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Triangle was ok, but it has another feel to the movie. It's a bit of a horror with some mystical explanation to it.

But Primer is pure mind-bending sci-fi. You could feel the atmosphere of the guys inventing something like few other movies.

Actually - this is how I think a startup should feel and look like: the way the movie portrays it at the beginning, while the guys are still figuring things out.
Wow. Major guesswork in the numbers here. Any one of those numbers could be out and throw the final result off by an order of magnitude.

The other point is lock in. Google have 65k new users locked into a google environment each day. Their recent acquisition of ad mob (etc..) will increase revenue.
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You're right, but such an attitude can lead to a global risk: when Google (Gmail, Blogger, Youtube) is down, everyone shuts up. When they burn, everyone lose their memory.

And I didn't mentioned the temptations associated with massive centralization yet…
That's correct.

You do need to hack the firmware though to not be able to access the default dialer (which he had done).

I just tried on my phone: even if I install Dialer one, I can always go to all applications and run the default phone app.

Without the modified firmware, he could have realized the 3rd party dialer had a bug and immediately switched to the default in seconds.
It's a bit off topic, but that is not actually a good way to measure a nation.

Holocaust survivors describe how dogs were treated well, and there were laws protecting them and other animals.

A much better way to measure that, is seeing how the nation treats it's prisoners.
Well, it's not like one could ask his employer for a Wii. If you are to get some kind of smart phone, might as well get an iPhone.

Plus, the iPhone is so expensive it makes sense to have it on the corporate account.
He is missing the point. Sure, this is a logical thing to happen. The sensation of the story was that it's a device in the human body, and that this can have ugly consequences.
Those numbers and the article don't seem to make the "ran out of cash" part due to a divorce add up. He made $17m per year on average for years, and having to pay $6m is what bankrupted him? I.e. losing a mere four months' income? It seems the worst it could've done is advanced his impending cash crunch by a few months, if he was already burning through cash at such a rate.
If that's true the focus had already shifted when Drew applied to YC:

http://files.dropbox.com/u/2/app.html
I called bullshit the moment i saw BBC's article, but then again, thats because i understand the basics of how RFID works.

The problem is, the general public dont, thus cant spot the bullshit. Which is the same for me when any publication runs a story on a subject on which i've little knowledge of.

I tend to be pretty cynical of everything i consume from the media, but it really bugs me that the large majority just buy this shit.
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You don't need pain if you can't learn from it.

Whaaaat? You need pain to run away from the source of it, and to warn your relatives by screaming.
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> It's pretty much come true, with distributed computing and peer-to-peer networks.

That is the "good" cloud. The "buzzword" cloud, however, is much more about centralized computing and client-server networks. In other words, about many helpless customers being dependent on a few, powerful, corporations.
If you liked Primer, check also Timecrimes:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480669/
The intro is right; it really kicks in from Ch5 onwards.
The thing about Obama receiving most money from BP is misleading. He received most money from individual BP employees, but received no money from BP itself for his presidential campaign, as he took no money from corporations or their political action committees and lobbyists. The fact that Obama received most money from BP individual employees is not surprising because he got record donations from individuals in general.

Also, the whole thing will have very little to do with Obama. BP will pay according to the law on the books and the way judges enforce/construe that law.

Obama will probably campaign to change the law, but that will not affect the treatment of the spill because ex post facto laws are usually considered unconstitutional in the US. So the spill will be treated according to the law as it was at the time the spill happened.
upvoted - especially the large image (one of the links on Wikipedia) that draws a graph of the "events".
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Apple, at least, seems to play up the iPad as an American device pretty heavily--- lots of "Designed by Apple in California" on packaging. Of course, there are marketing reasons for that.
It's orders of magnitude easier to develop something that works cross-browser today than it was ten years ago, even for quite advanced stuff. Back then, you basically had to develop two parallel sites (one for IE and one for NS) if you wanted it to do anything moderately fancy.
May 7th: How big is Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8664684.stm

This was linked from the breaking-news story.
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I disagree with your post and I believe that many, if not most, of charitable donations are poorly spent

Really? I'd be interested to hear why you think that. Are you speaking from personal experience? Have you been involved with different charities and been dismayed or shocked when you looked at how poorly run or wasteful they were?

