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Funny. I made a similar comparison with Facebook. PG said that Yahoo was a de facto pyramid scheme, although ponzi scheme is a better analogy: http://blog.jperla.com/facebook-is-a-ponzi-scheme-0

>> By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto pyramid scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth. So they invested in new Internet startups. The startups then used the money to buy ads on Yahoo to get traffic. Which caused yet more revenue growth for Yahoo, and further convinced investors the Internet was worth investing in. When I realized this one day, sitting in my cubicle, I jumped up like Archimedes in his bathtub, except instead of "Eureka!" I was shouting "Sell!"
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I recall seeing a site, just forgot to bookmark it.
This is much more of a problem. You can't switch jobs every few months and expect people to continue hiring you.
Contractor can and usually does take on new projects all the time. So as a contractor when I hear 'Can you do X for us', the answer is usually yes, if it comes within our expertise area, but as an employee, especially freshly hired, you can't respond to every job interview request unless you really really intend to leave.
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To respond to your "If", I think Apple clearly does have a hacker culture. Even if we say it's a cult of Steve Jobs, I don't think it's a far cry to say Jobs is a consumer product hacker and a bit of a market hacker.

Two essential qualities of good hackers is an abundant ability to synthesize elegant solutions from disparate details, and a desire to create great things. Jobs may not write code but he clearly has these two qualities. So even if Apple does not have an engineer-centric culture, a design culture driven by Jobs can be directly compatible. You see the differences of course, in the products Google and Apple make, but I think the point is that great hackers can work at Apple because they can get behind Jobs vision.

Contrast this with a "suit-driven" company where decisions are made by looking at statistics and market research, and executives strategize about how to maximize sales based on the superficial product understanding they have. Even worse, places where you actually have people in power who couldn't give a crap about the product as long as they have a $500k+ salary rolling in every year.
Mine is actually cheaper... $75 annual for full coverage. And I think it's $75 because that's the minimum Progressive can charge for an annual policy.
I can see this working for traffic circles / roundabouts, as long as people know how to use them, and you have them. They're far simpler to use than a regular intersection. They're exceedingly rare in Wisconsin, for example, especially in any residential area that's more than about 20 years old. The cost of replacing intersections with them (especially as they're often bigger, to handle fire trucks, busses, and whatnot) would be astronomical. In the meantime, I'll take stop signs to nothing at intersections. There are too many rude people in the world, and it only takes one to ruin someone else's life.
1. Moore's Law is not an axiom, it's an observation.

2. NP and O(2^n) problems are not the same so your 'proof' doesn't help

3. Your proof did, however, make me laugh for its ingenuity.
For the first two months, ignore point the second and sleep when they sleep.
I don't think we need hollywood car crashes in real life.
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Might you be looking for one of these?

Request for Startups - http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html

Ideas - http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html
I don't think we are _teaching_ companies anything. This is the realm of PR and companies know a _lot_ more than us on PR.

Also if you believe that Google didn't get any advantage out of painting itself the defender of the netizen I think you are being naive. Google played the "we are more ethical than your profit-seeking corporation" and got a large group of followers because of that. Hence why those people now feel betrayed. You can't have your cake and eat it too. :)

And please, don't turn this into a false dichotomy. I am fine with Google doing whatever they want to do: whatever they did now was not illegal, just morally dubious. I don't need to be in favour of Microsoft or lock-ins just because I am against Google acting hypocritically. So stop bring out the boogeyman.
It also did help a lot with their revenue stream
Part 2 of the interview is now online: http://dailyjs.com/2010/08/11/ryan-dahl-part-2/
I'd love for this to come out in America. Everywhere I look, all I find is this junk: http://www.maruchan.com/maruchan_ramen.html
It can't be both?
You're giving them that much credit after reading the article?
Slightly Off-Topic: How safe are those application controlling URLs? Can one do a CRSF like <img src="camplus://enablevolumesnap" /> ?
Huh. So you can access the volume buttons without using a private API? Or did Apple's tools somehow fail to pickup that the app was linking to a private API? That would be news!
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It is written in a stupid way with lots of words without real content, but I think it actually has a paragraph that explains the problem quite well to "OMG - LOL" crowd:

P and NP are both a collection of problems whose solutions are “fast.” The question of P versus NP revolves around whether for all problems that a computer can quickly verify a solution (NP), if it can also quickly find a solution (P). We know that if we have quickly found a solution that we can quickly verify it, so P problems are a subset of NP ones. But the P versus NP problem asks the reverse (sorta): can something be easy to verify, but hard to solve? Are P problems always NP problems? Does P equal NP?
I concur. I don't know what it is about Down Under, but the coffee in Australia and New Zealand is superb. That's the first thing I get when I'm back after a trip overseas.
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Actually, you have some experience from your start-up. Babies and a start-ups have so much in common.

