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And one of their main bait methods is in their writing. Angel investors and others in their eco-system are writing on the internet about how to make money on the internet. These articles are what young programmers read, and the methods that these people write about is what the programmers end up using.

Salesmanship is a fact of life. Even great products need effective marketing. People only use products they've seen. A company must find an audience and prove to them that the company is worthy of their money. Blogging and hanging around social sites accomplishes this faster than anything else. It means immediate feedback from tens - if not hundreds - of people, and a company can rapidly change its plans accordingly. Maybe I'm not reading the right angel investing blogs, but what I've seen is very up-front about the risks (although they obviously are outweighed by the rewards :D).

Caveat emptor!
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To give you support in this, Apple still seem to be trying to hamper the LLVM project by patenting the side effects of producing various frontends to LLVM with patents like this recent one:

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20100153929

Every JavaScript frontend for generating IR would violate this patent (they even mention LLVM IR explicitly in this patent). Essentially Apple just patented the UCSD p-System (nothing new here and obviously plenty of prior art so this patent is totally invalid due to prior art).

The patent has only recently been published and harms anyone considering using LLVM as an intermediate between JavaScript and back-end machine specific executables.

So much for Apple not abusing its contribution to LLVM (and in particular not abusing the freedom of downstream users).

BTW: I can see this patent being used to enforce a silo of control of using LLVM for any inbrowser HTML5+JavaScript engines (i.e. a means for optimisation).
This is a great idea. I'm excited by the potential for a cultural shift in the way we react to death. There are so many beautiful inspiring and funny life stories that we usually only get a chapter of with many people we know. A site like this can help us put the puzzle pieces together of that story and celebrate it with others. We spend so much money on death and yet the ceremonies pass so quickly and are often impersonal. This site helps us organize our loved one's life community to do something other than send flowers - to attend the Subway Series each year, to go camping at their favorite spot, to volunteer for a cause they cared about, or to create a foundation in their name that gives others an opportunity they were grateful for. Rituals are important for grieving and dealing with things we don't understand. Let's make new rituals that celebrate the beauty, the drama, or the devotion of that life that touched our lives.
Google Search I assume? What kind of extension (browser plug-in)?
This is awesome. I've been waiting for this for a while.
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...they are investing money because they want even more money back...

Oh my! While he has a good point in there somewhere I think he pretty much lost it by letting his imagination get out of hand.
I see your point but I don't think they meant that. When they said dynamic I think they meant, "We want somebody who's going to be making calls, sending emails, knocking on doors, chatting people up at conferences, getting in people's faces -- not somebody who sits in their cubicle hiding from the world." And by reliable and consistent they mean, "We don't want somebody who's doing all those things we want on Monday but then doesn't do it the rest of the week. Or does in January but not in February. You have to keep producing for us non-stop or we're going to run out of runway."

Agreed some words are used too much. But sometimes words are chosen to signal something like, "Our last guy in that role, who we fired, was not dynamic. You must be dynamic or we will fire you earlier so that we don't go bankrupt and not have the money & time left to hire your replacement."
Maybe this is all just projection (Hey, at least I'm honest), but I think there's something valuable being said here. About building something for it's sake instead of building it solely for money. In the first case you're actually creating something, in the second case you're moving only towards a payday.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with getting fantastically rich (or soemthing), you probably wouldn't be building something if not for the payday.

It's absurd to focus only on that, though. I know I couldn't sleep at night if I made a million (or 10) bucks selling a worthless company to a bigger company. That's not why I want to create.

Don't get it twisted though, I'm not saying every company that doesn't feed the poor, clothe the needy and solve the issues of world peace and universal justice is misguided. I'm simply saying it's worth aiming for something/anything beyond the financial gain.
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Awesome! I worked on an iPhone app about 6 months ago that could have really benefitted from this. Instead we had to use a third party lib on the server to render the MathML into images. It was a huge mess.

Here's to hoping we see this trickle down to UIWebView soon!
"Machiavelli insisted that the leader should always go with fear. [...] That may not be the best advice."

