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I think the logic is sound. Miracles don't always happen, and anything miraculous deserves at least some suspicion.

The price of real estate has tripled, while the GDP hasn't. Clearly, not all the people can afford the price.
It isn't in Google's long-term interest to do any such thing for its future expansion. Especially with the news of Android on TV's, it would seem that it'll have to cave in to DRM-encumbered technologies in order to play ball with big media.
Can you enlighten us as to how he is making this error?
The last link wasn't a refutation or response to Hare's research, it was a different METHODOLOGY of doing research. I wanted to contrast the _methodology_.

And no, people are NOT born with mental disorders due to environmental factors, they are born with NEUROLOGICAL disorders: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurological_disorders

The two musn't be confused.
Truly disturbing, makes you wonder what other effects of pollution are out there that we won't get to see until it's too late.
I don't think so, I haven't really made any claims about how much of their behavior is situational versus dispositional. I'm just saying that disposition plays some role.
Google doesn't want to kill mozilla. Open standards are good for the web and therefor good for Google. Google explicitly said that they want other browsers to copy the features of chrome because great broswers mean a better web experience for everyone which is good for google. A competitor such as mozilla that embraces open standard is actually a good thing for google, that's the kind of browser competitor they want, not IE.

As for freeing On2 codec, google made it clear on their press release when they bought on2 that having an open video standard was primordial for the web. And again, it's in their interest to make the web the best platform possible, and having a free and open video codec usable by all is a huge part of achieving that goal.

Letting the On2 codec locked in a drawer would be a huge mistake, it would help mpeg4 be the ubiquitous standard making any alternative irrelevant and useless (like vorbis or aac were with mp3, even though vorbis and aac were actually better). If there is any time to make use of On2, it's now and that's by making it open source.
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How do you account for them directly supporting GIF? I'm not disagreeing in principle; but history shows that Mozilla as an organization is capable of picking it's battles and even supporting patent encumbered formats if doing so will make the Web a better place.

Being an employee of a one of the largest online video providers, I can assure you that both we and our customers see multiple encoding formats as a big deal.
Hmm. Unreformable? It doesn't appear so. As the case with the police using reverse psychotic techniques encouraged the perp to brag, we could also find out other techniques that show these types of people how to care. Now, they may not have empathy. Not everyone does in the same degree, but that's ok, as that is what makes us unique.

The interesting research would be to see if there are techniques that would help a psychopath to integrate into society while limiting destructive tendencies. Perhaps others are doing this research, but Ive heard none of it.
Having an open codec doesn't prevent at all using DRM.
Hey Dale, have you seen the footer on this guy's site? (in particular the "Desandro made this")

http://desandro.com/
The Ruby community has taught me so much, it seems the reasonable thing to do. Also, old books tend to go out of print, and then die sad, lonely out-of-date deaths.

Maybe this will keep RBP moving forward, and keep it alive.
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And on a related note, Google's visions come to light quite clearly if you look at what they're focusing on: cloud computing, ultra-high speed connections. They don't want users to have any local storage. They just want to serve ads on all media. Very obvious of course, but it's interesting to see the grand scheme coming together.
Do you think that if you A/B tested your favorite choice from this service that it'd meaningfully change your success?

Probably not, honestly. I'm currently in the process of setting up a graphical A/B test for all my conversion buttons, which I think will majorly move the needle and give me ways to move it in the future. (Tweak button texts, tweak button colors, tweak button orders, etc etc. These are all hard for me in the status quo because I don't have the buttons ready to go, and I have the graphic design ability of a drunken lemur.)

This might not be obvious, but all A/B tests are not created equal in terms of implementation difficulty. The cheapest A/B test is a change to page copy: it is literally one line and done. I started three of them last night, testing microcopy in my shopping cart such as "You do not need an account to pay with a credit card through Paypal."

Buttons are a wee bit harder to A/B test because they're often seen in many pages throughout my site and, stupidly, they're not currently implemented as some sort of render :partial => '/static/easily_replaceable_buttons'. That means it is going to take me a couple hours to get the button tests ready sitewide, and I have to disable page caching to do it.

