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The most important problem to solve is that when you do a search, or browse by a tag, that no one slips through the cracks. With a friend organizer, the worst possible thing it can do is become central to organizing your social life, but then silently "forget" about certain friends of yours.

I've thought about this very application (I call it "CRM for hypersocial people") and the most important component is the natural language processing. In particular, you want good autotagging and query expansion, with an emphasis on recall.

More specifically, if one of your ballet dancer friends is manually tagged "ballet" but not "dance", and you search for "dance", you want this friend to appear in the results.

Additionally, if you are looking for "hackers", it should know that it should include people who are "hardcore programmers" or maybe those that program "ruby".
My recollection is that Dalvik was always a key part of Android and it came along to Google when they bought it.
Hmm...could you sidestep that by just OCRing (or however) the text from the strips and putting it on the page, thereby allowing Google to index it and thus make it searchable? Or would they not allow that either?
I think the home page sums it up fairly well, the only thing missing would be to maybe use the words web content or something similar to convey that users are choosing to donate to producers of content that they like. That's how I understand it although I think I watched the video a while back so have a bit more context.
The listener should be required to click a button at a certain period of time to confirm that they are paying attention. This would remove the idlers.
Same way clients are routed to hidden service nodes?
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I read it years ago before it got too new agey and the claims of spiritualism as fact. It was pretty good. Some great reflective articles in the pre Sivers era (I even bought his book) but unless you're into the spiritual and new agey stuff, there are others better worth reading who give more practical advice nowadays. It's down to your personal taste though!
Where in that link does it say that the Czarists were bad?
The problem with this strategy is that it is impossible to engage in a high-risk/high-reward strategy like entrepreneurship where your effort has to be 100% committed to the business, especially in the first couple years and especially if you are venture backed.

There are a couple solutions to this:

1) Invest more of your wages in low risk investments to offset the monetary risk of a startup.

2) Work full-time or as a contractor whilst also working 20% of the time on your own startup to try to gain traction which would lower the risk. Though if that succeeds, you should be then reinvesting your time in another startup. It's a vicious cycle :)
Of course they don't. But not carrying every book ever printed is different from refusing to carry a class of books because of their political content.

And I did mention general bookstores. Let's take Glenn Beck books as an example. Personally, I find them rage-inducingly offensive. But I'd still expect the local bookstores, even here in liberal Seattle, to carry them, and, if they didn't have a copy on their shelves, to order it for me. Should I, say, have some sort of psychotic breakdown and decide that I wanted a copy.
"I found it surprising that Rails needs this level of hand-holding to keep it running though. Rails devs, is this really the experience you have deploying your applications?"

That WAS my experience with Rails, but I'm pretty sure that the problem wasn't due to Rails, but rather the way that our system ended up being architected.

An intelligent setup would have been to have each child site a separate, service-backed (i.e. no ActiveRecord -- that scaled abysmally, and I don't know whether or not it's improved enough for more than prototypes since then, so that part might be outdated now) Rails application. The company common resources like custom Javascript, authentication (ours used a pretty hefty RSA server setup) and style sheets should be hosted in their own Rails app.

Do it that way, and ensure that your developers aren't idiots like the blithering idiot that thought he was an architect (without nepotism he'd have been fired instead of promoted to architect, as his only previous industry experience was as a gopher at accidenture), and you can make a Rails app that's not only robust, but also scales well.

It also avoids the tight coupling problem that the gen-y's and sweatshoppers all seem to love so much.

You decide to add a new feature? Spin up a new Rails app. You need to change the styling? No problem, update them in one place.

Not that any of that is specific to Rails, but even back in 2005, that approach worked well... and the company I was working for might have been successful if we'd stayed that course.
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This is the one thing that I WOULD NOT do. The must successful contractors that I've worked with always take charge of the negotiation and try to say things like "going rate" or "standard rate", essentially stating their prices authoritatively. If they're paying you to be an expert, than you should maintain that persona through to your billing and price negotiation as well.
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Don't do it man. Especially since he's your friend. This is a recipe for resentment down the road.
I would suggest reading this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/197139/fair-contract-sala...