Ummm... Just to make it clear, as anyone who has read his book knows, Machiavelli was talking Renaissance princes and the ambitious goal of unifying Italy (400 years before it was done). His argument was that, in the treacherous and volatile atmosphere of the day, love would evaporate soon, and the ruling prince might find his subjects turning against him unexpectedly - unless they feared him. It was advice meant to keep rebellions away, not to help his popularity. What exactly do college dorms and sororities have in common with this?!
You are clearly not a dumb person, having been commenting smartly here for many moons now, so I'm wondering how you've managed to disregard the fact that most moon-shot "blowout" companies fail. There's an even bigger opportunity cost to spending 3-4 years of your life on something and have it come to nothing.
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Not a monthly subscription, but generating plenty of buzz anyway:

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http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/02/rapportive-funding/

Maybe something more like xobni but for gmail?

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> reporting to middle managers - on a hardware and software stack selected for them - frequently in the kinds of unsustainable scorched earth industries and overly large multinationals
> frequently in the kinds of unsustainable scorched earth industries and overly large multinationals

That's not where hackers who could realistically pull-off a tech start-up usually end up going to.
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1) MIT (Annual Return on Investment: 12.6%)

2) CIT

3) Harvard

4) Harvey Mudd

5) Dartmouth

6) Stanford

7) Princeton

8) Yale

9) Notre Dame

10) Penn

11) Duke

12) Lehigh

13) Union College

14) Amherst

15) WPI

16) UC Berkeley

17) Carnegie Mellon

18) Colgate

19) Columbia

20) Rensselaer (10.8%)
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Apple and Google turn up nothing, but Microsoft...

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The EVO is worse. It's "Sent from my HTC EVO 4G on the Super Awesome Sprint 4G Network - The World's First NOW! Network!1" or some ultra-long BS like that. I might be exaggerating a bit, but not much. I guess it's an multi-vendor arms race.
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> There's an even bigger opportunity cost to spending 3-4 years of your life on something and have it come to nothing.

Sometimes a binary outcome (death or success) is better than going nowhere and being unable to walk away from it. Most hackers (for better or for worse) aren't really interested in managing a business, but just want to write code. I'm pretty sure all would agree that running a small business is incompatible with "just write code".

Failing in two years and going back to work for The Man (to write code) doesn't sound too bad. Then again, that dynamic may be exactly why startups fail or "sell out" for sums that are leaving VCs (but not angels!) very angry e.g., "don't pull a Patzer, dipshit companies".
It's very pretty, but I can't really see how it's better than a Google Docs document.
I wonder how the Googlers handle this @work. Obviously, in overall, they are a productive bunch, but it makes me wonder upon your comment if the dog friendly groups get as much distracted or not.
This may or may not be true, but it has nothing to do with my point.
I'm not familiar with the basic research, but the article itself is one big non sequitur. It starts with the subtitle "Dogs improve office productivity" and proceeds to establish that:

1. "those who had had a dog ranked their team-mates more highly on measures of trust, team cohesion and intimacy"

2. in the Prisoner's Dilemma game, dogs "made volunteers 30% less likely to snitch"

At best, this tangentially indicates that the presence of one dog in the office has the potential to improve team cohesion. There's a big step from that to productivity.
To add this point, consider a laptop/pcthat could last 3 yrs, not easy to code with a slow pc. Important to get a good setup for the essentials; table, chair, laptop/pc... then you can focus on the core -> that's to make something.
Probably cause most people don't send emails to themselves and know it's there?
The article says many of the targets are discussion boards, probably where users posted the articles.
here we go: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3374050/url-for-sending-a...

thanks for the pointer!
I remember as a kid, I found a big, sloped tree stump in town that if I ran and used it as a ramp, I could get enough height in a jump to be pushing my landing abilities near their limit. I wasn't a big time thrill seeker, but that became a habit for the wonderful free fall feeling and time effect. It didn't happen every time, but the slow-down effect was common enough that I got curious and wondered how it worked... was it just a trick of memory afterward or was it something in the moment?

I realize it isn't really good science, as I have only the subjective experience of the tests (so be it, I guess), but I did what I could on the repeatability front (sprained ankles and scratches paid with the kind of childhood zeal unhampered by considering possible consequences). When in that moment, I had enough mental time to think "no, not just a memory effect, this is really going on right now... and yeah, still going on, and still falling" several times before landing.