Yanking my logo is harder still. In addition to being on every page in the site (which means I have to turn off page caching entirely, which is going to require some thought about performance consequences), there are a few places where it is used offsite, for example in the top bar of my Paypal payment pages. Changing logos right at the shopping cart is probably not a great idea. Changing that sucker will require an hour or two of work, for boring technical reasons.
Another article about sociopathy:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/11/the_sociopathic_epide...
I imagine that IPv6 will make blacklisting IP addresses more difficult, as the 65,536 addresses in a /48 network prefix could either belong to one person or an entire organisation, and there are many tunnelling services offering /48 prefixes to anyone, meaning a spammer could easily acquire millions of different addresses.
I recently read a book called "Evil Genes" by Barbara Oakley. One of the interesting stories she tells is about how some of the research into Machiavellian behavior got started.

The original research group decided to focus on "everyday" manipulative, lying, power-hungry behavior. Looking for test subjects, they found plenty of instances, but ended up picking a category of people to study - their own PhD advisors.

The point is, mild versions of psycho/socio-pathic behavior are unfortunately commonplace. Changed my perception of people's behaviors in very fundamental ways.
> 'Psychopathy' was a catch-all category that he is making increasingly more catch-all.

I don't understand this. How is he making a term 'more catch-all' by defining a peer-reviewed checklist that defines what 'psychopathy' actually is? Prior to that it was a term that had no exact or standard meaning. By creating a formal definition, debate can happen as to which parts of the definition are right or wrong, but prior to that serious debate was meaningless since everyone had a different definition.
Captchas are something I was seriously looking at when writing my thesis.

Because I could never find any website which had good examples on how to decode them when I finished I wrote this article http://www.wausita.com/captcha/ which shows from a very low level how to extract text from a picture and then read it.

I post it here because anyone looking at this podcast may find it useful or interesting.
And no, people are NOT born with mental disorders due to environmental factors, they are born with NEUROLOGICAL disorders

What is the difference? At some level, all "mental" (i.e, psychological) disorders are neurological.
"The Psychopathy Checklist consists of a set of forms and a manual that describes in detail how to score a subject in twenty categories that define psychopathy. Is he (or, more rarely, she) glib and superficially charming, callous and without empathy?"

What question springs to my mind is, given that these people have something like their 'appreciate other people's emotions' bits of their brains not working properly, why don't we see many female psychopaths?

Off the top of my brain, I can come up with a few likely answers:
1: Female 'psychopaths' don't exhibit the same sorts of criminal behavior that male psychopaths do.
2: Females are less susceptible to being a 'psychopath'
They have traits similar to ideal leaders. You would expect an ideal leader to be narcissistic, self-centred, dominant, very assertive, maybe to the point of being aggressive.

Is it just me, or would anyone else not follow a person who matched this description?
Well, I have very mixed feelings about this. (I grew up in a multi-generational household.)

A multi-generational home environment means your dinners and weekends are spent with gossiping great-aunts and competing cousins. That tends to push people towards career, social, and consumption choices aimed at placating/impressing the shallowest, most materialistic of their relatives. Doctor, pharmacist, engineer at a big company, etc. You're forever being compared to Auntie So-and-so's son who is already married to a nice girl and drives a bimmer. And what kind of "entrepreneur" do you think you are, you sit alone tinkering with computers after you come home from work, don't you play with computers enough at the office, why don't you open an import company like Uncle So-and-so and under-declare the customs value and make lots of money like that!

Cherry-picked bonus link: Living in intergenerational households triples Japanese womens' risk of heart disease.
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> As the case with the police using reverse psychotic techniques encouraged the perp to brag, we could also find out other techniques that show these types of people how to care.

The conclusion doesn't seem to follow from the premise. Can you fill in some more of the intermediate steps?
Guilty pleasure.
The GIF patents expired while Firefox was still in early development. And it was not the GIF format itself which was patented, but a particular compression algorithm used with it -- decoders, as used in Mozilla, were not patented.

People could (and did) create uncompressed GIFs to avoid the patent risk. For obvious reasons, uncompressed H.264 is not useful.

[1] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html
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I agree with you that the two projects have different philosophies on version control, but I'd like to offer some corrections:

1. Both Mercurial and Git use the same history model; both have DAGs and changesets.

2. The dirstate is an internal format, and it's analogous to Git's index. You are right though, that Git allows you to manage it manually is a big difference from Mercurial.

I think Mercurial tends to be more conservative in what it allows; it discourages history editing, and it tries to be similar to Subversion and CVS in terms of UI. Git, on the other hand, provides all the power user features - like commit amendment, rebasing, and index management - up front.
I think Seattle is one of the top 3-4 cities for startups (in the US).

