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If you ask me, the best way to invest the $2 million mentioned in the article in order to retire comfortably would be rental property. Take your $2 million and buy four $500K houses (or eight $250K houses, or whatever's appropriate). Pay an agent to take care of them, or do it yourself, depending on how much involvement you want. That should yield maybe $8,000 a month in rent, which after you've taken care of all the extra costs should still be enough to live on quite comfortably. Any capital gains you enjoy (and if you're smart you'll have invested in an up-and-coming area) are a bonus.

The best part is that you don't need to leave some money on the table to hedge against inflation, since in the long term rent will pretty much keep pace with inflation.

There are areas where this is a completely terrible idea due to rent controls and other landlord-unfriendly policies, obviously you shouldn't do it there. Also, avoid any area where you're likely to get undesirables as tenants.
Hilariously, I called this 2 years ago in response to a TechCrunch article that said Android would fail.

http://mattmaroon.com/2008/08/18/android-ftw/
Die hard OpenBSD fan. ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/kc-bike/2894306940/ )

The primary functional differences are a more mature code base (I didn't say more technically advanced or superior) and in general a unified system. What most people have come to know as "Linux" or "GNU/Linux" is a kernel mashed together with the GNU userland. And most distributions then further pile things onto it, kind of assuming they know what kinds of things the end-user will want to do, and picking a few applications that will help the end-user accomplish those tasks. Maybe it's Gnome, OpenOffice, Firefox and Pidgin.

The BSDs provide a system. The kernel and userland are maintained and enhanced by the same group of people. There's a bit more control in what's provided in the base system.

After installing Free/Net/OpenBSD Users are generally left with a text-mode login console where a small subset of non-BSD-based things are installed but often not active. X.Org may be ready to go, as may Apache, lynx and some others. In the case of OpenBSD, these tools are often patched considerably before packaged with the base OS.

Want something other than twm for your Window Manager? Want a graphical web browser? An office productivity suite? You can install them easily via binary packages, or use the ports system.

If you've used Gentoo or Arch Linux, you will probably find that the ports system (/usr/ports/* if you installed it) is familiar.

I use OpenBSD quite a bit, even on the desktop. It's fast, free, and very robust. It's also probably the most strictly audited operating system code base in existence. Those guys (like me) are pedantic when it comes to security.

I highly suggest you fire up one of them (OpenBSD or FreeBSD, I'd suggest) in a VM and give it a shot. VirtualBox is free. NetBSD is primarily geared toward maximum portability between hardware platforms. I personally think that's the only thing it's got over OpenBSD.

I used to be a FreeBSD fan before 5.x. The team had a really rough time after Jordan left for Apple. I became disenchanted and haven't really given it the time of day for almost a decade now. It's probably a fine OS.
Actually, rsync.net is owned by the same people who run JohnCompanies.com, which is an excellent FreeBSD virtual hosting company.
The fact that there is a market for point solutions like this always amazes me -- but we needed one ourselves in the early days, when we wanted to run a customer survey but were too busy building the product to write one.
I think Panama City and Panama in general is the city of the future in this hemisphere. It is strategic to the chinese who are modernizing the canal, and the canal provides funding for the government. They are getting the best and the brightest as they seek to escape Venezuela and Chavez. They had a housing boom and bust, but Panama City is likely to replace Miami as the center of Latino commerce.

Costa Rica is right next door. They are very laid back. Both countries have 90 day tourist visas. So you can live in one full time by taking a weekend vacation to the other every 89 days and getting your passport stamped.
That is, until Apple gets on another carrier in the U.S. We all know it’s going to happen, it’s just a question of when. Will it be early next year? Next Summer?

Next winter? Next solar eclipse? Next ice age? Seriously, did anybody who saw this headline not know it was authored by Siegler?
As a Linux user, OpenBSD feels to me like using my father's old tools. They are old, have some funny practices, and aren't always pretty, but they are phenomenally functional, simple, fantastic at what they do, and when used properly virtually impossible to break.

Similarly, OpenBSD is sometimes trailing in features, and as a desktop with a pretty UI and all the most recent packages, it did very poorly. But as a server, IMHO it is fantastic.

To give you an idea of the beautiful simplicity; the OpenBSD install environment is... a kernel. You download a kernel that's a couple of megabytes, boot it as if it was any other kernel, it asks you for your install source, and then continues with other questions. That's it.
No, there were lots of people who don't explicitly predict crashes, who still called this one. Michael Lewis' The Big Short is a fun overview. The Greatest Trade Ever is also good; the protagonist of that one is a merger arb, not a doom-sayer. And of course, countless people sold when they found prices too high.

