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I wish I could know the reason why they did all that and if they would say the same about going to college if you were a more "typical" age. Most parents negative reactions to early college is usually along the lines of "it's too early!" and not much more. Some even feel that ridiculous numbers of honors/AP/equivalent classes at the middle/high school are a better substitution.

(personal opinion butting in: college at 12 and college at 16 and college at 19 are totally different experiences..not necessarily intellectually, but in every other way, which is arguably a big part of it).

And I don't think he should be forced to not study, but rather to study what he wants when he wants to without his parents' influence. We all change, how does he know sooo surely that he wants to dedicate that much effort/time to that subject for sure?
"a single guy who was unable to make something scale"

Allegedly. Nobody outside of Twitter knows the whole story.
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It's not free. Google get's your information in return. Almost every service they have is optimized for gathering information.

For example, I bet the first address most users type into Google Earth is their own home address.
I think the negative TC articles get blown way out of proportion--I'm generally surprised by how positive and free of tough judgment the coverage on TC is. People often point out how positive they are to YC companies, but if you do the math, they're positive to almost all small companies. Bigger companies catch plenty of flack--but that's OK, they can take it.

If you add'em all up, though, TC is a pretty resoundingly positive site--it's snarky (in a TMZ kinda way), but it's generally good-natured ribbing of the sort that takes place all the time at events in the valley. Just tonight, a bunch of folks were hanging out at Bistro 412 in Palo Alto making fun of the Web 2.0 "business model", venture capitalists, and anything else that came up. Doesn't mean everybody who was there doesn't like the industry or the people in it.
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Amazing, that perfectly resonates with how i see it :)
Also from a long view, the future does keep getting better. It isn't a straight line, but it probably looks like one if you zoom out a bit.
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For people who are generally capable of doing big things, I posit that the deciding factor isn't so much of whether one thinks they can do it, but rather whether one decides they want to do it. If you went on to work on the Theory of Everything, before you reach any results you'd probably be saying "I'm still working on it" instead of "I think it's too hard for me," no? For most others it's much different, and haha, it seems like you fall into the former group.
The interesting thing is why Kindle is selling so well, and why exposure to an actual unit seems to convert people far more quickly than one would expect from similar units (the sony version though slicker looking is not doing nearly as well).

My take is that, as with the iPod it's the service element that makes the device (any book you want, any time you want, any where you want) so compelling.

And I've seen a fair amount of anecdotal evidence of non-geeks confiscating Kindle's from early adopters; which coupled with the Kindles decidedly unsexy design suggests that there is a much deeper pent up demand for what the kindle has to offer than there was for the ipod.

It's a big wave forming up and it's ripe for riding; what could be built to supply the Kindle Ecosystem?
Excellent companion piece to the recent post on the Narcissism of small changes.

I think it's surprisingly easy for developers to forget that at the heart of the matter, their job is to provide business value to customers, and that computers and programming languages and algorithms and data structures and methodologies and design patterns are merely means to that end.

Personally, I'm a fan of a good fixed-point function, and am heavily drawn to the academic side of things; but I recognize that there's a time and place for this fascination to play itself out, and it's usually not in production code.
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also the 3 guys in garage don't have the luxury of access to so many servers and money...
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Yeah, I wish they worked on compatibility, stability, and security instead of making the damn thing even more of a resource hog.
This is a really neat webapp!
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You get better social interaction when working on open source projects. The people you're interacting with actually want to spend their free time working on software. So instead of "interacting" with some dude off the street that needs some money, you interact with people who you can learn from.

And yes, you can work on open source in 'real life'.
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Have you read http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=114652287210110&w=... ?

Sure Debian made a mistake, and they shouldn't make changes that they don't understand the effects of, but an OpenSSL developer _did_ say it wouldn't be a problem.

