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Sigh... so true. I only wish the economics were different. If, like Fidelity, you extract a ton in fees it allows you to swamp the airwaves with marketing dollars. And the folks who just keep their heads down and do their jobs, well, don't have as much money to run ads. And in this market, unfortunately, because few people understand it deeply ad dollars can move the needle. Unfortunate, to say the least.

This is not even considering the who commissioned-advisor problem.
I'd be careful it may affect the output of your work
Well, I'm a Canadian expat in Dubai and I find it interesting that you're ill-disposed toward me though we've never met.

I also wear Nike sneakers that were sewn by children working in some god-awful Pacific Asian export zone sweat shop. Don't you?
I like how right next to the OA's title was a photo of Steve Jobs. I think that pretty much answered the question immediately. If you could pick one guy who would be the epitome of the ideal business co-founder for a tech guy: Steve Jobs. You can't argue with a successful track record.
2 years for my own undergraduate. However my girlfriend just graduated with 40k worth of student loans last August and we'll have it paid off by the end of the year.
What Time is Dinner? The history of mealtimes.
"Sanity of threads + robustness of web development.

What could possibly go wrong?"

Genius!
I thought it was absurd that Medvedev was here several weeks ago exploring how get more innovative companies growing in Moscow. Maybe not terrorizing them might be a good first step.

There are good reasons Sergei Brin called it Nigeria with snow.
> and education that shouldn't be treated like for-profit ventures

There's an assumption here that for-profit ventures perform worse or serve interests worse than non-profits. In my experience with non-profits, there's lower accountability, higher salaries with less performance, less accomplishing of the organization's objectives, and more corruption and politics. Nonprofits have historically done very poorly at their stated aims, and vastly, vastly underperformed for-profit companies in building up the world. Also, the majority of universities and schools are already set up as non-profits, which might be part of why they're so dysfunctional.
On the Predictably Irrational blog there was an example of how clients recommended Fidelity and Vanguard evenly picked Fidelity on the basis of 25k bonus airline miles (cash value $250) so that they could pay $2~20k extra a year in management fees. I wanted to cry... And figure out how to offer airline miles.
Until the TP ref I wondered whether it was you. Hi again :)
the Apple case of having a biz co-founder in Jobs and a tech co-founder in Woz is often cited, but Jobs is really a tech guy who knows his biz stuff.

He made most of the tech design decisions at Apple and NeXT including ObjC, Rhapsody, Carbon, Cocoa, Mach, etc. When OS X was in early beta I exchanged emails with Jobs about some FreeBSD libs and he definitely is a tech guy first as he knew the ins and outs of everything.

My suggestion would be to just find another tech person who can talk to a room of people and has some level of confidence. It is far more important to have two tech hands than one guy fine tuning powerpoint presentations and other other busting himself coding. You will pick up all that biz stuff easily anyway, especially with all the other entrepreneurs out there to help you.
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Yes time..
Interesting! You always hear about the battles won with guns and bombs, but very rarely do you get to learn about battles between engineers.
which parts of the site are python and which are clojure?
Yes, there is (was) a lot of foreign investment in Dubai, but the government was effectively underwriting much of it by starting off and feeding the Ponzi scheme. The big headline projects (the world, Burj Dubai, etc) were all underwritten by the Dubai government.

Perhaps I didn't make it clear enough in my post that I wasn't suggesting Dubai was remotely socialist. My point was that centralised planning in an economy leads to problems. Where I failed in my haste to post and move on, was that I omitted the next part is that most socialist economies rely, and expect, a greater amount of government control over the economy, right up to the point where you get 100% control of the official economy in the case of communism.

The point I'm making is that excessive government interference in the marketplace leads to undesired outcomes. Everyone who is entrepreneurial should have this as a startup message on their computer or phone. It's so easy to mistake government money flows for real prosperity.

What I'm suggesting is that Dubai World shouldn't have borrowed and spent so much money on non-productive investments. The [tenuous] link to socialism I'm trying to make is that the hallmark of any truly socialist government is that it spends too much money on unproductive investments (aka bridges to nowhere), not because they are stupid, but because they evaluate investment on things other than the ability to return their outlay and make a return in the future.