It seems very obvious to me that the establishment has to buy into it for a bubble to exist. Prices peak when optimism peaks, so you'll necessarily be able to point to people in authority who were too optimistic. The only alternative to that is a) for prices to undershoot rhetoric (arbitrage opportunity!) or b) for prices to never go down (result: buying is a safe bet, causing a bubble, leading to a crash).

What I am suggesting is simply that there is no bubble in education nor can there be. Whatever the number of people that are educated so the better it is.

This is what we call a "Bubble mentality". No P/E too high; it's the Internet! No collateral too poor; it's the ownership society! You clearly don't believe that; you would not be happy if, e.g., we were starving because every farmer decided to finish his Masters in English lit. There is a right amount of education, and it is not an arbitrarily large amount. What I'm pointing out is that by every measurable quantity, we're paying more and more for something of less and less value.

Education you see is very different to an eighteen year old than to someone who has gone through life so well perhaps and has the freedom to provide us his wisdom through the internet. That eighteen year old perhaps your have forgotten does not actually quite know yet who he is or the nature of reality. Higher education provides him a good grasp of that.

Not sure what you're trying to say. I'm 23.

Education is beneficial. That doesn't mean it's worth trading anything of value for any extra amount of it. It is precisely this kind of thinking that leads to other bubbles.
So because your friend managed to get a crazy-good deal on one property, everyone else is sheep?

Arbitrage opportunities do exist in the current market due to the current craziness, but the present foreclosure pace can't last forever. I don't know how long "70% of MLS" has been "the #1 rule of real estate investing", but how easy was it to snap up properties for those prices in 2005?
The comment above (and piaw's reply) should be getting more attention. He's not talking about overall work experience. He's talking about promotion.

In my experience so far, Google is not the kind of company that's going to come find you in the trenches and pat you on the back and give you a cookie. You have to seek that out yourself if you care about it.

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Brown has very liberal grading policies and you can even take all of your courses pass/fail.

There really isn't much of a required curriculum either.

If you are only taking classes that you actually wish to take or see the value in taking and then have less burden worrying about grades/your CPA is it really surprising that they are the happiest?
really usb auto-mounting is shiny? that shit should just work.
I guess it's a bit late, but I was joking. If it were truly light, I wouldn't have mentioned (noticed) it.

I'll put smileys next to jokes next time, OK?
The clicking the "WHAT THE FUCK IS MY SOCIAL MEDIA "STRATEGY"?" header also loads a new strategy but is above the text and stays in the same place.
Yep, especially if it gives them a lot of useful information about you to target ads to you in the rest of the googleverse.
"His belief was that it was likelier to get worse before it got better and that it could be 10 years or more before the economy bounced back. “I think we’ll see Dow 4,000 before we see Dow 12,000,” he told me."

sure but as long as you believe the economy is going to bounce back over 10 years then if you took a good piece of your $5m and simply put it into an index fund now, in ten years (retirement) time you'd have a very healthy return on it.

i don't agree that now is a bad time to invest. i believe now is a bad time to invest for returns over the shorter/medium term but if you're talking about investing over a retirement time scale then it's during periods like the one we are in where big returns can be made.
Why stop there? Government could monitor all potential bank robber's communications, or hell, even profile them, send in undercover agents to infiltrate their circles and provide them with fake bank-robbing tools, ideal target bank locations, and moral support.
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Some recents:

Surely You're Joking Mr Feynmann is a good read.

As is Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle

As is Hugh Laurie's The Gun Seller

And I'm just getting into Orwell's Keep The Aspidistra Flying which is quite good too.
AMD designed the 64-bit architecture.
In USSR where I grew up Rand was completely unknown, unlike many other American authors

I've discovered her recently on Quora and was really surprised. It was like discovering antimatter, composed of antiparticles each of which annihilates some familiar idea

The strange thing is it came so late
Sure, as long as I can contact you via email for feedback on one of my projects in the near future :)
Nice to hear a VC admit that:

Market > Execution

Vision > Product

This reminds me of Marc Andressen's post "The only thing that matters":
http://web.archive.org/web/20071011023653/blog.pmarca.com/20...
Customer loyalty is nice ofcourse, and Apple scores well in that department. Of the iPhone owners who were asked, an extraordinary 89% indicated they'd buy another iPhone.

What's more telling is that 29% of the Android phone owners said they did not want another Android phone, and 72% of those people said their next phone would be an iPhone.

As for Blackberry, it's all downhill for RIM from here on out. Of all Blackberry owners, only 42% answered that they'd buy another Blackberry, and 69% of those who wanted to switch would choose an iPhone.

http://gigaom.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/smartphone-switch....
I definitely would have found this very helpful when I got married. Too bad you didn't release it last year!