Instead of passing the blame I would rather see the parties involved working on the underlying issues.
However cool this development is, and it is pretty darn neat, there's going to have to be a lot of optimization done before it's viable for... well, anything. One of the demos I played with managed to peg my 8 CPU cores to 100% while it tried to process the image.
I am going through this process at the minute and some of the techniques I have used are:

1) Putting your name into a common phrase:

Because I am doing a start-up which involves searching and finding information, I imagine using a name in the following phrases:

"Just _______ it";
"_______ search it";
"_______ it";
"Look on ______";
"Have you searched _______?";
"Have you looked on _______?";
"It's on ________";
"Just use ________";
"I use ________";
"Powered by _______";

2) Only use words that have two or three syllables:

Names like Google and Amazon work because they only have two to three syllables, making them more memorable and punchier. Having more syllables soon makes the name forgettable and easily misspelt; having one syllable lacks emphasis.

3) Pick a name that has no direct relevance to your business and from which the focus of your business cannot be guessed; but do base it on something that sounds remotely real or familiar:

This is for a number of reasons. First, it allows you to easily move out of your current business area and into different ones; e.g. if Amazon called itself 'The Bookstore' then their ability to sell CD's, household appliances and web services might have been hampered because people will think that a bookstore won't be able to sell web services very well. Second, having a name that is too obviously related to the type of business your in makes it harder to get a trade mark (at least in the UK it does). Another example would be the mobile phone net work Orange because 'Orange' has nothing to do with phones, just like 'Amazon' has nothing to do with books, but both make people think "Amazon/Orange? What do they do?". Third, basing it on something that is remotely real or familiar adds a bit if credibility and doesn't immediately alienate people - Amazon is a river and forest, Orange is a colour and Google is a real number. Even names like Zoho trigger an association to something real since it sounds similar to Soho, which is a place in London.

4) Don't use names that can be easily mispronounced:

Mispronounced names can lead to misunderstanding and misspelling, which, in turn, can lead to frustration for the user. If you do pick a name that can be easily mispronounced, just misspell it intentionally in order to force the reader to pronounce it properly, e.g. is 'reileigh' supposed pronounced ree-lee, ree-lay, ray-lee, ray-lay - which ever it is, spell it phonetically. If you have to tell people how to say your name, then it's probably not a good name.

I think that's all for now. And no, I haven't found a good name yet!
At this juncture, a professor stops being a professor and becomes a colleague.

EDIT: What I am trying to say is that a professor/student relationship is one of inequality. When the relationship moves beyond only one side influencing the course of discussion/discovery, then a relationship of equals is established, albeit a relation of equals where one side is more equal than the other (and that relationship may swap over the course of time).
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That is good to hear, because I am very frugal.
Native 3D in Flash? I can add a 3D view to http://openphotovr.org and beat Photosynth at their own game. By the way, anybody here interested in participating? It's open source now (GPL).
One ugly thing rarely mentioned about this "rise of contextual user interfaces" is the decline of providing alternatives for non-javascript users. Try disabling JS and clicking the contextual menu arrow at the book site mention in the article, http://www.shelfari.com.

Oh, don't have Javascript enabled?! Forget using all those convenient options! In fact, there's not much of anything you can do on the site w/o JS on and you can especially forget all the contextual menus, which do not seem to have non-JS counterparts at all!

This is an alarming trend, at least to me. Yes, there are times when you can make some convenience functionality in JS and not have to worry about when users don't have it on. But to base an entire menu structure on it, menus that can be accessed no other way? That's sort of a step backwards, isn't it?

They also kind of ripped off the bookshelf design from Delicious Library, but that's neither here nor there I suppose.
How prodigious do you have to be for society to push you along like this? I accelerated a lot, because I wanted to get to the good stuff, and I felt burned out occasionally when I did too much pointless work unrelated to what I liked, but otherwise was fine, even in the heavier semesters.

Basically, I figure there are two reasons to accelerate. One, it's dumb to waste time on things that don't matter (like the two years of high school math over which are distributed about six weeks of material, also known as algebra II and precalculus); you wouldn't want to waste your life in high school any more than you'd want to waste your adult life.

Two, you have only so many years of real productivity, I'd say between about 18 and 39 (upper bound varies by field and individual), and you want to spend as many of them as you can doing real work that has an effect on the world, rather than education.
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>Arc is unfinished. It's missing things you'd need to solve some types of problems. But it works well for basic web apps.
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Sounds like a nice disruptive technology. I'm curious to see how it plays out.
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We are quite lucky that so many high quality video lectures are being posted online for free! I love them all!
What do you mean by "status?"
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Obviously what I meant is that the core language is tuned for exploratory programming.