My post was designed to look absurd, because I'm truly concerned about the reckless amount of government borrowing and spending taking place across the world. It's unprecedented in scale and will affect us all in the fallout. We all look at Dubai and think 'can't happen here' (wherever we might be) but so many places can end up like this.
Yeah, this is what I imagined. I actually do have an interest in programming and computer science in general, but if I were to really become proficient I would want the technical side of it to be my main interest. That would mean sacrificing the business end, which is what I'm just more passionate about right now.

I wasn't sure if there was a way to learn the foundations and jargon for what technical cofounders do, without actually beginning to physically code. It seems that the main intention is to be able to communicate on a higher level with a programmer than describing in layman's terms what I want.
It's not an issue of Putin's control. It's an matter of people's mind.

I'd like to point out two issues.
1. Too many people here want a tough and strong leader with nearly absolute political power. Few days ago I ran into my childhood friend. And he told me, by the way, 'You know buddy I'd like to see a Tsar as a leader'. I was deeply depressed. I think it's a heritage of the Soviet where people could sidestep responsibility of their own life.

2. Most people do not like entrepreneurs. So you are entrepreneur. Then you're fraud and rouge by definition (in the eyes of common people). That's why Chichvarkin did not gain public backing. And it's a sad and shameful thing.

I think things will change someday. But it will take neither one nor three years but half a score.
This sounds like a cool idea, but after looking at it, I think the odds that you'll come across something better than brute-forcing could produce seems a little low. I mean, let's look at the most realistic deleting names on the list today. I'm actually selecting the least nonsensical ones here (e.g., not the long list of names like "o6fg29ra.com"):

cafebrucenyc.com, dubai-companion.de,	obamacoolbrother.com, raceto11.com, oasistaxi.com, wacko.us (this last one was actually the best I saw on the whole list)
Other interesting horological terminology: In upper society, one might wear morning dress while attending a matinée theatre performance... in the afternoon.
Outside of our world of geekery I see the odd person switching to a Mac. Even more rarely I see people switch to Linux, but it happens.

What I don't see are people switching from Linux or Macs to Windows. Geek or otherwise. Not one.
I find it absolutely mind-blogging that this is truly how our communication/internet infrastructure is implemented. Its almost unbelievable to me.
I figured that anyone doing Windows dev is using VS. Consider my VS comment to include everyone who deploys on Windows.
You can do Whois lookups. This standard is as old as the Internet.
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It's because the fees charged don't appear as a line item on your statement. It's probably the only thing most American families spend more than a $1000 a year on (I did the math), for which they get no documentation... not even a receipt.

Can you imagine how different the world would be (and how much less Fidelity would make) if you had to pay fees out of pocket? A single piece of simple legislation that disallows silently deducting fees from your assets would be all it takes.

My co-founder and I sometimes sit at dinner thinking that if we do nothing else for the world but make fees (both expense ratio and more subtle ones like turnover-induced tax hit) more tangible, then we'll have succeeded.
Well, so much for the "Too many people are too bullish" item. People are not bullish and all of this has been discussed for weeks now. That doesn't preclude another panic of course, but I think it would take a significant outside event to cause it. A slightly worsening macro picture is not going to do it considering bond yields are so low. People are going to seek returns in the stock market.
I don't know this particular author's intentions, but I can definitely see a reason to create a new Lisp over Javascript: I like functional programming, so I'd like something Schemey or Clojurey rather than CLish.
Suddenly, the Safari Extension model makes a lot more sense.
Ashley Roy wrote a brilliant essay on this matter: http://madisonobjectivists.wordpress.com/2010/07/01/a-mosque...

Just in case that link breaks someday, here's a quote that you can use to search for the rest of it:

"As an opponent of the mosque, I wish to demonstrate the level at which I think this discussion must proceed. In particular I aim to show that if one regards the mosque as an objective threat, then building the mosque, not banning it, constitutes a violation of individual rights. On this view, its prohibition (or destruction) would neither entail granting exceptional powers to government nor fueling “the danger of rapidly accelerating tyranny.” Defending freedom can hardly be construed as tyrannical, unconstitutional or the lesser of two evils. Therefore to support the mosque, one mustn’t view it as an objective threat. It is this issue that must be decided.

