeks, setting up a proxy is no big deal.
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Vancouver's most popular local chain, JJ Bean, has never adopted wireless and they continue to be massively successful based on the quality of their product. They're rapidly expanding.

Many other notable cafe's such as 49th parallel also don't have any wireless.

I guess it's all up to local culture.
My fault, I don't know why I confused the permit to stay (expires every 2 years) with permanent residence. Well, in Italy you just need a home and revenue to obtain a permit to stay (work related). The permanent residence or permit to stay doesn't lock you to the first job it was issued for, though.

However you can still (with the permit to stay) move between UE countries, just get back to Italy and declare revenue (as entrepreneur).
Or under three months to fill up my VPS' 20 GB allocation for disk storage and cause further attempts by customers to create bingo cards to throw write errors, bringing my business to a crunching halt.

Like I said, yay for logrotate.
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Huh? The idea would be that, for a percentage-of-your-income loan, poorer people would pay back less and richer people would pay back more (compared to a standard loan).
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I often spend all afternoon at various cafes, buying a $2-4 drink every 1-2 hours.

Most people with laptops spend 1-2 hours. You'll get people working longer in the mid morning and mid afternoon. People who show up with laptops at 2 (1:30-2 is a common transition period), for instance, seldom stay past 5/5:30 (another common transition period). 5 or 6 hours tends to be the upper limit; most people can only sit in the same spot for so long. Obviously, it's very rude to this without buying drinks at regular intervals.

At many cafes, people that are ruder about it are almost never regulars. Any cafe that's popular enough to be filled up will have a network of regulars. Regulars chat, share books, go out for drinks and, among the programmer regulars, chat about startups, collaborate on projects or hire one another for contract work. You'd probably not be able to recognize it if you go in and people are all reading and on laptops at the time, but if you start frequenting it you'd start to pick up on it
i'm saying that solving INS processing times by not introducing new visa legislation is a rather ass-backwards perspective.

furthermore, the job creation / economic output benefits don't need to wait for green card processing to be solved.

there's being practical, and then there's simply being defeatist.

i'd rather be part of trying to provide solutions to INS processing times than to wait on innovative solutions to job creation & immigration reform.
I assume the the signature at the end "-Jeff" was Jeff Bezos. If so, that's pretty impressive that the CEO knows so much about technology.
token allocation tweaks take years to take effect

This is mostly a function of a particular method of token allocation, rather than a property of the tokens. There are entire lines of work where the allocation is quite elastic - people who work on commission, people who make a significant part of their income based on performance bonuses, etc. Even at start-ups, in my experience, bonuses for important milestones are not all that uncommon, even if they often are, well, token.
Why couldn't your friend apply in EB-1 or EB-2?
i'm pretty sure that's incorrect, as the existing EB-5 visa allocations have a specific target of 10,000 visas (which are currently not even close to being used up, only ~1,000 are used every year).

if anything, prioritization is likely to work the other way:
EB-1s first, then EB-2s, EB-3s, etc. see language below for EB-1 priority visa workers (with "extraordinary abilities"):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-1_visa

note: i am not an immigration lawyer (IANA[I]L).

you may also wish to review language for the Immigration Act of 1990:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_Act_of_1990
Interesting point. I agree with you in that newspapers take away from interaction.

Laptops, though, can consume people in so many different ways, which makes it harder to approach a conversation with someone. You never know if someone is checking email, doing work, or just social masturbating on Facebook. There is a thicker "invisible social wall" when trying to approach someone with a laptop because you don't want to bother something important, so very few people even try to start a conversation.

When someone's reading a paper, you know they are interested in the day's current news, which makes an easy conversation opener. You know they aren't busy doing their taxes or writing a paper.
Social with each other. Neighborhood social centers, enough so that people care enough to even consider banning laptops.
Standard library = socialism

Many open libraries = capitalism

Since capitalism elucidates turrets in some people, I'll add that what I'm driving at is competition breeds innovation and quality. If one library adds functionality another doesn't have, then it will add it, and in the process, improve on it. Awesome!
The Sophisticate: "The world isn't black and white. No one does pure good or pure bad. It's all gray. Therefore, no one is better than anyone else."

I have often stated and thought that the world to me is not black and white and that indeed no one does pure good or pure bad. But I can't say this view has ever lead me to the conclusion that therefore, no one is better than anyone else.

Turning this issue over in my head, I guess I always just assumed that things being on a grey scale - the operative word being "scale" - that this would surely mean that things existing at different points on that scale could not be considered as all being the same. Interesting to read that apparently this is not the view held by some.