Also, I disagree with his criteria. Speed isn't really important for it. And dynamic typing, which he omits, is very important.
Arc is inexplicably lacking trig, exp, and log

Okay, I haven't used Arc in a while -- existing Scheme codebase -- but Arc is built on PLT, which is compliant with R5RS, which does include basic math functions:

http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bigloo/doc/r5rs-9.html

(search for sin, cos, etc).

Did Arc forget how to talk to the numerics library? Rebind "cos" "sin" and "exp"? Is this guy just being stupid?

'splain me please.
This analyst doesn't seem to understand the concept of early adopters. Based on the slimmest evidence, he concludes Amazon has sold 30,000 of the things. Even so, that implies nothing about the future sales. We're still solidly in the territory of people who'd buy one out of curiosity.
Yea, 10,000 servers is a serious number - is that actually an accurate figure?
That was actually really great. Succint, easy to read - thanks for posting it here.
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Do you believe then that the bottom 10% of all employees on every job should be fired to make way for those people who have the drive and ambition to work?
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If you want a real answer, read 2-4 books. If you want a pithy, poorly explained 2-4 sentence overview, then here's my attempt: debt financing is attractive to startups since they can often get favorable terms on the debt (one year payment and/or interest free). Investors often like convertible debt since it is less risky than a straight investment; i.e. debt is paid before any profits are paid. Investors also will generally have the option to convert the debt to equity later on at today's valuation. Why is it often done for hardware? Easy: collateral.
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Certainly. Jack Welch had a similar policy while running GE. Get rid of the dead weight and reward those who outperform.

EDIT: It's simply a matter of economics. When you realize that a project is performing poorly you sever it to prevent further waste.
I tried to follow the article but I just couldn't. I don't understand it at all.
Right now I'd be far more inclined to still use SitePoint's, as their reference appears to be much more through, including extensive commentary on cross-browser differences. See

http://reference.sitepoint.com/css/background
http://code.google.com/docreader/#p(doctype)s(doctype)t(BackgroundCSSProperty)

This isn't to say that Google's documentation project won't get better, as it is an open project; but right now it's borderline useless IMHO.
Atlanta is a great community for startups actually. Check out http://www.gesnow.com/ - these guys have lots of experience and can help you. Plus you have Georgia Tech.

You come to these boards, 9/10 ppl will say "Move to the valley" b/c they are in the valley. Living in the valley is like going to a really great school - you make connections, you know people, you network with the brightest minds. But would you say that only people that go to the best schools can start and grow companies? No - and it's the same with starting/moving to the valley.
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He doesn't even mention why it's the best of times for developers.

With open source tools and cheap hardware, broadband, and hosting, the barriers to entry asymptotically approach zero.

So now the key differentiator is what's between your ears and what's in your heart. For a hacker, what could be better than that?
My mother believed my university studies at the normal age of eighteen were largely a waste of money as well. It's a good thing I had all of my tuition paid by the state and most of my housing and food paid for by scholarships. She said something to the effect one time: "You're eighteen. My financial support is over." I can't blame her for that as legally she's not entitled to do anything for me anymore as I had reached the age of majority, but it sure says a lot coming from a mother.
My experience is that in the corporate world (i.e. non software products) women dominate IT. I once had the pleasure to work in an IT department where I was the only male.
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Here's a link to support my statement.

EDIT: Wikipedia is good enough for this off-the-cuff reference.
Better than that? Success and fame? ;)
Good times online indeed, but if you're one of the many Americans caught up in the housing-boom-bust none of that matters when trying to pay your mortgage. Is there a web app that will lower my mortgage payments? Or maybe someone on Twitter that can sell my first home? I keed I keed.
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That quote ("Prodigies [inevitably] become ex-prodigies.") reminds of something I read earlier this week that goes something like this: "The problem of being too young lessens over time."

