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I think the more significant halo sales are coming from consumers, not developers. How much would Apple really lose by opening up another iPhone developer platform? I use VS at work all day and a Mac at home. Even though I can (and do) run Windows/VS on my Mac, I wouldn't switch away from Xcode (admittedly, I just dabble in Mac development). I don't making VS an iPhone development platform would lead to a significant loss of Mac sales or a downturn in OS X app development, I think it would just encourage Windows developers to create iPhone apps. It's also possible that Objective-C and the Cocoa framework could win over some developers and give them cause to try their hand at OS X development on a Mac. I guess I just don't see the downside to providing a supported development environment on an alternate platform.

At the end of the day, the more quality apps Apple gets on the iPhone, the better it is for them. Better apps = more phone/iPad sales = more halo sales.

I do have to agree with you on your 0 for 3 call, but what do I know. It'd definitely be exciting.
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Go find a wealth management advisor who is substantially older than you, and preferably one who is a CFA Charterholder. Tell them that for a couple years, you want to take a relatively conservative position while you study up on finance. They can help you diversify your holdings against many sorts of risks relatively easily. This isn't worth doing when you only have $50k, but when you have $5m, it's worth protecting against a lot of different possibilities.

Then, go study finance. Really study it. Full-time student. You have a huge opportunity. Don't just read a few books.

And be clear, you don't just want a CPA. You're looking for a professional firm that is devoted to the special needs of high net worth individuals. You have unusual tax, estate and banking requirements.
he is? Are you? :)
Roughly $35,000 for what he describes as a trivial amount of work each month, while he was holding down a job as a salaryman.

Now that's he's gone full-time, there's no doubt in my mind that his revenues will be prodigious.
I might fit the bill for some of your projects. Send me an email at jraines@gmail.com
The risk involved to start a business is time and money. You take one year off as a high paid engineer your losing over 100K. What if you need to boot strap your business because venture funds aren't available. The risk is low if you coded something on your spare time and somehow got a huge amount of VC funds(CD style investing). Wise investments are key to success of any business. How will you allocate your first millions in VC funds. Are you going to invest in staff, equipment or acquisitions. Sure you will have advisers at this point but it's important to understand the value of investments. If you are not surprised I would imagine you view the majority of start ups as the former kind I mentioned. Spare time and lots of vc money. I don't have any evidence to say that isn't always the case but it would appear odd to me if it was.
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Anyone hand out food or something else instead? I am not a big can of cigarettes but I bought a big box of Clif Bars the other day and thought that, or something similar/smaller/cheaper, would be a good handout. I'm always weary of handing out money because it just seems very likely that it will be used for alcohol, drugs, etc.
Let's fix this hunter-gatherer analogy up a bit.

When I find some good information to "eat" it never runs out. I can share it with the tribe endlessly. I think a better analogy is that we are all on watch, looking out for the tribe, ready to raise the alarm. That is why FUD is effective and the media is becoming strident about the mundane. It speaks to the alert. And to be fair, innovation is breeding obsolescence, with we all must fear.

So fellow tribespeople, keep a sharp lookout, but don't forget, it's very cheap for others to do so also. What we really need is a few of us to focus and crank out some arrowheads, or, better yet, invent gunpowder.
In the company I co-founded, for the longest time the business cards of me and my three co-founders said just that: "Co-founder." Once we were to a good place and were profitable (and the REAL work started), action items began to fall by the wayside, despite the proficiencies we all knew we had (you've heard the phrase "if everyone is responsible, then no one is responsible").

Internally—not to anyone else—we designated CEO, CTO, CMO and COO designations. It wasn't about titles, it was about a mindset; that's when things started getting done again. It wasn't about ego at all. It wasn't about getting off from having a title on my business card (in fact, we didn't re-print new cards because we didn't want to spend money on new cards, hah!).

Our decision was about highlighting our proficiencies and giving each other the power to take ownership of different aspects of the business we owned together. We could give a shit if people were impressed with a title on a piece of paper.
Agreed... There are millions of .NET developers that would love to create applications in that ecosystem. Count me as one of them.
We do a vote every time on Google Moderator for a venue:

http://www.google.com/moderator/#15/e=67ac&t=67ac.40
You can say 'Sorry, no' or just 'good luck'.

If you have any genuine sympathy that will probably come across to them.
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Yes, one shouldn't pass judgement on homeless people, but the music analogy doesn't hold.

I presume that, whether you listen to country or rap, there is some degree of choice in your actions. So many homeless people end up on the streets because of mental illness or domestic violence -- things that are absolutely out of their control.