Obviously, I can't speak for your situation, but there's a good chance you're undercharging.
I've always heard the adage "the first guy who mentions a number loses".
On that same note, I would recommend trying your best to avoid saying things like "whatever you think", "I don't know" or "..if that's ok with you guys".
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Yup. I've actually been quite fascinated about the different ways to build my own C&H search engine and have implemented (but not publicly) it two ways - one of which was to do it the way you suggested.

I think from a 'will the publisher still it as copyright infringement' point of view, I think the answer is still yes if I host the text on my site. And so I haven't implemented my efforts as a result.
Wish I had an answer for you and for myself :)
If you look at the crazy people who made it and sane people who got burnt out, you'd stop asking this question. The lesson I took away from this was that when you think you have recovered, with time you have grown wings (or whatever you need to accomplish what you started out for), make sure to clear up the history and restart as a curious kid.

PS: To me, Gagarin did not restart - was central idea of the animation.
No, that's different. With a hidden service you're not exiting the Tor network, but when you're exiting you always know where you're exiting from.

That's why the Tor project itself publishes a list of Tor routers and exit nodes, if they didn't do it it would be trivial for someone else to compile and publish the list.
You're assuming spam is like trash: it accumulates from everyone sending small quantities. But spam is never a side effect. 99% of spam comes from a very few operators operating at extremely high scales.

So even if nobody spammed book recommendations with affiliate links, Twitter would still have to deal with the large-scale operators.
Ok... so he's taking 90% of the company just for having the initial idea? Ideas aren't quite worthless, but they're pretty close. Execution matters far more.

What is he contributing aside from the initial idea?
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<< is the left-shift operator in C, so the OP's code is syntactically valid C.

It ought not to compile though, since it's trying to shift cerr by a string!
Not a problem. It would've been a fun thing to do and something I may think about doing in the future, I just think it's a bit much for me to take on right now considering I have a day job, currently have a product to enhance, and will be launching a new product in a couple of weeks.
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Thanks for the link, but I'm in London, so with the shipping Amazon UK will be cheaper, I think... Thanks again!
That's probably true in some cases, like trying to land a contract with new client.

I am giving this advice based on the context that this person has a fairly good idea of what this company pays their employees & contractors, since he already has a relationship with them.
TL;DR solution: "You _could_ just read the highlighted parts"
Content aside, an absolutely brilliant solution to TL;DR.
Isn't God going to be a little upset about that?
If they really bill at ~$100/hr, they should certainly be comfortable with paying $50/hr to subcontractors, maybe more. (It's common to double a subcontractor's rate and bill that to the client.) So definitely don't take anything under $50.

Asking for $55 and being ready to take $50 doesn't seem crazy at all to me, but since you don't care too much whether you get it but also don't want to burn a bridge, ask for a daring "wow, it makes it worth it!" but inoffensive figure. Given their margins, I'd say that's $65-75/hr.
I don't think anyone would leave right before their stock was about vest, without a solid reason. :) But the key term is classy.

True story: in the early days of Merb, before it had really gotten a lot of attention, I once hit a show stopper - hopped on IRC, told him about my problem, he found the bug, fixed the bug, pushed a new release in something like 15 minutes IIRC, and stayed cool about it the entire time.

Best of luck to him!
All businesses have their ups and downs. I was with a startup for 6 years and certainly have a good set of stories. It just isn't good karma to air dirty laundry.
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I disagree. Contractors should never waiver on their prices. Whatever your asking price is you should always be willing to walk if your price isn't met.
Why should he care about the pledge? Taking the letter at face value, he's already gone far further ("at least 95% of my wealth") than the pledgers, and he's done it in private. I can totally understand him not wanting to write such a letter and doing it only as a favour to Buffett, with a certain skepticism. Well-founded skepticism too.

(Or maybe he's just pissed that he had to blow his cover as a supervillain.)
He'll be largely responsible for bringing in clients (corporate - good prospects). The business operational side. Marketing & PR (he's good).
The keywords were "extensible dynamically at runtime", not just "extensible, period".

Runtime extensibility matters at systems that you cannot shut down, where have to upgrade live systems, for example. If you are doing just "run it once again, no big deal" application, then it does not matter, you are right.
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> we had a patent lawyer who would always ask around if anything we developers did were patentable.