They both leave you sleepless, make you think about them all day, make you feel like they are the meaning of life, grow fast in front of your eyes, and interact with you more and more every single day. Well, congratulations!

I'm a hacker's wife and a non-technical co-founder. I and my husband are the two partners of our start-up.

You may start working on these issues:

* Read about baby care (birth to 6-8 weeks), and start chatting with your wife, so that you can start building your parenting style. Baby care is not difficult, but there are lots of different paths to follow. If you learn in advance, you will fell more confident and need less trial-and-error.

* It's best to limit your working plans for the 0-3 months, best scenario with a nice sleeping angel baby will still be quite hectic.

* Getting help from relatives, friends and even neighbours can do a lot of difference. You can take care baby, but it would be nice if someone can care for you in the meantime.

* If you have not yet, read about sleep depreviation. Motivate your wife to rest as much as she can during pregnancy and following birth.

* About the routine, it seemed not so important to me when I was pregnant, we were not the routine type of couple. It turned out to be very important. When you set a routine, baby knows what's next, so she relaxes and be much more cooperative. And when you know what's next, you can plan your day (no, not boring, believe me).

* Take your family outdoors frequently. It will help your wife to recover.

* You'd better spend some time evaluating baby products to be familiar with market. I'm not telling you to buy things in advance, but in some cases a small stupid-looking gadget can save you lots of time.

* Add some parenting blogs to your reader, especially some of those informative/experience sharing ones.

Good luck on your geek fatherhood journey!
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It really depends on the job you're leaving and the job you're going to. I often respond to interview requests, though I basically start the conversation with "I'm not really looking, but I don't mind talking to you." I'm not really an entry level employee, though.
> Moore's Law is not an axiom, it's an observation.

Look, a law's a law.
Wait a second, if it's going to have apps, what is the controller going to be like?

My guess: iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad is going to learn a new trick.
Imagine a driving game where the controller is your iPhone (accelerometer and gyroscope for control) the screen can be used to control gear, and watch stats.
If this is going to be true, the new Apple TV will seriously be something unique!
> I simply do not understand why there are not more competitors to PayPal

If you read the excellent interview with Max Levchin in Founders at Work, he alludes to the fact that PayPal is really just a state-of-the-art, best-in-class fraud detection system with a payment frontend. He also says that Banks are more conservative than PayPal - in that they can't go after a business model where there is going to be fraud - and the game is to minimize the losses.
Hmmm, wonder if Bruce Sewell, apples new counsel, who left Intel is attempting to claim he resolved the REAL PATENTGATE. Whose trying to steal my moniker of Patentgate otherwise. Right prior to Sewell's jumping from Intel, Sewell was notified of his involvement in the REAL PATENTGATE unfolding for a Trillion Dollar Heist of Intellectual Property from Iviewit Technologies and me, inventor, Eliot Bernstein. See
http://www.brucesewell.com/2010/03/eliot-bernstein-of-iviewi...

and

SEC Complaint @

https://docs.google.com/View?id=dgvpzjzw_9ghxg4km9

Apple too owes massive royalties to the iviewit inventors.

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Are we sure they snuck it in?

It's possible they disclosed it appropriately... Apple's policy allows easter eggs if they're disclosed confidentially to the appstore review team.
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You are correct. IMO Moore's is really an observation about the behavior of people producing technology under a system that rewards incremental improvement.
As a parent of two (3yrs and 10mo) there is serious truth to this. I can only assume that the down votes are because of the flippant way it was phrased, but let me offer this to the new and prospective pappas out there: you will be tired, busy, and frustrated. If you don't step back and take care of momma you can quickly find your relationship spiraling out of control because you no longer prioritize yourself or your wife.

A few thoughts:

(a) Schedule is key. Put the little buggers on a schedule and keep to it.

(b) The parent's bed is sacred, no child shall pass. We were very strict with this rule. Our kids have never been in our bed to sleep.

(c) Free time is key, one of the best things we did was get a nanny/house keeper on Saturday. That way we can leave the kids at home and go have a nice lunch together and maybe see a movie without the hassle of babysitters and late nights.