As I see it, public advocacy of Islam assumed the status of a threat when first the Twin Towers fell in its name (and possibly before). This threat is infinitely more severe and unambiguous when issued at Ground Zero. If individual Muslims wish to separate their advocacy of Islam from the war being waged against us, they must explicitly denounce all translations of Islam into violent political practice—the opposite of erecting a mosque over the graves of persons killed by its enactment."
Hulu readies for IPO... still not making a profit.
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True, I have run into these limits with CouchDB. Anyways this is a cool storage and I found workarounds like pre- and post filtering or multiple-step lookups.
You will seriously find a much more supportive environment in a random town in rural America for $250 a month rent than in a shallow racist metropolis openly employing slave labor.
A lot of these responses are such outliers compared to the people I know in real life. Most people take a lot longer that 3 years. Most of these responses are going to skew your definition of norm.
This will be my next project. You can also use map/reduce for many interesting statistics right in the DB.
Well, the best way is learning to code.

However this is extremely time intensive, and can defocus you from your primary skills and abilities which would be most beneficial to the company anyway.

The second best way is to project manage some software projects. This will give you several sobering doses of reality, and will provide you with very useful reference experiences and skills in relation to software.

So, put together a spec for something you need done. Write it down in plenty of detail.

Then try to find someone to do it for you for a fixed price.

(Advanced Level : Find someone to do it for you at an hourly rate.)

Ask them to keep you up to date on their progress, and to keep you abreast of the challenges and problems they face.

Offer yourself as a sounding board to talk out problems, and challenges. The more you listen to people talk about software, the more you'll start to get an intuitive understanding of whats going on, and how developers approach development.

After a few hours, the first thing you'll notice, is the need to make everything as simple, and distilled as possible.

That whizbang spec you put together that will revolutionize life on planet Earth? As you have written it, it will take 40,000 man years and will require a budget of the GDP of a European nation.

Get used to cutting things down into bite sized chunks, and cutting those chunks into bite sized chunks.

After about 5 or 6 software projects, you will have a decent understanding of the complexities and difficulties in software development.

Ideally, most of those projects will be complete failures.

Then you will have an advanced understanding of the complexities and difficulties in software development.

After completing these tasks, you will never again utter the phrase : "But it's just a simple requirement. Just do it, it should only take an hour or two."

You should also be filled with respect and admiration for people who can turn ideas and solutions into workable and clean software.

You are now ready to not make your technical co-founder go completely insane.

Good luck !
thanks for the info! I did not know he was that technical. I'll have to go reread my early Apple history again. But despite this angle, I think we agree he made a great "biz" cofounder partner to Woz.
Following on again... allowing a legal firm to have a company account whereby the company paid for the storage of their employees would be a good thing.

This is a just collection of users, perhaps identified strongly by their company email address... and as each user works on a different case they should see their own thing or things of shared tags (multiple people working on the same account).

The company shouldn't lose access to a cached URL just because an employee leaves and decides not to renew their sub with you. Hence the need for a company account.

The company should also be able to control what is made public and to review all public items. This takes care of ensuring that research into defence isn't leaked... perhaps a simple approval process on what is made public (whereby a named person for a tag approves items within that tag being made public).

Then make it so that you bill the legal firm on a monthly basis and show the proportion of storage per tag (they will re-bill their client accounts) and you have a winner.

After that the only thing you have to do is sell it to a few firms.
manufacturer mbtf testing, well, I would not in any way trust a manufacturers numbers compared to the numbers of a rival manufacturer. there are far too many small, subtle things you can do to inflate your MBTF numbers.

Even if they were trying to be honest, testing wear (where wear might be mostly, say, how often the damned thing gets dropped) is really hard. On average, how many times a year does a laptop get dropped? and is that number the same as the times a netbook gets dropped? is there something about it's size/shape (or, unknowably at product launch-time, the demographics of the buyers) that cause netbooks to get dropped more or less?
The frontend is in Python. It talks to the Clojure backend via a REST api.

All data heavy lifting is done in the Clojure side.
Not very surprising, but there is a perfect correlation between the major "junctions" and Amazon's 4 data centers spanning the world, situated in North California (us-west-1), North Virginia (us-east-1), Ireland (eu-west-1) and Singapore (ap-southeast-1).