I gave just one example of what my parents did. But, I was surrounded by people that worked for Christian missionary agencies, and non-religious organizations overseas while growing up. They all did a wide variety of things from straight religious work, education, running hospitals, building houses, schools, wells, teaching better agricultural techniques, etc...

All of that was funded by donations to the non-profits that they were working for. If you want to call that other work "quais-charity" I guess that's up to you. But, I've been involved in the grass roots with many different non-profit's and that's pretty much what the vast majority of them do.

I can't think of a single organization out of the dozens that I personally interacted with that simply handed out cash to people.
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> Well, for better or for worse, no lisper I know would ever try to fuse a database system in at the kernel level. That's one of the ugliest system designs I've ever heard of.

It's nevertheless fairly common, and it's usually called a "filesystem".
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Don't know about the earthworm, but for the ant it's like this:

The ant itself might not feel pain but the ant colony as a whole does feel "pain", the reason for this is that an ant is the equivalent to a human cell. It doesn't feel pain by itself.

To verify this, just find a big ant colony (with hundreds of ants above ground, doing their stuff) and then step on some ants and you will see them completely freak and try to find the attacker so that it doesn't cause any more "pain" the colony.
Might be something to do with the site redesign: http://www.sukria.net/fr/archives/2010/05/20/redesign-contes...

Site (original design) is up now. Also a more canonical CPAN link is: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Dancer/
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Overall, it seems like the creator of it knew a little bit of math, and probably some physics, and extrapolated from there. More probable though is that their only knowledge of the subject came from philosophy, or epistemology.

Overall, it seems like the creator of it knew a little bit of math, and probably some physics, philosophy, or epistemology. More probable though is that their only knowledge of the subject came from late night sessions passing the bong, listening to Floyd.

There, fixed that for you.
On a tangential note, Timecrimes (Spanish) is another good movie I enjoyed watching - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Cronocr%C3%ADmenes
>Working at Foxconn dramatically reduces people’s risk of suicide!

Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/552/
Most of the founders in the article are quick to bash their creation, saying "clearly there was no market need." I am not convinced, even for a very niche product. Poor marketing efforts can be blamed here -- it seems likely of hobbyist developers create a product and just sit there, waiting for someone to come buy it.
> Or if you cut an earthworm in half it behaves normally.

It does not. It certainly does act like it feels pain. And in a few minutes it dies.
I think your and their definition of "high cognitive ability and sentience" may not be the same.
Using "Our ancestors did this." as an explanation to do something is fallacious.

Our ancestors also (in some cases) sacrificed people as offerings. Should we do that too?
Hacking things together ad-hoc just to make it work isn't the way that clever programmers produce awful monstrous unmaintainable implementations. That's the way un-clever programmers do. Clever programmers, instead, invest lots of time into reinventing things that don't need reinventing, and then must be learned by those who come after them; and implementing things that don't need to be reimplemented. Reams of copy-pasted code is not the affliction of the clever programmer. Instead, you discover that there's a strategy factory to instantiate a strategy that chooses which home-grown database abstraction layer to use and what kind of caching to apply to it; and that there's a home-grown template library on top of that, with its own caching layer. And it's all configured with a plugin system that uses a bunch of XML metadata files for each plugin — all in order to run a message board.
Its a tough watch the first time, I was left scratching my head!
Your question resembles what Alan Watts said in a talk about Buddism which was somewhat like: "if you could have everything you want, all the money, all the women -- what would you do then" ?
Yeah a great flick. Only cost $7k dollars to make or something. Needs to be watched MANY times to figure it out, but the great thing is it seems to all hold together.
As I recall (since I haven't used it in a year or more), SugarSync does this and has a free 2GB account, though it lacks a Linux client.
iGlasses would be a useful morphing of the product into a wearable device for people with disabilities actually. http://stoloff-law.com/blog/iphone-apps-that-help-people-wit...
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I have heard about this. All the obviously good ideas have already been implemented, and others find your not-so-obvious ideas hard to understand.
While this makes perfect sense, there is a chance that the people who get to know of your secret idea will understand it very quickly, and proceed to work on it.