(d) Start waking up early, way early. Nearly 4 years into fatherhood I am still searching for the ways to attain my lost productivity. One of the biggest has been to simply wake up earlier. Kids bring about a new world order. Accept and move on and embrace the 4:30 wakeup.
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Well. The results are all that we have to go by. Also Google is promoting this as the legislative arrangement that should be pushed without any mention about what they hoped to achieve and couldn't.
Wait, what? Are you saying that Verizon is given a final version of a mobile 18 months before it is sold? And what does the phone manufacturer do in the meantime?

And wouldn't that mean that on Verizon you would get the same phone that is sold on AT&T (or around the world) one year later? Or is the manufacturer supposed to wait one year after AT&T has approved it but Verizon hasn't, and cannot even sell it to AT&T?

Sorry, you seem to know what you are talking about, could you explain your point a bit better? Thanks.
Why do you need permission to post your own writing? Do you sign some kind of NDA when you enter a phd program?
Yeah that probably explain why their customer service is horrible, they see it as an afterthought. I don't have an issue with them trying to kill fraud but there needs to be better communication between Paypal and it's business customers.

I wouldn't be surprised if at one point the government come in and tries to apply credit card regulation to them if thats not already the case.
If they "didn't mean much" Google would have removed them. They make Google millions.

Obscuring other peoples advertising is a douchebag move.
Just because someone hit a bad patch does not mean they needed to.

The obvious solution to me would be a pico controller connected to the pump with a stopwatch battery backup. Basically it turns on for an hour starting at say 2AM but ignores the time when the power is out. Total cost per unit should run between 1$ and 5$ depending on build quality and interface.

You could even add pressure, flow, and or temperature sensors to notice if something was wrong and or use more water when it's hot etc. But that's probably overkill 90% of the time.

PS: Texting a cell phone is not a bad idea, but it requires someone to be awake at 3am when you want to turn it on and adds several failure modes it also costs more money.
He forgot to mention it has an extremely large number of false positives using that system. The reason it might work is because they take/freeze money from innocent customers. The amount of horror stories about Paypal significantly outnumber the horror stories about regular banks or credit card companies.
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I believe the duct-taped reference is an attempt to get Western audiences to think about the article in the same light as Indian ones who understand the term Jugaad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad) loosely termed, "innovative fix". Although when I think of duct tape, I immediately conjure the term "cheap hack or fix", not the Jugaad connotation:

Jugaad is a survival tactic, whereas a hack is an intellectual art form; i.e. Jugaad is the wile of the poor, and hack the pastime of the affluent cerebral. Jugaad is a hack to get around or deal with a lack of or limited resources, and has a class component to it - jugaad are things that poor but clever people do to make the most of the resources they have. They do what they need to do, without regard to what is supposed to be possible.

Read the Wikipedia article as there's some cultural background that a non-Indian would fail to get about the richness of the term.
This is probably the least correct thing I've ever read.
Your link doesn't support your claim -- the costs of wages and pensions aren't even shown in it.

That's probably because your claim is incorrect. Consider:

http://srph.it/bpv3RU -
The deficit facing U.S. public pension funds will grow to $2 trillion, according to an interview that the chairman of New Jersey's pension fund, Orin Kramer, gave to the FT. "Estimates of aggregate funding requirement of the US pension system have ranged between $400bn and $500 bn, but Mr Kramer's analysis concluded that public funds would need to find more than $2,000bn to meet future pension obligations."

http://www.globalaging.org/pension/us/2010/analysis.htm -
The multibillion-dollar pension funds that promise to pay lifetime benefits to millions of the USA's retired teachers are more than $900 billion in the red, a new analysis shows. ... Actually, Pew said, the $1 trillion figure "likely underestimates the bill coming due" because it doesn't fully reflect "severe investment declines" in 2008.

http://www.globalaging.org/pension/us/socialsec/stanford.htm - (noting that this refers to California, rather than Federal)
"The simulation shows that the state would need to invest more than $200 billion, and possibly as much as $350 billion, today to return the fund to a minimum responsible level of funding," said Bornstein, who noted that the figure is approximately four times the current state budget.
Paypal is already a bank in the EU.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Bank_status
OTOH, Wiles work on Fermat's Last Theorem was major news in 1993 and 1994.
Although I generally dislike App Store model, I'd say this is a fair ban in the context of Apple's rules. They'd outlawed that functionality, so they removed the app when they tried to sneak it back in. This is perfectly logical.

However, if users want the functionality enough to bother going to secret URL to enable it, perhaps the rule is a bad one. Users clearly want something as simple as using a physical button to take a picture, but Apple won't let them because it violates their guidelines. On one hand, this means apps are consistent and follow Apple rules, but on the other hand, it means you simply cannot have a ridiculously simple feature simply because Apple says so. Would you rather have consistency or freedom?
And let's not forget the very useful and free Yahoo Pipes.
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
I used moderation every minute of every day, but I decided to stop using moderation altogether and now I feel immoderate.