Recently I published an article describing how we find the closest data center using GeoIP and indexing, might be of interest.
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/geoip-amazon-regions
>As an aside I do agree with him that Android is more fragmented now than J2ME was back in the day.

Eh?

What with MIDP1.0 (which doesn't even have floating point), 2.0, CLDC1.1 and 2.0, plus various JSR's, and, the real killer, serious, often strange incompatibilities between devices (and there are at least an order of magnitude more J2ME devices out there), I'm not really sure how you can make that claim.

Fragmentation is certainly a worry for Android, but stating that things are currently worse than with J2ME seems very inaccurate.
It is kind of ridiculous to hear people freely mixing "people, food and culture" and "government". What could me MORE idiotic?
Groupthink on HN:

- Bashing liberal arts and academia; makes the engineering crowd feel a lot better about themselves.

- Bashing business-dev. See above.

- Idea that Web 2.0 is somehow revolutionary and makes the world a better place. Justifies inane CRUD applications and re-inventing the wheel.

- Lots of water-down self-help articles written with a tech perspective. Advice for startup's. But no concrete statistics, spec's or implementation to follow through on idea's. To preach to the choir and boost blog traffic.

- Idea that entrepreneurship is a lifestyle; Fail early and often, iterate and release often; work hard to get your FU money. Makes geeks feel good about themselves, to focus solely and highlight their relative superiority in tech skills; builds an illusion that somehow working on programming or making a huge financial exit will resolve all other issues in life.

- NoSQL/Cassandra/CouchDB, new technologies that are fun to use in a hobby project and have nowhere the scalability, durability, and customization of production-grade frameworks used in running real life software; Promoted by geeks to stick to the man who prefers Java/C++/.net.
I think you could make it clearer as to what the site is about. "Stop guessing, make informed decisions" - how are you going to help me do that? Is it just another way to look at charts? Can you explain why it is better than Google Charts, or Yahoo?

I would also worry about reliability and how up to date the data is. A page that addresses such concerns would be one of the first things I am looking for.
Both Canadian and Mexican are inexplicably missing from your reference.
No Shit Mr. Recruiter Idea Man, no one with a brain in their skull works for FREE. Didn't your mom tell you that?
Agreed. It shouldn't surprise me, but it still does every time Vim has a new release.

What's more, it's awesome that new releases still bring new functionality to the table.
Muscat could have been Dubai if they had developed their port. I don't think Dubai is in a worse place than Muscat in the long term.

The reason people see Dubai going down is the same reason people saw it go up - ambitious/optimistic development by the 'socialistic' ruler.
So, they want your help now, for some slice of theoretical profits at some future date, at which point they might be profitable. Further, they're not splitting all the profits with everybody, but just 1/5th of them, and you would get 1/9th of that even though you'd be %25 of the workforce. Meaning they keep %80 of the profits and all the equity.

You'd be better off going into competition with them. I'm sure you can find an engineer like the one engineer they have and split the equity 50/50. Or find an engineer and one of whatever-it-is the other 2 co-founders bring to the table.

This is not a promising startup if this is the kind of deal they are offering... because they won't be able to get good people.

If you want employees who aren't getting big chunks of equity, then you need to pay them a market salary.

You're giving up market salary and getting a vague promise of a fraction of a theoretical future profits.
All you need is this: http://railstutorial.org/book

Hartl is a good writer and he covers the whole web stack. Besides, the book is great for all levels.

Yes, I felt the same way as you did about python, but there is nothing wrong with the Ruby camp either. I've spent some time with django as well, but there's definitely some overlap.

I'd suggest that you finish the RailsTutorial book for getting a good exposure to the whole web stack and then decide for yourself if Ruby or Python is right for you. But, seriously checkout the table of contents for a good measure first.

If you don't wanna waste too much time, checkout http://www.tryruby.org to get a glimpse into the ruby world.
I just wanted to post that too, you beat me to it.

Seriously, go read it. It's an amazing report.
Germany does well because China, India, South Korea and Brasilia are not that badly affected by the US crisis. They are still buying machines and cars.

It is not that the german government is doing anything better than others. We are just lucky that our economy is based on exporting cars.
In my opinion, Metafilter is what HN wishes it could be, and is full of both more interesting content and usually better discussion.