- It would be awesome if you could print your own table place cards directly from the table arrangement section. Or at least export your guest list to Excel so you can mail merge it.

- The vendors page needs some sort of spreadsheet/table like interface so you can compare costs of vendors you are vetting but haven't necessarily selected yet.
I have not worked on mainframes per se. But I was once tasked with investigating why a particular project to replace a mainframe process with a modern Java one failed.

Basically, the mainframe is FAST. Everything is simple there. The process in question was more or less a COBOL stored procedure doing a bunch of lookups in an incredibly denormalized DB2 database. The entire batch job would take less than 15 minutes on the mainframe of which this particular process was only a small fraction.

Now, the Java app to replace the mainframe process was apparently written by some smart dudes that had gone on to make lots of cash doing more exciting things by the time I got there. The replacement system was what lots of naive people drinking the Hibernate Kool-Aide were writing back then. The database was normalized to the extreme, it had a hierarchical object model that was mapped to objects with Hibernate, had a slick web interface, and so on. Well it ran like balls. It got exponentially slower as data was added. The administrative interface took 30 minutes to save a setting. This new process would increase the runtime of the overall batch by an estimated 10 hours. So I looked at it, and with another guy cleaned up a bunch of bad SQL and Hibernate.

The administrative interface got shaved down to seconds for a post. But in the end the overhead alone of marshaling and unmarshaling XML for the service calls was enough to push the batch process a full two hours longer than the mainframe one. Which, by the way, was unacceptably long for the 1 hour maximum processing window allotted to the batch.

OK, I know what you're saying. That's when you bring in the cloud and run a bunch of parallel instances and such and such. Or dump XML and use some kind of raw binary message format. But shit. The mainframe already did all that with a single threaded COBOL stored procedure in under 15 minutes. Needless to say, today they're still using that same old COBOL stored procedure and they're still making money hand over fist.

So yeah. Big companies spend lots of money trying to get off the mainframe every year. Believe me, I have personally witnessed tens of millions of USD lost to failed mainframe replacement projects by developers who think they know better. It's not like some manager looked at the the estimate and said "hell no." Actually they said, "Hell yes! My top architects say the mainframe is dead. I will write a check for $50 million dollars right now because that is nothing compared to the $10 billion in revenue we make." It's just not as easy as it looks.
Well, I meant in terms of "plug it in and it appears on your desktop". When I'm coding, I don't have a desktop, nor any wish for one. All I do on this box -- by design -- is code and spend too much time on e-mail/HN/reddit/etc.

If I need to work with a digital camera or a flash drive, I just reboot into Ubuntu and do it quickly there. FreeBSD is strictly for work (in theory).

I've only mounted stuff under FreeBSD maybe once in the past year or two, so it isn't even on the list for me.

So, from my point of view as a software developer who lives in Firefox and Emacs, it's shiny. Others differ. But for me, it's not required, at all.
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Ok, I was thinking in terms of the run-time of the software, not in terms of the time people spent using the system. But that's a valid way to look at it.
Perhaps that is why I am not so jaded; I still fill out a form that looks much like that when I file. This is because, of course, I don't make much money yet.
Now you're talking. Do you have a newsletter I can subscribe to?
All good feedback. We've got time limits per questionnaire already, and I'll add per-question limits to the list of feature requests.
eh, I dono. To a certain extent, credibility can be transformed in to money... e.g. if you write a technical book, you will have a much easier time getting a job later on.

On the other hand, I think most things that get you a lot of money also gets you a lot of credibility, so going from just f-ck you money to f-ck you money plus f-ck you credibility isn't going to take much effort; you just have to be a bit more public, a bit more vocal about what you are doing.
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I've never been to Houston, but I've been to a lot of US cities, and I've been to China. I find it hard to imagine that the drivers in Houston are worse than the drivers in China.
in entertainment and sales, confidence is almost everything. The thing is, outside those fields, confidence is dramatically less useful. (granted, sales skills have a pretty wide applicability, but my point is there are jobs that don't involve much sales, where confidence doesn't matter that much.)
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I feel a bit frustrated with the startup application process. The (very common) question, "List any links that will let us know who you are. For example, projects you've worked on or links to your GitHub, StackOverflow, Twitter, blog, website, etc." always seems to hold a lot of weight while being tangent to the work I would expect to be doing. I don't have a GitHub, I'm not a StackOverflow member, I'm not on Twitter, I don't have a blog, and I haven't had a website since graduating with my CS degree. That does not mean that I am not talented, smart, or motivated.