So instead, at least for me, it is difficult to see and accept homelessness as an alternative lifestyle.
It requires a different level of empathy.
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Completely agree. In fact one of the biggest problems our office has with new hires fresh out of college, many of which are really bright kids, is that they haven't read enough BIG pieces of code.

When working alone it might not matter but when working in a team of 50 coders on a million line code base that goes across 5 continents and 10 different hardware platforms... Being able to consume and understand large chunks of code and how they fit together is essential. Personally, for any young programmers I'd suggest you practice reading and understanding large software modules... example: some big, active, corner of the linux kernel. (I'm a C / C++ systems developer so I'm biased).
As flying changed from an esoteric daredevil activity to a dreary consumer experience, many consumers gained access to great utility and tremendous wealth has been created. As cars changed from finicky things requiring enthusiast skills to keep running smoothly to closed, consumer devices, many consumers gained access to great utility and tremendous wealth has been created.

So it will go with computers. (And also note, that expert/enthusiast flying and driving experiences are still readily available for those with the burning desire.)
I call BS - if something sounds to good to be true it usually is...

Far more likely that time is reserved for A) Bing over Google announcement in iPhone OS 4 or B) Office related announcements (maybe iPad?)

Given the investments Microsoft has made on the Mac the most agile team they have who could pull off something like this would be the Silverlight team who already has a .NET runtime (SL is a small .net runtime) running on OSX - one would imagine the jump to iPhone as rather trivial all things considered but there are two reasons this just doesnt make sense. Number 1 is the fact that since SL4 shipped the entire SL team focus has turned to WinPhone7 which uses SL as the app runtime. Second, given all the Apple pronouncements about being against 3rd party runtimes - I cant see them saying 'oh, Silverlight is OK'
Ah I would love that. Opportunity for a startup maybe?
If the killer app for a tablet is web browsing, that makes the iPad very vulnerable to an Android tablet.
So if a vaccine for a deadly disease is not 100% safe then you wouldn't use it at all as actively killing 1% is worse than passively allowing 80% (say) to die?

When making considerations of the well being of whole populations one has to consider the whole population not the individual.

A decision to withhold food aid now might kill 10%, but supplying that food and buoying up the population until the next big crisis is likely to kill far more people and could push us beyond sustainability - there is a point at which renewable resources become to depleted to recover. Sure, one can consider that the Jones family will lose their daughter and so we have to send food but this leads us on and on to overpopulation.
And how would they test apps without the simulator? You'd have to port pretty much all of Cocoa to windows for the simulator to work. It's not an emulator running the real ARM code and iPhone OS; it's more like a compatibility layer between iPhone objects and OSX objects.
It's a good use for an old laptop. The problem is with the form factor.
That's what I've been using for all my IMing for the last Month or so and I'm loving it. If only it worked as well for web browing...

EDIT: Actually, how hard _would_ it be to make screen work with x-forwarding? This is unfortunately outside the area of my EEly expertise.
> Generally, someone smart enough to build a $5 million company should be smart enough to manage his own money.

They are probably also capable of fixing their own car or doing their own plumbing or landscaping.

Sometimes you want to delegate tasks that you dont' want to do onto others.
I've only used craigslist (on the consumer side) while apartment hunting... With that said, but if I were to add a listing, it would makes sense (and be in my advantage) to track the effectiveness of my listings and optimize them for traffic and conversions
Done! Thanks for taking the time to read this. My hope in posting the pastebin link was that other commenters might chime in if they saw glaring errors.
When I first sat down to write FizzBuzz for kicks I spent a few minutes trying to think of an elegant or clever solution before writing the obvious answer. I think I would be similarly on guard in an interview situation. I'd say 1 to 10 minutes is easily acceptable accounting for over thinking.

Now if they are actually struggling for 10 minutes, that's another matter.
When you get on a sum of money quickly, you lack the neccessary skills to manage it. And you will blow it quicker than you think, because there are many toys out there. So invest your time in learning how to manage a larger sum of money, and you will be able to increase it quickly.
Dwolla is a local startup here in Des Moines, IA

https://www.dwolla.com/

Here's my interview with the founder -> http://prairiecast.com/guest-ben-milne-of-dwolla-episode-2
Oh, the iPad might be all fancy-glitzy-waste-of-money-blah-blah, but as a product, it's good at it. It provides an experience, as well as providing usefulness. I have used a laptop for recipe purposes in a kitchen, too, but using an iPad to do it just makes it feel a lot more cool, which makes people bother to use it more. My mother never saw the use for mp3 player speakers until she realised that it was a very easy and convenient way to listen to Alice Cooper in the kitchen while cooking. She could've gotten a portable player/radio - the technology's been around for a while, I'd say - but she didn't.