As far as your criteria go, cost-of-housing etc. is going to be much lesser than SV, but much more than Austin. No state income tax, just a sales tax. Traffic congestion is pretty bad. Business pay 1.5% of total revenue (not profit) as B&O taxes to the state.

Like the other top cities for tech-startups, heavily liberal in terms of politics. I vaguely remember reading some report that said that Seattle had a higher percentage of college-grads than every other major city in America. evergreen forests nearby, "you can ski in the morning and sail in the evening" is how my Microsoft recruiter described Seattle to me in the 90s :)
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Scanning the comments, there's a fair bit of argument about lean vs. cheap and about whether Horowitz is agreeing or disagreeing with the "lean" approach.

Afaik, all he's saying is "it depends". There may be situations e.g., if your competition is cash poor and you are cash rich, where the "fat startup" approach makes sense. It doesn't seem like he's fundamentally arguing for or against "lean" - just that a lean or fat stance only makes sense in specific contexts.
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GIF is a different situation. It was already a well established format before Unisys started enforcing the patent it held on it. The patent was a "submarine" patent, so it was not publically known before the format became widely used. It's also worth pointing out that the GIF fiasco was well underway (1993-1999) before Mozilla ever existed. The Mozilla organization formed in 1998, and was mostly influenced by the vast number of participating Netscape employees until 2002-2003. By 2003 Unisys's patent had expired.

If anything, Mozilla's stance towards H.264 is an attempt to avoid the web ending up in a similar situation it did with GIF, where the format was deeply entrenched before the companies controlling the licensing began asking users to pay license fees. The MPEG-LA's recent announcement that internet streaming would remain free until 2015 is a direct attempt to achieve further entrenchment of the format. There is a very real possibility that they will ask for licensing fees come 2015. And we have no idea how much they might cost. Even with free streaming, most of the people in the video production chain need to pay license fees to the MPEG-LA right now.
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hey, yeh his site is pretty awesome, particularly the opera logo in css3 and the css fonts.

I coded this thing quickly because someone asked how http://sxsw.beercamp.com/ worked, another pretty cool css3 example, it didnt take particularly long time although im sure the maths is a bit off.

Ill try and turn it into a generator at some point so you can pick styles / angles etc and just copy the html / css.
The Mozilla appsuite was released as a 1.0 product in 2002
Firefox was released as a 1.0 product in 2004

The last GIF patents expired in 2006 (the first, in 2003 after the 1.0 version of the Mozilla App Suite)
They're missing the most important characteristic from that list: charisma. These natural leaders (who may be psychopaths/sociopaths) have a way of drawing people to themselves and making people like them and follow them in a way that makes them ignore all the things in that list.
I don't think it's fair to blame Google here -- after all, Chrome supports Theora and Vorbis natively. If they want to pay for licenses, that's their decision.

The problem is when a browser doesn't support Theora/Vorbis at all, such as Safari or current news regarding IE9. I'm personally hoping that the released version of IE9 will support Theora/Vorbis -- very unlikely, but a man can dream.
": the idea of Silicon Valley has spread so far that it's now seen as the way for technology people to get rich. Hence, the industry is flooded with technology people. So, if there's type of startup 1), which focuses more on pure technical skill, and type of startup 2), which focuses more on social skills and deal-making ability, it's probably going to be a lot harder to make money doing type of startup 1), because there's so much more competition. Hence, the most successful people tend to be people like Sam Altman, who is a good programmer, but who also does "businessy" things that a lot of hackers wouldn't like, like doing deals with cell phone company executives."

All of which has nothing to do with an elite MBA. Does Sam Altman have an elite MBA? let's check

From Wikipedia

"Loopt was founded during Altman's sophomore year at Stanford University[2] where he studied computer science with a focus on security and machine learning. He helped build an autonomous helicopter navigation system."

Doesn't look like he was one of the people who would be happy taking business classes. Skills other than hacking may indeed be the future of becoming an X millionaire, but these hardly correlate to having "elite MBA" s which was what the first portion of your post was about (not to mention the title).

You ask,
"What you really want to look at is what things are causing people to become successful, right at this moment. How does technology stack up?"

Better than having and "elite MBA" The ability to write code and understand customers , much more so than having an "elite mba".

An "elite mba" probably helps you become a business consultant or something corporat-ey more than become an entrepreneur building multi million dollar startups, which was the point of the portion of PG's essay you extracted. You set out to debunk it and didn't do so at all.
I'm so glad the patent system is spurring creativity and innovation.
Looking further, there were no patents on GIF decoders (from < http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html >). So Mozilla was completely in the clear.
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"All of which has nothing to do with an elite MBA. Does Sam Altman have an elite MBA?"