In my case, I like to interact personally with friends as opposed to digitally. I like to work on personal projects to satisfy my curiosity without being worried about later publishing them. And I'm not interesting/vain enough to warrant a blog, website, or Twitter presence. I like to work hard, "learn" hard (I do enjoy Hacker News), and play hard, and keeping up on the latest shiny-new-technology-web-presence-clique seems tangential to that.

My goal is to work for a few years in an interesting software development position on a smart team, getting paid a fair wage while providing the company with equal value in return. In those years, I would expect to learn (and contribute!) a lot while also paying off my debts and helping out my parents. After that, I would reëvaluate my goals and my career.

What frustrates me is that I feel like I have to jump through hoops just to get into the mix. I feel like I won't even be seriously considered unless I develop a few simple web tools built on RoR, promote them on a DJango website with a blog, host the source to the whole thing on GitHub, jump into the Twitter craze, and try to make useful contributions to FOSS and StackOverflow communities that are already saturated with great solutions. That seems like a lot of unimportant crap when all I really want to do is good work. If it takes me an extra day to learn RoR because your company uses it, that seems very small in the entire scheme of things.

I understand that I don't have a web-visible track record to point you to. I'm quite willing to work at an under-market rate for a few months until I'm up to speed and it is determined that I am a good fit. Is there anywhere interesting to work that is looking to hire somebody like me?
My wife's phone (Eris) has the exact same issues. I put a task killer on, and immediately the lag issues were reduced. I've just tried switching from Sense to the stock home app and removing the task killer to see if it would help. Interestingly my own phone (Droid) has never had any issues and works fine without any task killer apps.
Since the IRS already has all your W-2's and 1099's, they should at least give you suggested values for everything.
If an app can be replicated to a user's machine, can the user then also manipulate the couchapp's view and design documents using futon or otherwise, even though validation functions are in place?

ie, would a user be able to alter the application themselves, and not just their data?
The alternative is grants paid to hybrid car manufactures or car dealership or car buyer.

The only reason we don't use that far simpler system is government spending that looks like a "tax break" is some sort of fetish among the Republican party.

Edit: Democrats often do the same thing, just not to the same extent.
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>I think after you get fuck you money, your goal should be to create a lifestyle business. Something that can more or less run on autopilot and generate money for you to live on.

my god, man, if you are capable of building a business that pays you a good salary without doing much any work, why not do so /before/ you get f-ck you money? I mean, at that point, you'd have a lot of time to pursue whatever startup ideas that might get you f-ck you money.
Clever, but slightly scary. They tag their object/string/integer/floats by storing them all in 64 bits, top 32 bits is tag, noting that there are vast swathes of values in the IEEE float format that are all NaN and the hardware and libraries only use one.

But woe to the poor beggar that uses the wrong NaN.

And fear the nasty man that slips the wrong NaN in through a tricky mechanism and turns it to a pointer.

(For similar problems, I was always fond of the mechanism in the Mindy Dylan interpreter. There all pointers had their low bit set, and integers had a low bit of zero. The nifty part being that integer math still worked without shifting and for pointers you are generally indexing to an offset anyway so take the one off there and it is free. Mercifully I've forgotten why I had to read enough of their source code to discover that.)
Someone who gets it.

On top of all that, Google are only allowing a few countries to even sell apps on the store, no Australia yet. And despite all the calls for it to get started, we have not heard any word on when this will happen.

I think that with the average person getting into Android devices, they are going to start to buy more and more apps, but we have not heard for google once again on how well the marketplace is doing, and how much it has changed.

Until those two things change, I will stick with Apple.
For one, if they could make it work then it would be a fantastic use of space, which is your primary concern for public transport in heavily urbanised areas.

Is it really a good use of space?

For one thing, it means all your roads have to have some huge overhead clearance, which stops you from having overpasses et cetera.

Secondly, your road has to be made wider to put the bus there anyway, since you need space for the bus wheels. I doubt that the extra half-lanes you need for the wheels on either side of the road will be much less than one full bus lane.

Thirdly, every bus stop, which was previously just a metal post sticking out of the concrete, is now a complicated two-storey structure with stairs.

And that's before we get to the problem with turning the damn thing. You'll notice that the video depicts this bus on an insanely wide road; I have difficulty imagining it in an area where space really is at a premium, and in such a place I can't imagine it'd really take up less space than, say, a dedicated bus lane.
and if it comes to HPC, the world tends to think it's a Linux box, while we still have this ( http://people.freebsd.org/~brooks/papers/bsdcon2003/ )
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I agree. Videos are particularly good for time-shifting and getting a sense for interpersonal skills. We too think many people will prefer recording a short video to wordsmithing an essay.

AI's work with OLPC was awesome!