Easy answer: "of course there's nothing patentable here--it's software!"
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I usually post under another name. I consider myself a startup casualty. I've worked for 3 startups as one of the first 5 employees. None of them panned out, in any definition of the word. I consider it mostly a waste of time, and if I could do it all again, I wouldn't. I decided to work at an investment bank for 3 years so that I would have at least some money and investments for retirement. The only useful part of my startup experience is that it made it possible to get a dead end, but high paying job at an investment bank. I don't think I would have been hired otherwise. I've got about a year left and then I'm going to move to the beach area of Oaxaca and hang out until I think of something else to do with my life.
Icon conditions were pretty interesting.
In the filing Oracle claims Google knows this because it hired Java programmers away from Sun years ago.
I'll do that, thanks!
Ok. Hire him as your VP Marketing and offer him 5% of the company.
It probably seemed relatively remote when Sun was still around, as Schwartz and Sun had a history of being very friendly to open-source philosophies. Most viewed Sun's patents as defensive. Schwartz has written about how the patents kept Sun out of this mess before -- Microsoft came and said "Cough up because OpenOffice violates our patents" and Schwartz countered with "O RLY, well, while we're at it, why don't we discuss licensing for our Java-related patents re: .NET", etc. But now what used to be Sun is the aggressor.

Oracle bought Sun and everyone was concerned because Oracle is very evil.
Having worked full time in both .NET environments and now in Ruby/Rails, the toolkit in the ruby community is very robust and a far better experience. Any of our developers can do a production deployment with one command and do it with zero downtime. In .NET, it was never as elegant.

The problem is something gets started in the infancy of a framework or tooling and continues to get propagated. The "hearing" rather than "using".
> I would be very unhappy with a general bookstore openly refusing to carry a book solely because of its political content.

What is "openly" and why is it relevant?

BTW - What bookstores do you think that you're happy with?
Some things certainly changed. Coming in via the Overture acquisition (a company that was basically printing money and had one of the highest revenue-per-employee in the web industry), Yahoo felt extremely cost-conscious. For example, there was (and still is) a much hated process you have to go through to get any hardware purchase approved. So, that part of what pg said didn't ring true to me.

However, the ambivalence about being a tech company was definitely still there. The politics and the decision-making by people who didn't really understand tech was still there.

There's a lot of variation between divisions in Yahoo, but where I was was definitely not "hacker-centric". Projects were managed as massive waterfall efforts. Innovations by technologists were basically impossible to launch or test unless you had the right people in upper management backing you. There were these "Hack Days" that happened occasionally which some people in the company seemed to really enjoy. I don't know anyone in my division who ever participated in one, because we were too busy "getting real work done" and our management wasn't going to let people take a day or two off when we had deadlines to meet.
> I assume they can keep using Dalvik.

The Dalvik VM is the only thing these threats are about.

> Wouldn't it be great if Android would be based on a better language than Java?

You can already write Android apps in Python, Lua, Scheme, Ruby, Scala, Clojure, Fantom, Mirah, and Javascript. This is precisely due to the fact that Dalvik is closely related to the JVM.
A few questions/thoughts.

1) Cash loan on what terms? Seems like a good opportunity to take it in the form of preferred shares, first $300K of any exist >$1MM for example.

2) Fuck the "OR", always remember any negotiation can be an "AND", cherry pick whatever terms YOU think are right.

3) Ask him to take your "friendship", and past effort, out of the equation. He has a supposedly MVP and he needs to hire the "tech guy" to build and maintain it. What would he offer someone for that role in terms of salary and equity. Don't worry about what the company can afford, pretend his rich uncle is writing the checks for him. Value the position first. What would a "normal" person expect from this role, what kind of talent does he want to attract?

From #3 I think you'll have a better negotiating view. He most likely either places no value on the position (which is a signal to you) or he recognizes the value but the lack of short-term resources to recruit properly. In this latter case, you are foregoing other income opportunities to take a risk with him. That risk needs to have a payoff above and beyond what you could get on the street to make it worth taking on your part.

Reading what you posted, 5% of a $10MM (best case, which is generally unlikely) is $500,000K. As a lump-sum that's not life-changing for most people, spread over 3 years is $166K/year, which is very nice salary (if you get it), but still no where near fuck-you type terms even in the short duration.
No, it's about delivering the essential things first. If they wasted effort doing all that other stuff first, all of those features would be badly integrated into the product. This means that they would be hard to learn about and use. And if they're jammed in before the technology is ready, they'll make the device ugly because they'll add so much bulk and heft that the essential feature of the device is hampered or lost entirely.
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In that context, are carrier-mandated apps and handset-maker skins forced speech?
After many years billing as a consultant I found that I was happiest when I ignored bill-thru rates and just focused on getting a fair rate commensurate with my market value.