The quote aneesh's professor gave reminds me of the "This too shall pass" parable. That story is as powerful as any I've ever read. I bet that there's not a day goes by that I don't find myself saying "This too shall pass": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_too_shall_pass
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When Digg/Reddit and the other social news sites got big a few years back I ditched News.com almost completely because they delivered tech news stories faster. These days with Digg's new larger audience (and less tech focus) I am spending more time at News.com than Digg (Reddit still a regular)
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Its actually not that bad, but it really depends on your browser. I've been throwing together (meaning not at all finished) a tower defense game using it (http://www.willarson.com/code/processing/ptd.html), and it plays amazingly quickly on the current release version of Safari, and plays just slightly slower (but still perfectly, just a different in how quickly frames are processed) in the beta 5 of FireFox 3. On the other hand, in the release version of Camino it runs horrifically.

There are a ton of issues with it, in particular not working on IE at all, some features needing beta browsers, etc, but I don't think that speed is going to be one of the more important limiting factors. I imagine the demo you looked at was doing something pretty crazy, either visually or in the code ;)
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I don't know precisely what the grandparent was asking, but many of us are curious about two things. First, when the next release will happen, since the previous release was 80 days ago. Second, what new features/functions/libraries are being added to the language; presumably some of the things from your poll at http://arclanguage.org/item?id=4070
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This is exactly the opposite of my story.

My father taught me to read when I was 2 and from that point on, everyone encouraged my parents to "fast track" me. I was tested, examined, and prodded by psychologists, doctors, teachers, and "experts". I even passed the preschool entrance exam before my older brother (he's been paying me back ever since lol).

Finally one day, my father, of all people, said enough. I would mainstream with all the other kids because he didn't want me to be a "freak". To this day, I really don't know if it was a wise decision or a snap judgement.

So I sat in class, bored to tears for the next 12 grueling years. Looking back, I had no choice but to "let my love of something pull me" as the OP said. So I learned a musical instrument, started several small businesses, made home movies, and published my own magazine. I excelled in everything outside of school and did poorly in class. I wonder what college admissions officers thought about a self-published C student with perfect SAT scores. I think my magazaine did more for my future that anything from school.

After a great college experience, I spent years of torture in corporate cubicles, bored to death no matter what the job was. Only when I found a way to do my own software startup, did everything fall into place for me. I'm finally living the life I was always meant to live.

So this would-be prodigy ended up being a late bloomer. I don't know whether this is better or worse, but I sure am glad I finally ended up where I belong.

Thanks for thought stoking essay, DaniFong.
Author makes a good point about DRM controlling how we consume content and not about fighting piracy. Kind of reminds me of the "war on drugs".
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Why is speed not important?

Edit: How is speed not important?
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what's being explored? is c++ better than arc for this "exploring" ... it has more libraries ;)

i wonder why people are not writing more apps in arc. there seems to be a lot of activity porting it to different environemnts, writing compilers, optimizers, creating a repository .... but no app. (other than hacker news)
Amazing how the craptacular iTunes is used as an example of a 'good' UI from Apple. Apple makes some great UI's and software, iTunes is not one of them.
All due respect, but, did you read the rest of the mailing list, or, for that matter, my original comment? He didn't clear the change; he said it was fine for debugging, before other OpenSSL people corrected him.

There's no "problem" to fix here. Really! The problem is that Debian made an elective style-guide patch to OpenSSL based solely on Valgrind output. The "fix" to the problem is to back the patch out and make sure everyone's system is update.

The only underlying issue that needs to be fixed here is for Debian to never, ever independently modify OpenSSL (or any other crypto code) again. I think that's reasonable at this point. This is one of the worst crypto vulnerabilities I've ever seen, far worse than when OpenSSL and NSS broke RSA.
True.

I was always too introverted to make lots of friends, too small for sports, too plain looking for girls to notice me, and never had much money or connections. So I had to work my butt off for everything I ever got.

And finally, finally, finally the world has changed just enough so that people like me have a much easier time staking our claim in the world. Don't forget, it hasn't been like this for very long.

For creative hard working people with something between their ears and not much else, it truly is the best of times, no matter how much fame and success you achieve. That's the point I was trying to make.
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