Of course not. What I was saying was: suppose you accept that an MBA is more likely to make you a billionaire than going into technology startups, but you don't want to get an MBA because you wouldn't like it, and you're fine with the comparatively lower returns in the startup industry. In which case, I argue that you still shouldn't focus on programming skills (which was Paul Graham's suggestion), because other skills will probably help you more. This does assume that you are already a good programmer to begin with.

"The answer is still, the ability to write code and understand customers, much more so than having an "elite mba". An "elite mba" probably helps you become a business consultant or something corporatey."

I was talking about the world in general, not just the startup world. Being a partner at a management consulting firm and making seven figures is "successful" by most people's standards.

"become an entrepreneur building multi million dollar startups, which was the point of the portion of PG's essay you extracted. You set out to debunk it and didn't do so at all."

No, it wasn't. Paul Graham was making a point about being successful in general, not just being successful in startups. Read the quote:

"So if you want to invest two years in something that will help you succeed in business, the evidence suggests you'd do better to learn how to hack than get an MBA."

He's talking about business in general, not just startups, which is why he talks about MBA prevalence among all billionaires, not just those that made their fortune in startups. I agree that getting an MBA will help you very little in the startup world, but both me and PG agree on that.
I'm really confused why chrome (and now IE9) doesn't support Theora/Vorbis when it's FREE and USEFUL for them to do so. I think I'm missing something.

I do know if you build your own Chromium you can use a non neutered library of ffmpeg and play every codec it supports instead of just mp4.
"out of the self-made billionaires, 7 out of 32, or 22%, have MBAs from a top business school. Those aren't bad odds."

Correlation vs. causation. Enough said.
It's an interesting question. Here's my (admittedly incomplete) laundry list:

* You should know (really really know) one language - preferably one conducive to writing web applications. PHP, Python, Ruby, Java and .NET seem to be the ones in vogue today. Perl, Haskell, Scheme, Smalltalk, as well as several others, will absolutely work too, but tooling seem to be somewhat a step behind, at least when compared w/ the ones in the first group.

You should know Javascript. Not jQuery, Prototype, or MooTools. You should know web_developer.prototype.javascript.

* You should have great communication skills. Arguably, the ability to clearly and eloquently express yourself is sine qua non for (being successful at) doing pretty much anything that involves other people but, given that the bar seems to be considerably lower for us folks in traditionally left-brain professions, I feel obliged to mention it.

* You should have a knack for aesthetics, and be familiar w/ interface design and usability. You don't necessarily need to be able to produce aesthetically pleasing, usable anything, but you should be able to _know it when you see it_. And this is a lot less subjective than conventional wisdom would have you believe.

* You should have an understanding of how to store and retrieve data, what sort of operations are expensive when querying, and be able to model at least simple schemas.

* You should be able to write concise, uniform looking markup and css (or (and?) be familiar w/ the myriad use tools that can make this considerably easier for you).

* You should enjoy it.

Also Helpful:

* A background in Comp Sci will presumably give you some knowledge of design patterns (more helpful than algorithms for most web development work out there today, in my experience), a familiarity w/ different languages and general approaches, and the ability to write somewhat decoupled, modular, testable code amongst a few others.

* Being naturally curious, as well as enjoying it, will help you keep up with a fairly fast-evolving landscape of different standards, platforms and approaches.
There was only one patent, for LZW, but it was held in multiple countries. It first expired in 2003, and had expired in the last country by 2004.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphics_Interchange_Format#Uni...
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It is expected that there would be different strategies employed by a population.

Game theory can derive this result. John Maynard Smith introduced the idea of a evolutionarily stable strategy. The idea is to use the classic game theory payoff matrix successively to determine a stable mix of strategies used by the population. Some payoff matrix aren't stable since one of the strategies can dominate the others and causing the dominated strategy to be extinct in the population.

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The types of strategy typically discussed are:

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* Bully (feign attack)
* Retaliator (peaceful until attacked)
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Chrome (and Chromium) ship with support for Ogg Theora and Vorbis. I'm not sure where this misconception comes from.
Surely the more expedient and effective reaction is to address it immediately, but calmly - inform the person of your grievance and implore them to alter their behavior, but do so without the anger, as that can damage your relationship.

Or is the facade of anger better?