It's a brilliant marketing idea. I'll probably stick to my laptop and paper notes, but I guess I, like everyone, have some sort of dream of a future where we have fancy computer screens everywhere. Kitchen computers, robo-butlers (or a disembodied mildly sarcastic voice with a British accent answering your questions), projectors projecting the next recipe on your kitchen cupboard, fridges keeping tally of your shopping list, you name it.
OTOH, I'm also tired of complaints about the way something is run without presenting a reasonable alternative.

Complaining is easy.
Read any good code lately? I'd love some recommendations.
I don't really associate with any political party, but I believe the libertarian view is for smaller military. Often from what I've read they would like to see no standing army, leaving a navy, and militias for defense. However I have not read that much, so I could be reading for an inaccurate source.
If you're interviewing and are interested in filtering out the idiots with little work on your part, http://www.ziprecruiter.com/ may be useful. (Disclaimer. I know the people who created it. But it still is a useful piece of work reduction.)
The specification states that "your routine should modify the given zero-terminated string in place". This implies that a zero-terminated string is passed in, and that it is mutable. If this is not the case, it is impossible to perform as specified; any behavior is wrong. An assertion error would be the ideal way to handle things; an immediate segfault is almost as good (and probably the practical thing to do if the string is immutable or not null-terminated). And of course, there are some error situations you simply can't detect - eg, not all cases of non-terminated strings are detectable, because you run into and mutate some other heap garbage before hitting an unmapped or immutable page.
With two small kids my family spends 80%+ of its time in the kitchen/living room/play area -- far away from the office with the Computer. So, having a "kitchen computer" is actually a very useful thing (as superfluous as it sounds).

I got an iPad instead of a netbook because I thought it'd be easier for my non-technical wife (my 3 year old daughter showed her how to use it).
If I was further along in my Rails learning, I would be interested, as I am looking for some work. Still feel free to drop me a line at freelance@phsr.org if you wouldn't be opposed to a bit of learning on the job.
> we'll be able to ramp up nuclear power over a few decades.

Maybe if thorium comes on the radar.

> we've been pretty good at discovering and harvesting 'magic ponies' of all shapes and sizes.

Well, not that much. By the end of the roman republic, most of what made the industrial revolution possible was available, but it didn't happen until 18 centuries later.
Technically, the extra charge for the hotspot is the same as for non 4G Sprint phones. They charge extra for phone as modem on most phones unless you hack it. I'll wait and see how long it is before someone hacks this to provide free hotspot use.
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"Climb into a tree".

This is the punchline as I remember it of a joke I heard many years ago (in bubble 1.0 times) that started "How do I get funding for my start-up in the Silicon Valley? -- Step 1: go and kick a tree ..."

I couldn't get Google to dig up the original joke. Anyone has a reference or cares to re-tell it?
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If you don't want to call them patent-trolls, they are certainly very litigious.
It would hardly be a sacrifice, it would be an opportunity to learn about investing and wealth management in a non-rushed manner while you carry on with the rest of your life more or less however you like.
If this were to happen, the only reason it would is to bring Bing to the iPhone. Bing Search, Bing Maps, and perhaps Bing Travel if Apple announces their travel app plans (longshot).
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It's easy to get jaded in SF because there are so many panhandlers. There's also different classes of panhandlers... There's gutter punks, scam artists, drug addicts, mentally ill, and dudes who are just down and out. There was a guy by my house who I felt bad for because he was mentally retarded... until I ran into him at the pizza place and realized it was all an act. There are guys who would ask for weirdly specific amounts of money, like $8.75 or 13 dollars. There are guys who have nicer shoes than me. The gutter punks are aggressive and generally assholes. There was a 20-something girl with a shaved head who offered to give me a blow job for $5... at 7 in the morning.

Anyway, I get what the OP is saying but none of these people besides the gutter punks would be into smokes. It's sort of stupid to buy smokes for homeless people if you don't smoke. Even beyond the homeless, SF is lurker central. Smoking in SF means that everyone on the street will ask you for a cigarette, from homeless people, to drunk yuppies whose wife won't let them buy cigs, to teenage girls up for the weekend from Stockton.

In summary... having cigarettes will actually ensure that you have about 5x as many encounters with people on the street than you normally would.

Really the only way to deal with the panhandlers (and everyone else in SF) is to learn how to say "no." If you want to feel better about yourself volunteer at a shelter or soup kitchen.
I think the obligation to work in exchange for pay that is the problem. If you're in the position where you can freely choose what to work on, I just think you'd be a lot happier than if your choice is dictated by your employer. That is a lot of the freedom that you get as an academic (or nominally as a founder). As it happens, I'd expect that if I was retired I'd spend a lot of time doing similar stuff to what I do now -- but being able to choose how to spend your time would be a major benefit.
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I think the key take-away is this:

But the real trick, Kahneman said, is to spend time with people you like.

