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well really it's mostly hacked together with perl ;)
Well I think anything that was used to describe the AI programming would have long since been lost to the ages, and the AI outgrown any known language which can describe it.
I'm pretty sure you can donkey vote and if not, I can't see how they'd ever find out anyway.
True, although if I were coming on-board as a cofounder, I'd expect to be there for the long haul, so they don't affect me all that much. I'd prefer to see both partners have pretty standard vesting, probably 4-year.

I do take vesting into account if I'm joining as an early employee and I expect the company to be bought out soon. I believe that acquirers can do whatever they want with an employee's unvested options, and this is a pretty easy way to get screwed.
Co-Founder Alexis Ohania's current projects include TBA Startup(s), TBA iPad & iPhone apps, TBA Book by Zach Weiner,Angel Investor with Das Kapital Capital LLC, AwesomeFoundation Board Member, TEDx Yerevan, and Breadpig, Inc.[1]

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Logic gates are fundamental, and would be exactly the same. [1]

They don't have to be binary, but it's a lot easier, so it's a near certainty. Plus true/false is also fundamental.

So I think at a low level it'll be pretty similar.

Math is usually considered to be universal, and computers are based on math, so that will all be the same.

Memory access however could be totally different. Our machines are Von Neumann, but aliens could use a totally different architecture.

[1] There is one gate for each combination of binary input and output. There are three inputs: 0 0, 1 1, and 0 1 (1 0 is the same thing). For each input there are two possible outputs, total 6. There are 6 gates: and, or, xor, nand, nor, nxor (xnor)

Or put another way:

xnor
nor xor nand and nxor or
-------------------------------------------
1 1: 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
0 1: 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1
0 0: 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1

(A gate that always returns 0 or 1 is useless, so those two don't count.)

If you want logic gates that depend on position, then you have more options (16 in total, compared to the 8 I listed), and you can see them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_connective#Table_of_bin...

Our computers don't use them, I suppose alien ones could, but I doubt they would.
That would be so much slower. I use back and home quite frequently on my phone; I would hate another key press.
Also is accidentally hitting keys a frequent problem? On my hero, that has never happened.
Finally we get a parallel map!
Come on, Google. Software development is not for everyone. Making it easy for amateurs to write crappy HelloPurr apps brings no good to the Android eco-system. Focus on building a mobile platform that attracts more professional developers, please.
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I like the incredible buttons. Flush, but the phone vibrates a bit when you hit them.
Why do you need language to think? Isn't brain enough?
The firewall punching (STUN) works as well as firewall punching works for anyone else. Peer-to-peer between phones won't work if the firewall is setup to block phones, but Skype won't work if the firewall blocks Skype.
who is the customer for Embed.ly?

I imagine this is useful for people who make mashup style apps that plug into various different services, but is that a big enough market size?

If I'm just plugging into one service, it's better to use the direct API than go through a middle man. If I'm using a dozen different services, I see the point of Embed.ly, but I don't see a huge business opportunity. Perhaps I'm missing something?
Why? He was still right. Netscape is dead. The company didn't survive the rewrite even if some of the software eventually did.
I am not saying that the examples you cite are not problems, but would you prefer great income inequality in which the lowest-earners make X and the highest earners say 10X, or a very homogenous society in which the lowest earners earn 0.1X and the highest earners barely make X?

Income inequality is not a simple yes or no choice.

[edited: brevity]
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"working 1 to 2 years at an adult internet startup would give you the most insane knowledge about direct marketing, maximising conversions and the dark underbelly of affiliate marketing."

I had a job offer from one porn tube site to work as a developer. I doubt that you'd learn those skills working as a dev. That being said +1 for the info.
I think the author was just looking for an excuse to post that flowchart.
Their demo is narrow, but growing[1][2]. If they can shape up their game- design, revenue model, moderation- they have the potential to be very successful.

[1] http://www.google.com/trends?q=reddit

[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-monthly-page...
Are you sure? I was testing this a couple of weeks ago. Shift-clicking refresh causes a forced resend in Chrome for our app. We don't use if-modified-since but we do use if-none-match, and Chrome definitely doesn't send it in that case. (But IE6 and IE7 do.)
Isn't competition too high http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1703724&cid=32747...
Programming isn't even for programmers if they're running companies.

At some point you're gonna realize you're better off doing the stuff only you can do, and delegating the rest, including your beloved coding.

--

Update:

By the way, just looking at your site (http://goodlook.me/index.html) I could see at least 5 different job descriptions that might be needed to make this startup happen:

1) Backend developer, data wrangler, and statistician to do the ML stuff that classifies "styles" based on user "tastes" (this one is a toughie, assuming you're not cheating, even harder if you need to optimize both for user tastes and your own revenue; cube the pain if you want to add inventory to the mix!)