In my personal experience, I find that those whose view is that the world is black and white tend to also be those who wish to impose this view on others. While those who see the world as grey (whether they fall into this trap of the "Fallacy of Gray" or not) tend to be less concerned with converting others to their viewpoint and if anything are more concerned with defending their viewpoint from attacks by the black/white people. I'm not entirely sure what conclusion to reach from this observation... Authoritarians tend to see black and white, while libertarians tend to see grey and sometimes the "Fallacy of Gray" possibly as a defensive overreaction?
Cross-domain is not really an issue here, its quite silly that I can't in JavaScript require one file on my domain from another file in my domain. Instead, people have spent countless hours trying to figure out "the right way" to have interdependent code that doesn't block through a synchronous XHR. Sometimes this has resulted in requiring build tools which turn imports into script tags, etc (which is frustrating for a language that shouldn't require building).

This is why Objective-J has @import:

@import <Foundation/CPSet.j>
@import <AppKit/CPView.j>

alert(CPView);

What's really upsetting is that we're getting the first update to JavaScript in like 10 years, and these fundamental concerns are still not being addressed. Instead of saying "what can give us the next generation of web apps", we've dropped the with keyword. Objective-J was really designed as "man, these features should have been in here ages ago". @import allows you to require code without a build step, without downloading or running twice, and still having it all take place asynchronously so that we don't block on some slow file.
sorry, no free rides... if you fail, you have to start over again.

(that is: you can always start another business, pitch new investors for funding, and re-qualify for the new business. there is no restriction on multiple attempts, however you will have to convince investors you're worth a 2nd chance... or 3rd... or 4th... etc)
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It's true current H1-B is broken or favors the employer. I think a fairly easy fix to that is to not bind H1-B to an employer and let the employee move around within the scope of the visa. This can alleviate some employers who take advantage of H1-B holders.
Network "Solutions".

What a shitty company.
Read the article.

I'm talking about passive income. Every virtual good Zynga creates needs to be made one time and then can be sold many times. It's passive in that sense.

I used subscription models as one example, because I'm most familiar with that, but selling virtual goods and selling themes are also ways of making passive income.
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again, i don't believe you're correct. i'm not aware that existing surplus unused EB-5 visas are used to "help" fill the backlog of EB-2 and EB-3 visas. there appears to be some surplus calculations going on between EB-1, 2, & 3 visas based on EB-1 priorities. i could be wrong; again i'm not an immigration lawyer.

that said, it could be argued there is some priority for immigrants who are helping to create jobs over those who are not. i'm not suggesting that position be used to set priorities in allocating visas, but it's not necessarily unfair that the backlog of some group visas has higher or lower priority than others.

it seems that you have a particular issue with your friend's visa being in backlog and not being approved, and that this is coloring your perspective on all other types of visas.

while i have sympathy for your situation, this is not a rational perspective from which to make an argument for prioritization of visas, imho.
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I have this funny feeling that Joel Spolsky probably does not need to read my blog for advice on effective software marketing. But yes, I approve. Do stuff like this. It works, it is inexpensive, it lasts forever, and your customers will love you for it.

(Though if you're doing it for narrow SEO reasons, I might consider not breaking it into its own domain. Links pointing at it won't help the product rank if the product is on a domain different than the linkbait.)
This is crazysexycool! Only thing that makes me sad is our good digital scopes probably wouldn't work w/ this. Of course, on the other hand, that'd kind of defeat the purpose ;)
> then we don't have to waste money on building and maintaining power transmission lines.

Instead we'd just need to maintain a much larger natural gas infrastructure.
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http://chorewars.com
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Perhaps, we should wait for Yelp to give their side of the story before hanging them a-priori. Perhaps a runaway sales account exec couldn't meet his/her targets and got cheeky.
um, seriously... using the word "piss" is considered crass?

really, you must not read my blog.

i'm being incredibly civil in this discussion compared to my usual white-trash, immature, profane and loutish self.
My shitty uninsulated California house is entirely heated by electricity. Only the water tank is heated by gas.

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the criticism here is largely one-sided and poorly argued by a few such as yourself.

if you must make it zero-sum, then i'm quite willing to face the music in the senate.

so be it: have at thee, gauntlet thrown.
I thought that Google had a system spiritually very close to this where incentives align in a semi-automated manner to encourage people to do what the business needs doing? (For example, they're apparently able to devote huge portions of their development resources to AdWords -- Google's only product that makes an appreciable amount of money -- despite e.g. report generation for AdWords being much less intrinsically sexy than working on their latest, greatest delivery vehicle for the advertising warhead.)

Edit: Yep, found the article I was thinking of: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/09/good-agile-bad-agile...

Search for the word "incentives".
Wow. I agree.

I'm a 21 year old that goes to your regular, univy league college, the University of San Francisco. I would say drive, and the willingness to dream (and take risks) is almost dead among your average Americans who HAVE the skill and talent to develop science and technology.

I've had discussions with my co-Founder about this (we're applying for YC this summer). We believe the American dream has morphed. Everyone is scared in our generation. We're scared of not getting jobs, of not living the cushy lives we thought would be handed to us as kids.