The other advise about hiding ideas, which has nothing to do with this quote, is that its the execution of the idea which matters, not the idea itself, which is also very good advise. But again, someone else who steals your idea may be in a position to execute it better than you (more funding, more resources)
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> I see as a mean-spiritedness

Let me offer an outside perspective. I see VCs in a role similar to horse breeders - they pick a few foals, groom them, and are quite dispassionate about pushing ahead the winners and disposing of the others.

Can't quite blame the young bucks for some kicking and biting when a strange-smelling outsider approaches them with a rope and saddle.

(shouldn't have watched all those westerns ...)
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The AA just got hacked??
Am I wrong? Have they just been hacked or have they taken it down for the bank holiday weekend just to skrew everyone over?
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I see the author's trump card and play the von Manstein card!

"There are only four types of officer. First, there are the lazy, stupid ones. Leave them alone, they do no harm…Second, there are the hard-working, intelligent ones. They make excellent staff officers, ensuring that every detail is properly considered. Third, there are the hard-working, stupid ones. These people are a menace and must be fired at once. They create irrelevant work for everybody. Finally, there are the intelligent, lazy ones. They are suited for the highest office."

This seems pretty relevant. Attitude is important to being good, but it inhibits you from becoming great. Likewise, attitude is a requirement to be terrible.
Has anyone else failed to parse or understand the logical structure of this thread? This is what I see.

Your parent poster: x > y

You: Yes, but y > x
Yeah, my first thought was: "oh, well, most families can certainly relate to this - it's a replacement for your KITCHEN computer!"
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I am starting a few little projects at the moment, so my time is becoming more limited as I work on different things. The problem is my girlfriend doesnt really do anything for her self, she works and goes out maybe once or twice every fortnight with her friends. I fear that once my projects really get moving she wont understand that I am trying to make something of my self, and that idea may be holding me back from forging ahead in my ideas. Is that dumb?
Is cutting branches off trees sick weather or not trees can feel pain?
While I am sure that they are building a very good system, it is useful to keep in mind the difference between something developed internally and something rolled out to customers or external users. It is like the difference between a program and a product. There is a lot of work necessary to make the transition. For example, a product is made up of 1) the program 2) the release discipline, 3) manufacturing (admittedly near zero for cloud) 4) marketing and 5) support.

I would think that also whatever they have built has a bit of a proprietary nature which when exposed to the cloud would reveal things about their strategy that might make their trading strategy more public than they would want.

So I would be a little surprised if this popped up on the grid. Er, cloud.
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And if you work in heterogeneous teams you are just proving the author's point.

If the gifted code is unintelligible to the less skilled how can a team work? Immediately you have the problem of the less skilled not being able to follow the code pratices of the gifted coder, it will be harder to reuse. And the when somebody else has to extend it will cost a lot more time, or to correct something.

Surely some parts of code should be clever, sometimes it has to be clever because there are no alternatives. It should always be somehow well contained. But if you start evaluating code <i>per se</i> you surely end with a bad compromise.