As an aspiring rational empiricist, I will force myself to give up this belief if need be, but a few tests aren't enough to do that. There are plenty of i's and t's to dot and cross in the experimental construction and interpretation first.
Don't forget that people feel that spending more money makes something more valuable.
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Hmmm.. Makes me wonder, why we do the opposite in video games - slo-mo is in effect when an enemy is about to die... But in fact it should be the opposite.

My father had exactly the same experience - he was in the car my grandfather was driving along with my mother, something happened and they were nearly going to crash, when everything turned slo-mo for my father and he was able to pull the manual brake (it was in the middle of the car for the russian Lada model, unlike my current Toyta Venza).
When I worked in a fancy NYC startup back in 1999 we had an AIBO - Sony's $5000 robot dog.

Having an "OFF" switch probably helped productivity.
The best explanation in regards to why my boss, and everyone here's boss, is a jerk:

They attribute your failures to flaws and their own failures to circumstance or whatever life context they're in. So if they're tired or had a bad night at home, they know why they started yelling.

So basically it's basic solipsism or narcissism. They don't empathize with other people failures or mistakes and don't accept excuses for anyone but themselves.

The preceding was an anecdote.
Exactly. The same as the OP. I'm still not catching non-commutative qualities.
There's some good advice here. I'm particularly fond of these:

>Atheist or evangelical, the more you talk about how others should live, the less anyone will want to talk to you.

>Having a good tailor is important; talking too much about having one is a pretension.

I've had friends start too many conversations with me about all the things that are wrong with my life.
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I guess you can do both public internet & Google Chrome App Store at the same time? Remember that this will also be tied to ChromeOS tablets/netbooks in the same way that the App Store is to the iPhone, whatever that's worth.
It is sad that most people jump on the bandwagon without really grasping what Google is trying to accomplish. I think the author frames it pretty nicely towards the end with, basically, if we don't play the game we won't get to make the rules. Google is trying to play the game - it has no incentive to NOT have neutrality on the Internet. Most of Google's best products have been start ups that they bought (and a lack of some neutrality on the Internet would put a damper on that).

Instead, we get cries of Google running afoul and that (somehow) every intellectual person at Google is now "evil" and bent on world domination.
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I have a friend who used 'Sent from your iPhone' for a couple days when they announced the browser exploits.
I'd love it. One of my profs has one, but it's mildly crummy, and I've never yet seen a good one nor an open source one. Not that I've been looking.

Know of any good ones? ie, fast + network access for shared whiteboarding?
So, like a Segway, but with legs?!
The Soviets might have had fewer landing craft than the Allies, but they could also afford much higher casualty rates. Witness the Battle of Berlin, in which they took 40 times as many casualties as the US in the (roughly simultaneous) Battle of Okinawa.
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They should have some sort of equivalent App Store for ideas. YOu pay 5$ and a file is downloaded to your computer. You open it up and it says "Have a list of stuff to do, review it daily in the morning, act on it during the day. Be organized."

The big issue is that speaking tours would be pretty much out of the question.
This was announced on HN a couple weeks ago - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1549115
The appengine photo URL service is just the first step in what will eventually be a full-blown CDN service for Appengine, and I'm sure ultimately, any Google AdWords customer.

I'm sure all the CDNs are really excited about this prospect... :-(
Are there any good tools for generating MathML automatically, or converting LaTeX to MathML? Writing MathML for an expression[1] is a tedious pain in the ass. The MathML expansion of a formula ends up being very similar to a verbose parse tree represented in XML, and mathematical notation can be very dense so those trees get large.

[1] This is where the word "non-trivial" usually goes, but not this time.
I considered doing that, but it pretty much means rewriting the reader because it changes the grammar so much. Not that it's not possible, I just don't trust myself not to make it full of bugs.
In a fractional reserve banking system there is never enough money to pay all the debts. And with a debt based currency, the money is the debt. It's impossible to pay back all the debt.
The key is how it uses your email as it's interface. I tried it, and really liked how it worked. I'm not much into writing a journal so I'm not using it, but I could see that approach working for other ideas/sites.
this of course led me to search for TOP SECRET:

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Bottom line is that Google's advocacy of net neutrality was an attempt to innovate via legislation... by making a major competitive force illegal.