Unless the gig you are ending is unusual, or short term, it would appear that your market value is at least 45/hr. I would either offer that, or if you want to test your value, increase it to 50. If the company does not value your time at that rate, they won't pay it. As a consultant it's important to remember when you're discussing rates with a client, it's not a reflection of your personal worth, just your economic value.

You can test your market value by either offering them a lower rate, or trying to find other work at 45-50 hr.

Over time I learned that when I felt I was getting too busy it was time to rate limit the work I was getting by raising my rates. Or vice-versa.
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“With Oracle, everything is always about money. It is the only metric they know.”

— Gosling, comment on linked article.
I think the author believes that censorship is desirable for privately-run marketplaces such as the Android Market and Apple App Store.

I don't have a problem with the idea of Google censoring its market to some degree. Unlike Apple, Google has provided users with the ability to install software from any source, significantly mitigating the impact of any censorship. If Google doesn't want to censor hate speech, I'm ok with that too. Ultimately, it's their store, and it's up to them to decide what's sold in it.

I do, however believe that this is an example of poor search results. Someone searching for "Jewish" probably doesn't want this theme, even though it's relevant to the search term.
I just don't see Dean Kamen's fit with Elon Musk and Carmack.
Without Shaq's name in there, I had to read the article in order to understand the humor of the quote: the Celtics now have Shaq and Jermaine O'Neal and Kevin Garnett all on one team; in 2002 (when they were near their collective prime), that collection of big men would have been unstoppable.
> given the maturity of the JVM architecture

The server JVM is very mature; millions of dollars have been poured into making it work great in long-running, high-memory conditions where it has a lot of time to optimize its JIT. The client JVM (focusing on quick startup and low resource usage) has been pretty much neglected ever since people realized "Java applets on the web" wasn't going to happen.
Oracle may do what no other company, even MS, has managed to do: kill java. They are currently making an excellent case that it's time to move on to a new technology, not just open source but actually free to use.
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Same here... it is not an easy task to have a day job and work in what we believe and enjoy the most! what's the name of your startup?
It doesn't bother me on an American website. On a British website, I would notice it, but foregoing "whom" is an old American tradition.
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See, the problem is, we don't want to hear that. We want to hear "do it for god's sake" or "stop dreaming, you're a looser". The latter would motivate even more. But not that it's okay. It's not. If it was, I'd be doing something else.
There's spamming affiliate links, and then there's testing if the quality of my recommendations is good enough to create a steady long-term stream of revenue. It's the difference between a quick buck and a buck.
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can't you outsource payroll?

for me, networking. i'm a somewhat introverted, behind-the-scenes type, which means i have to force myself to get my face out there, meet people, shake hands, make new friends, push my business, etc.. i'd much rather be solving problems.
Possibly both, neither intentionally. Happy to be corrected.
If the fans of BE want to win these things, they need to work on the Indians, not the Americans. (The US doesn't look to the UK for language lessons. We fight amongst ourselves.) Of course, even winning the "world-wide English" wars may not be enough to influence Americans.

BTW - Does French or German have these problems?
Makes all of us look a little silly trying so hard, doesn't it
I disagree strongly. Changing your price isn't wavering, it's negotiating. Companies hiring consultants aren't that different than most parties you would negotiate with.

For example they tend to respond to standard negotiating techniques, such as quoting them a higher standard rate then offering a discount in negotiation.

Walking away is fine as long as your confident in your ability to immediately get work at your rate but it doesn't prove your rate out - people paying it does.

There is a slightly dated, but highly relevant book I'd recommend - Janet Ruhl's Computer Consultant's Guide - http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Consultants-Guide-Strategies-...
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I found the game play of, say, Quake 3 quite consistent, if a bit simple minded.
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I think the author intended to mean not-relevant instead of not-related. The relation between the search terms is such that results for one are likely not desirable to someone searching for the other.

Maybe thats the real scandal here: Google's market search returns not relevant results!
You don't hear too much about Scala on CLR, but Microsoft did support it somehow:

http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/scala-is-foremost...