I've looked at my history of happiness, and I've found very little correlation between my salary and happiness, mostly just a short term happiness bump when I first get a raise. On the other hand, the correlation between nearness of good friends and my happiness stands clearly.
>I believe a man who retires at 70 will be happier than one who retires at 50, and he'll live longer too (leaving aside those who die between 50 and 70).

You don't work in Calcutta cleaning sewer pipes wearing nothing but a loin-cloth do you.

Not everyone enjoys there work but we all have to eat.

I'm in my 30s, if I could retire now I would - then I could do things I enjoy, not sit at home doing nothing but be active in ways in which it's not easy to acquire financial support. First up would be a course in forestry, being a school governor, spending more time doing voluntary youth work, getting fit again...
Call me insane, but I kind of like GDB + Xcode's wrapper. Yes, once or twice it has said dumb things about variables, but no more so than Visual Studio.

Likewise, I can't remember a time when I've seen Xcode's Intellisense-like feature fail, though I can recall several times when Visual Studio's has. (Xcode's method to advance to the next parameter--Ctrl-slash or something--is pretty non-obvious, though.)
Not that I disagree, but the analogy seems flawed. The "closed consumer" cars and airplanes of today also are more capable than the finicky, esoteric products they replaced. Conversely, the reason many people thought the iPad would fail is that it's less capable than its seeming competition.
I'm still holding off on the iPad, but this is probably the #1 reason I want one. Every other thing I'd imagine myself using the iPad for, I currently use either my laptop or phone.

I like to cook and frequently adapt recipes I find online; I don't like to bring the laptop into the kitchen because it takes up too much space, and because of the risk of spills. The iPad could be mounted on the face of a cupboard or propped up on a stand to minimize risk of damage, while having everything I need close at hand.
Do you believe that the 'casual' aspect of it will remain? I remember that people used to love laptops when they first came out (yes I'm old) because they could take them to a park and work. They found it relaxing and not as "business" oriented.

Fast forward to today and they've lost that vibe. I'm kinda feeling like the iPad will also lose that after people get used to the 'newness' of the form factor.
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That sounds relatively inexpensive. An average Shuttle mission costs almost $500 million. Investing in robot R&D and making space exploration cheaper seems like a no brainer. The US govt needs to convince the public that this is the sexy solution.
I'm with you on this. It would be totally AWESOME and would bring major hype to both companies, and possibly shift the discussion away from I/O + Android.
The actual headline says "slows", not "stops". (Has it changed?)
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Are you craving an android tablet because it's a better/faster experience or because you don't like Apple? I haven't used an Android phone in about a year, so I'm missing the connection. What evidence is there that an Android tablet will be superior, besides the draconian App Store policies?
I cant see them saying 'oh, Silverlight is OK'

What if the Silverlight development environment could target an Apple-developed and controlled runtime?

Apple would retain control, but gain access to an additional developer base as well as a Flash competitor with Apple platform control.

I'm not speaking for the credibility of the Register here. (I wish they'd die as much as Adobe would.) However, technically speaking, this is quite possible. It's also an interesting idea.

Add in a free SWF to Silverlight cross-compiler, and you have a very strong move against Adobe.
Roark chose to do hard labor because he liked it well enough. What he was doing was choosing not to work for other architects because, for him, that would have been suffering, even though it would have furthered his career better. He went to the quarry out of a refusal to sacrifice his values no matter how convenient it would be.

Do you remember how Roark interacted with his school?
just because the PR doesn't flow through the nofollow link does not mean that the SE's aren't following the links to see what's on the other side....
Possibly the best thing that could be done for humanity in the next hundred years is to solve the lack of empathy for individuals and groups of people we have not met. I think if you had some friends in Africa that would be affected by your solution, you would feel very differently.

I am not picking on you here--I think this is a failing in the way we're wired that some part of us (including me) can consider tragedy at that scale as a possible solution.
Thank you for posting this, I'm a contractor looking for work; this looks to be a bit more niche than ELance et al (you have to request an invite to be listed!).
Excellent advice and very timely for me. Especially the advice about finding an 'advocate' in the customer's organization with the authority to over-ride lawyers and negotiating high level points with him.
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Yes. I was more on the line of suggesting taking out your calculator, if you want to know when your investment doubles.
Apple should have a certification program for such 1:1 mapping APIs. That would also take the thorn out of section 3.3.1 while allowing them to retain platform control.