There are strong arguments both for and against net neutrality, and Google did itself a disservice by trying to rally people behind the idea that net neutrality is the "good" option and anything else is "evil". That sort of simple binary good/bad is reminiscent of George W. Bush's approach to selling people on his war strategy.

The fact is, it doesn't matter whether we have laws enforcing net neutrality... for most things a neutral net is what consumers expect and demand. For the marginal things where consumers don't care (possibly including internet search) then consumers still win.
Last campaign I sent for a client had 60% open and 32% click rate. I've also seen much worse than those stats.

It really depends what you are doing. On a strongly qualified list with content relevant to the users you should be able to do quite well.
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Weird... the square roots look like crap, especially compared to the rest and when zoomed in (r65222, so not most recent, but still very). No color-AA.

The rest of that is gorgeous, though. Awesomeness.

edit: nope, r65398 doesn't fix it.
> As mentioned above I(and, I imagine, many business cofounders) would bring marketing, monetization, and bizdev. This isn't vague writing a business plan strategy stuff, but rather concrete steps to take a startup from a side project to a business where you put in $X and get $2X back- in other words, the exact thing investors are looking for.

If that's true, you have term sheets to show potential co-founders.

What? You mean that you can generate such materials and that they'll result in term sheets if you can just get someone to write some code. That's very different.

If you've done it before, you can argue that you can do it again, but if you haven't....

Tech folks code during interviews. Perhaps you should do what you say you can do and show us. Bonus points if you get some outside validation, such as an actual investor saying "if that coding was done, I'd be writing a check".
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Can you use only this part of the appengine's offer? or it's again the ToS?

I see tons of scriptkidies inspecting this to cheaply scale their sites.
My Twifficiency score is for the love of god stop clicking everything on the internet

http://twitter.com/biorhythmist/status/21424773186

It seemed pretty clear on the page what it was going to do.
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Is 15K not very less amount. I mean, I've never seen any company receiving such a small amount in funding.

Is this normal?
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I'm doing a startup and one of the fields will be a space for a short blurb of text - right now it's 100 characters (and counts down a la Twitter) but I've been thinking it may make sense to make it 140 characters... people are used to that length at this point, and it'd make sharing content from Twitter on my site easier.

However, I don't want to draw comparisons to Twitter (even in the sense that it's just one component of the site) because I'm not trying to compete with them.

Can apps beside Twitter use the 140 character limit without people immediately thinking of Twitter, or of your site as a secondary service?
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You are to to say that it is easy to hire, you just need a bit of money. but NOT easy to secure talents, and even more challenging to motivate them.
You could use Rhino w/ AppEngine JVM if you like Javascript so much. Rhino actually supports newer version of Javascript (1.7 vs 1.5 for V8). Check out for example: http://www.appenginejs.org/
I think of 140 as the limit of SMS messages. Not twitter.
The AppEngine datastore is somewhat similar to Cassandra (ok, so really HBase, but you get the idea)

You can't run Node.js on AppEngine, but there is http://www.appenginejs.org/ (Javascript on AppEngine).

I'm not familiar enough with Node.js to say for sure, but it's possible you could write a compatible javascript API for AppEngine under Java.
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Among the list of "improvements" that I would choose for the human cognitive architecture, very high up would be a little extra test before any thought is committed to belief or sentence is uttered aloud. Just a little addition to the mental flowchart... "is this thought a result of the fundamental attribution error? If no, proceed. If yes, rethink." [1]

We really, really need our stories and myths to teach this out of us more as children. Maybe a little rhyme or something.

[1] "actor-observer bias" to be more accurate and general, but I like the inclusion of the term "error".
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>The game doesn't seem to involve so much coding.

There are layers of complexity that you simply can't avoid. Add that even the simplest physics algorithms are non-trivial.

Many of us were programming before we hit the grand double digits, however in ways modern development is more difficult in some ways because you're building on layers and layers of existing code (Motorola assembly was easy compared to developing for the iphone or Android), which is where experience comes into play.

Nonetheless, the way this story was delivered, the fact that this kid has purportedly made 10 apps...I dunno it seems like a really clumsy marketing tactic.
You need to enable billing for this particular one (though you still have it for free). But other than that you can use it to augment your current services without using AppEngine completely. The only requirement is that you don't use several free applications per website to get more free quota.
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