2) UI designer to make it good. Fashion is one place where you will need "taste". It's a trillion dollar industry that stands on one leg; hype.

3) Advertising sales manager to source new sponsors and vendors.

4) A communications manager to do media and PR, both old and new. Wearing multiple hats writing blogs, guest articles, scoring appearances and placements, dropping your media kit, etc.

5) Full time graphic editor and photoshop junkie. You can't just go from stock-photo CD to web. The vendors will give you their own images, which might not be good enough. The editor might wear several other hats as well, creating and editing banner ads, and maintaining the assets for your brand and image.

Then there is you, doing the budget and making sure each and everyone has enough to sustain a living. All while keeping an eye on the road ahead, doing quantitative measurement of where things are heading, how the business is changing, and constantly asking yourself whether you're dead yet or not. Making decisions that might force your entire team into violent rebellion and the undoing of months worth of work because circumstances have changed (or better yet, foreseeing this before it happens.)

Not to discourage you, just to give you a heads up that you will need to really polish your sales pitch and get all those people on board, for equity.

You can assemble this team either via contacts and recommendations, or tap into the hungry pool of recent grads and university students, but it will take some time to find the real gems, and you will need to completely understand your business inside out and bring out your own best, so others can see it.
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Unfortunately, a large part of "idea" end of things is validating the concept technically and communicating it with sufficient fidelity to be implemented. That's much easier when you know what the construction entails, even if it isn't you that's doing the work.
I think you've jumped to a conclusion here. As anthonyb started pointing out (and I added to), I do follow general world news, read long-form pieces if they seem interesting and stay abreast of local issues very occasionally through the ABC, chit-chat with friends and colleagues and hear AM radio in the car (my wife listens to it for work reasons).

Think of what I tried to explain as removing some junk food from the diet - or driving through backstreets to avoid the roads they're on!

I'd guess that my media-light diet might have me more informed than many out there who'll read whatever catches their instinct-driven fancy, do you agree?
If they are advanced enough to space travel, and they evolved from a survival mode, it would imply that their thinking organs are not designed to deal with infinite complexity. Just like us, their brains would have been evolved to deal with some primary physical stuff (like falling rocks, fire, etc). So programming will be as complex to them as it is to us.

The complexities would have to be abstracted away, and if they were space travelling, the abstractions have to be reliable. So probably, by the time we meet them, they have some type of black-box elementary code particulars for many different functions that everyone needs to join together to produce machines.

Probably, they would have developed some type of inform interface method, where you can specify what you want in and out and the appropriate atomic block gets delivered to you. They would have some type of global repository that harnesses the power of many different individuals working on problems to avoid any form of repetition.

Currently, we interface with code through typing. This is inefficient for us, and we don't know how they will coummicate. However, for them to be capable of abstract though, they will need to create pictures in their mind. It does not seem farfetched to assume that they have much faster interfacing methods that work directly on pictures they visualise. This allows them join the atomic blocks much quicker.

In effect, they will try to eliminate the manual work entirely, and only do the specifications part of things (tell it what you want), and let the computer build the rest of the things.

On the other hand, perhaps they lack our sense of moral, and will work with biological computers, and not metal-based.
It's not exactly an answer to your question, but if you aren't familiar with the Church-Turing thesis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis), you might find it interesting.
well why don't you do some tests and post them up somewhere instead of just complaining!
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make it WATERPROOF already
honestly, it's a big amount of work that is also presented in a very nice way (nice graphics, really), but the main-ingredient of this whole project, the designed appearance of the phone, lacks proper proportions, is undynamic and caused either by unawareness of what makes great design, or it is caused by fear of revealing the authors unawareness.

Just criticizing the appearance though.

As far as the usability goes:
- is it a good idea to have a curved touch screen?
- will constant uv-raying create super germs?
- i like the idea of the built in stand, at least on those graphics it looks interesting, but i simply wont buy a mobile where u could flip, twist or slide party away, around or off - because those parts decrease the life-expectancy of the object dramatically and are the first things that wore off and take away all this fancy feeling, that a high priced designy object gives you in the beginning.
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Many people don't think like that; if your house gets broken into, you don't generally complain to the locksmith who fitted cheap locks.
still, if he were my design student - i think this is what this project is all about - i would give him an a+
Xenophobia is endemic to rural areas in general. But I agree with your implied point (unless you weren't implying it, in which case I'll take it) that Canadians have a blind spot about praising ourselves for how tolerant and inviting we are. Like everything else about Canada (I mean English Canada), it needs to be understood in terms of an implied contrast with the US.