Isn't this obvious to everybody who has to lead a team(I don't)?
I think it's related to the great "powers of 10" film; see http://www.powersof10.com/.
More on his blog, I think this will become a new fave of mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1386143
It is extremely hard to find a co-founder. And not easy to trust them too. If you don't know anyone, it's probably not the best idea to look for one. (I wouldn't)
Again, this also depends on what skills you bring to the table, and what else is needed which you can't provide.
There are some things which can be handled by employees, and they are certain things which should be handled by a "founder".
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We're talking about the neurological pain, the pain that you feel when you pinch yourself. An ant colony cannot feel this, unless it is somehow conscious.
I think you are missing the point.
Nazi Germany was by no means a vegetarian country. I think a better question to ask would be - could the Holocaust have happened in the mostly-vegetarian India?
Millions of people were murdered under the pretense that these people are pigs or rats. But what if your culture (e.g. Hinduism or whatever) also condemns the killing of pigs and rats? The entire argument that justifies murdering these people breaks down.
Japan's efforts in hi-tech have always been different than other places, transport engineering, robotics, electronics, etc. Basically "stuff" but not software. I think it could be successfully argued that Japan is miles ahead of the West in certain areas like robotics or mobile digital television transmission.

Software on the other hand has long been the Achilles heal of the Japanese technology industry. I read a great article one time on why that is (sorry I couldn't find the link to it, but this is somewhat along the same line http://gizmodo.com/5069366/why-zen-software-design-does-not-... ) that attributes it to generally historic reasons. Principally that the Japanese language was hard to build into cheap computers early in the electronics boom and the result is that efforts (both engineering and in terms of cultural assimilation) simply went into other areas. Instead of PCs, people had fancy cell phones. Instead of people going into software and interface engineering, they went into analog and digital circuit designs. You could commonly get a cell phone in Japan that could take photos and videos, pay for a soda, access the Internet had ring tones (both for you and for the caller), could play games and mp3s long before you could get the equivalent in the U.S. Which sounds great on a pure features list, but the software on the phones generally stank.

While hardware engineering in Japan is generally more mature than the equivalent in the West, the opposite is true of software engineering. Part of this means that sub-areas of SE are also more mature, like interface design. However, in Japan, consumers are trained to buy off of bullet points, so even devices like the iPhone had trouble taking off ( http://www.teleread.com/2009/02/27/why-the-iphone-is-not-pop... ) simply because it lacks features most users want, despite the fact that accessing the features it does have is a better experience.

It's an interesting Paradox because you would think the opposite would be true. The Japanese traditional aesthetic should drive people to clean and simple UIs
, but a couple generations of consumers simply haven't been brought up in that environment. The effect of course is that a couple generations of developers haven't been raised in an environment where there was demand for good UI.
I haven't seen Avatar yet. I'm likely one of the 7 who hasn't.
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only one problem..

China suicide rate per 100,000 people base don 100,000 people that are not transient..

That 400,00 foxcon employee number changes monthly..ie its not the same 400,000 people and thus you cannot statistically compare the stats to one another
On the topic of fuse, I'll just take a moment to shamelessly plug mp3fs, a filesystem I wrote:

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$ ls music
01 Ghosts I.flac 03 Ghosts I.wav mp3file.mp3
02 Ghosts I.wav 04 Ghosts I.ogg list_of_music.txt
$ mkdir mp3music
$ mp3fs music mp3music
$ ls mp3music
01 Ghosts I.mp3 03 Ghosts I.mp3 mp3file.mp3
02 Ghosts I.mp3 04 Ghosts I.mp3
$ cp mp3music/*.mp3 /media/mp3_player_that_doesnt_play_flac_or_ogg_files
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Frequently quoted number is the 80% that are spent by the charities on supporting themselves and 20% reaching the actual people they are helping.

A friend of mine worked for a larger charity and the level of self-indulgement was astounding. Especially around the end of fiscal year when they had to spend the whatever budgeted cash left on something... anything, so not to have the budget cut next year.
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Agree, Timecrimes is very similar and good value.
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That's actually what I considered to be the cause for the law of large numbers, when I tried to trace the normal distribution to axioms of three-dimensional geometry. I failed to get much beyond that, for lack of ability to reason about exponential functions, and abandoned the pursuit.