Now, our generation is more than happy to settle for a shitty internship, to settle for ok, to settle for "getting by". It's because we're scared. Scared of what our future holds for us (which no one really knows haha).

Of course, there are exceptions, but I'm speaking about the high school and college segment as a whole. These are my opinions from what I see in talented people I know.
Relaxing doesn't have to mean give everyone a green card. It could mean, I think that's what Tom means, that don't tie it to a set of investors rather tie it to the performance of an individual. Create 10 jobs, make 1MM revenue, get them verified by IRS, you're in the clear.

If we look at H1-B situation, what makes employers abuse it and almost makes H1-B holders useless (for anything other than their current employment) is the tie visa has with the employer. If we make H1-B holders move around freely between jobs then there is less room for abuse. IMHO.
So is this a breakthrough in fuel cell design? Did they discover a completely new way to make fuel cells? Or is this rather a repackaging of existing fuel cell technologies?
so what's your solution? lower the amount?

i think you lose your side of the argument by arguing for any arbitrary amount. i'm happy to argue the merits of what the correct # is, but regardless i think we're just splitting hairs at that point... i've won the discussion.

besides, it's a rather ridiculous amount of hassle in both time & money to raise capital from experienced investors in exchange for hatching some supposedly nefarious scheme to -- wait for it -- hire some low-wage workers.

really, while i fully admit there may be gaming of the system attempted, this supposed workaround is quite a stretch -- it requires the participation of sophisticated investors willing to risk substantial amounts of capital, reputation, effort, and criminal penalty in order to execute.

this doesn't appear to be a rational point worth arguing, you're just being contrarian for the hell of it.
There's obviously room for many cafe structures.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6604801.html

This article goes into some detail about two of my favorite cafes here in Houston. One caters to people looking to work or study and has become a sort-of office for many, not to mention a great place to network among other technology professionals. I'll often work there when I'm sick of the office just because the atmosphere is so nice.

The other is a coffee bar and has the best coffee / espresso in town by far, and though you see the occasional laptop user, they are very rare.

I'm very glad to have both options and frequent them both a couple of times a week.
Wishful thinking. We're always going to have older versions of Internet Explorer that won't support any new JavaScript features.
Neither of those chemicals is particularly dense, and as a bonus HS is incredibly poisonous. Just so you have something to worry about in both propellant tanks.

There are propellants that give you more zing per gram than a gasoline/air mixture, but the improvement is not that great. Gasoline is near the limit of energy density for practical chemical fuels - see http://physics.info/energy-chemical/
again you're missing the point of the investor participation in this equation -- it's unlikely that accredited investors and venture capitalists would risk time, capital, reputation, and criminal penalty to perpetrate such a pointless exercise.

while it's possible, it's not very likely.

we did not draft legislation to cover all possible edge cases, but rather to reasonably address common scenarios.
I tried searching through both the new submissions and through google, and couldn't find anything. I tried :(
Well, I think the smokers are angry because the gov't in some places has stepped in and made it illegal to smoke at any bar. That's quite different than a coffee shops deciding to not allow laptops in their particular store.
Just black out the google page in italy until they overturn it, that will get someone's attention.
It doesn't say who has to compromise it.
please point out the information that supports your conclusion above. i'm not convinced unused EB-5s contribute to solving for other backlogs.

regardless, it's also not the case that all other backlogged visas are of higher priority than new visas. if there is a zero-sum game to be played, priorities could well be reviewed for all types of visas.

your argument for not approving this legislation seems to revolved solely around the backlog issue. there are other better ways to solve that problem than by simply stonewalling all other visa legislation.
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Well, that's not that difficult. Have negative tokens for bugs filed, similar to loss of experience for dying in an RPG.
please... your arguments are circular.

if the new visa class doesn't exist, these folks won't have jobs anyway. now you're claiming we should be worried their jobs might be taken away?

decide which part of the argument you wish to discuss.
Now we know where the $400m went. Getting Colin Powell and the governator to shill for your company must require quite a bit of capital.
I imagine it's because he's a fairly well known tech writer.
So poetry is mentioned in the article quite prominently, and I think I know a little bit about it, so I'd just like to point out a few confounding factors.

1. Many great poets (Keats, Shelley, Byron, Sylvia Plath, etc) died at a young age. Not only did that limit their output at a later age, the resulting aura around death at young ages contributed to their reputation.

2. Other great writers (Shakespeare, Joyce) wrote poetry when they were young, and moved to writing longer works in slightly different forms as they got older. Their later works are even more acclaimed, and are actually "poetic" if not exactly poetry.

There are many, many poets who are critically acclaimed and wrote their best work much later in life. I think point (1) must have dominated this person's research, and makes me suspect his overall point.

I suspect similar factors come into play in science - for example, great scientists most likely end up in administrative positions where they supervisie and mentor younger scientists who write the papers.