Hmm, that's a lot of implying. And this is kind of inflammatory material. I think I'll stop here.
Warning for others following the link: that's an overly verbose post with too much unfunny humour, describing a language whose implementation - on Google code - is written in a language (Watt) the author defines in the previous post. That language, in turn, doesn't appear to be much more than a more obscure version of the lambda calculus, and about as readable.
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I'm not at all impressed with this design concept. It's sophomoric design school work, the functionality is not fully thought-out and the UI is HORRIBLE - except for the 1/2 diamond arrows which are trite. It also reminds me that industrial design and interface design are two separate specialties.

That being said, I dig the design language and the inspiration found in fine old cameras and watches.

What I really want is the industrial design and hardware of Apple running the Android OS with the user experience and UI design of Palm WebOS. That's my sweetspot.
You can certainly submit blank or invalid ballots. One bloke I know has been writing "You must be joking" on his for years.

Technically, you're only required to attend a polling station and get your name crossed off.
Yes, but that's assuming that they publish the text as Twain wrote it. If they editorialize it enough they'll have produced an original work on top of Twain's work.

That'll carry their copyright, and since they keep the original under wraps there won't be a public domain version of it until the copyright of the edition now being published expires, or someone leaks the original.
They will use balanced ternary rather than binary at the lowest hardware levels:

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

I first learned of balanced ternary from this article:

http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/id.3268,y.0,no.,cont...

(Beware; the balanced-ternary example values there don't seem to be rendering negative digits correctly.)
On the other hand, I think the risk of the US to the world is greater (far greater) than the risk of the world to the US.

The US is in no danger of being attacked or invaded by anyone; one cannot say the same about other countries with respect to the US.

Even something as substantial as 9/11 was only a crime - a monstrous crime - but certainly not an act of war. There isn't any actor with the capability or will to do any serious damage to the US that wouldn't be annihilated by nuclear retribution; the US's security derives from its obvious and plain-sight strengths, not anything it keeps secret.
> Please, HTC, no more ad-libbing your own user interfaces They suck and are hard to remove. We all call it nonSense for a reason.

No, people on XDA developers (phone nerds) use the tern 'NonSense'. HTC sticks to common UI principles, ie:

* Identifiable icons (eg, using a globe, rather than a blue and white sphere, for a web browser)

* Known color schemes, eg, black, green, and white, versus Googles white, blue, orange and green.

* A home screen which can host animations. Google's can't, which is why the widget selection is poor and those that exist don't do as much.

* Always visible phone function, something Google themselves did in 2.2

* Widgets that don't waste space, compared to the default 2 x 4 widgets for Twitter and Facebook with the massive stip between.

I could go on. HTC have UI designers. Android clearly don't - it's not a matter of personal preference, it's a matter of basic design principles.

Edit: Fixed 'Apple' rather than 'Android'.
Debugging is a fascinating experience. On the one hand, it's the Jungian shadow of design, forcing you to look at everything that's wrong and unintended and resistant to conscious control in your work. On the other hand, there's the thrill of the chase. I really started to enjoy debugging when it dawned on me that it always ends in a surprise. That follows trivially from the definition: if you knew what the problem was, you wouldn't be hunting for it. But experientially the surprises are often rather dramatic -- as if there's a built-in Agatha Christie plot generator -- and can be quite enjoyable as long as one's genius ego knows how to take a punch.
I've seen the last case on my "what are people Liking" page which consists of a bunch of iframes served by Facebook. Good to know it only affects FF.
Please don't take this HTC 1 as a good example of the interface fitting with the hardware. Look to some of the other examples cited elsewhere in this thread.

Like it was mentioned above, it seems that Kim's desire was to match the simple lines of the phone with a flat, simple interface. I think his proposed interface is poor at best. If you gave a really great UI designer this hardware to design against, you'd quickly understand the cohesion.
I designed a phone that looked exactly like this - black body, metal end caps - as part of a hinged phone concept I was working on in 2005. Apple doesn't have a monopoly on industrial design.
Exactly what I wanted to say. Maybe living in Israel teaches a lot about how good, and all too often bad, reporting is. Even the reporting considered the most "unbiased" in certain countries sounds, to me, like it's incredibly biased. Never mind which more accurate: it just goes to show that bias depends more on what you believe going into the new piece than what it contains.

After reading Seth Godin's "All Marketers are Liars", I've come to the realization that there is not truth, not in the sense people mean when they say "unbiased". Everything worth saying has a marketing spin. Everything people say to you goes through layers of previous beliefs. There is not such thing as "just the facts".