Regarding cell phones, I haven't carried one for years, since I was a consultant, and it was necessary. People look at me like I am insane, and they cannot imagine how I function in modern society. I am called a Luddite, even though I am far more deeply and enthusiastically involved with technology than they ever will be.

Sometimes, trying to arrange spontaneous social gatherings, I wish I had one, but that is rare. I carry an iPad, which does mitigate, since I can exchange texts, and receive voicemail via Google Voice.

Primarily, though, I don't feel empowered, but I do feel that my deep indignation of other people's cell phone related rudeness is more pure if I don't carry one.

Edit: typos.
Eric Schmidt is a hacker... He even wrote lex.
I hear way too many stories about this. I was even paying a company through PayPal when they had their account frozen and their money taken. 3 times. The company continued to use them because so many of their customers demanded PayPal. They had continued to use PayPal because it was cheaper to lose their funds (they regularly withdrew) than the customers. After the third time losing everything in their account, they finally had to tell their customers 'no PayPal' and live with the consequences.

Yes, you read that right... PayPal took every cent in their account 3 times. And there's no law against it.
Are you familiar with epassporte?

https://www.epassporte.com/

One of the reasons why newcomers have relatively little chance is because credit card companies hate start-ups that do wallet systems.
I really find it hard to wrap my head around that explanation.

Just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with monitoring and reacting to the volume control.

There is nothing wrong with taking pictures.

There is no "functionality" used that isn't permitted.

What they did was -- for users who overtly WANTED the functionality -- tie the volume control to taking a picture, only when their app is front and forward. Apple doesn't like this because they want to keep every app in the painted lines. However, yes, it's primarily a kick in the balls of every user who went out of their way, demonstrating that they wanted this usability. Apple has a stunning arrogance when it comes to how the product that you paid for should work.
Why are the names of Eric Reis and Steve Blank there? Are they involved? If not, make that more clear, else it looks to me like you are trying to sell your services by using their names to promote it..
stockholm syndrome much?
I really think that P can be equal to NP, just the algorithm can be very chaothic, based on pseudonumber generators, and very-hard-to-analyze emerging behaviour.
For others to have an initial 'feeling' on this, I've created a polynomial time algorithm which tries to find N/2 cliques in a graph: It is already true for this quite simple algorithm that analyzing the correctness of the algorithm is harder than creating the algorithm itself:

http://nadamhu.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/the-good-guys-and-ba...
Maybe because they've already made bank and are sick of dealing with the app store? With those kind of profits, Apple should be accomodating them, not vice versa.
There is some awesome advice already here so I've little to add, other than:

- Don't expect a normal routine for the first 4 months. Don't expect anything normal for a few years after either.

- Sleep when the baby sleeps! (yeah, been said many many time already, but worth once more)

- Once the baby gets into a routine of regular sleep you can figure out times that work for you. So work at night while the baby sleeps but be sure to have a solid plan to be able to get sleep later...

- Through all this don't forget your wife/partner. Post-partum depression, stress of parenthood, sleep deprivation. You need to make sure you're there for each-other first and foremost. If you can't take care of yourselves, its harder to take care of a baby.

- Take time to enjoy parenthood. My oldest daughter is 2 and a bit now and its like she was just born yesterday and its gone so fast (then again it seems like she's been here forever - go figure)

Congrats!
Federal workers are also in a niche where it is hard to beat down wages. You can't send their jobs overseas as you could with steel workers or call center workers. You can't usually hire illegal immigrants (or non-citizens generally) as you can with painters, construction workers, etc. So their wages have been resistant to some of the trends that have hammered other wage-earners.
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Moore's law says that transistor count increases exponentially, and it gives the rate of increase.

You may find the exponential increase in other "system[s] that rewards incremental improvement." But the rate of increase is specific. Also, say, fuel economy in cars did not grow exponentially, also one might argue that it is part of a similar system.

(Or did (and does) it increase exponentially? Anyone having any data?)
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I'm reminded of JWZ's article http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/phones.html

One of the latest tactics that the headhunters have been using is to begin with a line like ``Hey, I used to be an engineer! But now I'm hanging out here doing recruiting, cool huh?''
20k per year? Wow. Even the most expensive family plans I've seen for family with pre-existing conditions was around $1100/month - $13k. I feel like I'm getting ripped off and we only pay around $300/month!
a law's a law

That's an axiom, not a law.