It's not even hard to "prove": take any reasonably controversial story that happened recently. The initial story already shows you what most people believe based on their first reactions. Any new piece of evidence that comes out doesn't have any effect on which side of the issue people are on: the "fact" is always somehow a proof that they are right. I've seen this happen very often, and yet people still seem to think that it's all facts.
actually I saw someone at the retro computer fair who'd done just that with a ZX spectrum: http://www.zxdesign.info/
Better yet, would be to make the city and time different sizes. Currently they carry the same visual weight so it's a list of

new york,9:00pm,seattle,6:00pm

instead of the intended

new york-9:00pm, seattle-6:00pm
I use Embed.ly for a side-project site I hacked together quickly (www.senioritis.com) and I love it.

The beauty of Embed.ly is that users can submit a link, my site calls out to Embed.ly, and Embed.ly returns HTML for embedding in the page. In my quick hack I don't even check whether Embed.ly can handle the link, etc. but just embed the HTML if the response isn't nil (though I understand the XSS risks and need to fix it).

Parse the JSON response of:
Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://api.embed.ly/v1/api/oembed?url=#{self.web_link}))

and you're set. I love how simple it is.

One thing re Embed.ly, their server sometimes takes some time to respond and so I recommend using DelayedJob. Right now my horrible hack just uses an after_create hook in rails to call the Embed.ly server in the same thread but sometimes that times out or has a noticeable delay.
Chrome has 1 textfield that's both used for search and for urls.

Related: I've found the search textfield in the Windows 7 START menu hugely useful. Just type 2 or 3 letters instead of browsing through folders of programs. 1 textfield + autocomplete = powerful for known-item searching.

And: Twitterbar adds more functionality (tweet) to the URL bar of Firefox.

One textbar is definitely the way to go, with as only downside that learnability goes down a little :)
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Is there anything Helvetica can't fix?
No, but putting the image of a Leica camera in there just seems cheesy to me.
The mayans predicted this very event. And the movie.
Interesting approach and I think it is a good direction. There are some differences though: sharing the files on the net is releasing them to a potentially broader audience. The patrons in a bar don't get to take home the music they listen to on their mp3 player. Maybe a comparison to unlicensed broadcasting is more appropriate?
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Let me ask - what's your goal from the news? Entertainment? Be informed? Looking for a career that would require knowledge of that sort?

If your goal is get a clear understanding of how the world works, I'd recommend you transition away from current events news and into reading history. Current events gives equal time, sometimes greater time, to people that are incredibly stupid and will be thoroughly discredited in a short time. If you were about the War on Drugs in the 1980s, you were getting some now-discredited nonsense. You would've been much better informed and able to predict outcomes by reading up on Prohibition in the USA or what happens during any era with a ban on a desired product.

History repeats itself - bans and prohibitions pretty much always go the same way. Black markets emerge to deliver the goods if they're desired, this increases the price of the good and makes it lucrative. But disagreements in this lucrative trade can't be arbitrated in court because the trade is illegal. Thus, disputes are settled by violence. The need for enforcers, arms, and protection outside of the law is conducive to gradually centralizing gangs, cartels, mafia, and other organized crime. This is pretty much always the way with prohibitions on desired goods throughout history - and you could easily predict that if you study history, but it's far too easy to get distracted by charismatic talking points in a debate over current events.

If you want to learn about the American financial crisis, you'd do well to learn about banking crises throughout history. If you want to learn about public education, you could do worse than starting to learn about the Prussian education system.

I've found much more insight in looking back at largely resolved things than trying to sort through the mess of what's going on. Then when I find myself out at dinner and it comes up, I can say something like, "Well, at XYZ time in Japan they did ZYX, and the result was ABC. Do you think that will happen with this policy in America?" Thus, you're useful to the discussion because instead of rehashing one of the two mainstream viewpoints you can get on the news, you introduce new facts, and you'll inevitably hear about the mainstream viewpoints during conversation, debate, and discussion anyways. History isn't as sexy or charged as mainstream news, but you wind up becoming much better informed in the end, and you'll most likely still pick up the main viewpoints of events as they unfold.
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Actually I would throw both Fox and MSNBC into the entertainment column. Liberal used to describe a set of values, but now is mostly an epithet.
The hardware and software would not necessarily be as distinct as it is in our technology. Alien technology might more closely resemble that of organic life, where the decision making processes are built into the physical structure of the system. Conceivably, these systems could also be designing through an evolutionary-like process, instead of the human engineering process.