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One of my professors in college encouraged me to do a PhD, get on a tenure track position in some college, and then wait for it ... slack for the rest of my life.

Her words were something like: "then you could go to the gym, travel, take it easy, do whatever you want -- they can't fire you."

As she was saying it, I realized she was also talking about herself and her own career.

Good colleges have well known, hard working professors. Other colleges have some good professors too, but also attract a lot of those who game the system to get a tenure then just sit on their ass until the day they die while getting payed (often the state's public funds).

Yes, sure there is pressure from the department head. There is positive re-enforcement for those who seek grants and funding from the industry. Some can get into administrative duties if they don't feel like research and they can boss others around while getting a slightly higher salary. But many just get holed up in their offices, doing shit. Some pretend to "research" crap so outlandish and useless that they might as well not do anything as it is just a waste of resources.
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Nice. On the first sight it just looked like Chrome's JavaScript debugger, but it is a full featured (remote) debugger using Chrome/webkit as a front-end. Really nice.
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I'm not sure, but the visual part of the videos looks a lot like visualizations I've seen in algorithms classes where the speed does represent the speed of the sort. So I'd guess that it does here as well.

These are really great. As a musical person it engrained these concepts that much deeper for me. My wife, who is not much of a computer science person like the merge sort the best.
John Boyd was one of the greatest strategist of the modern military era. In this case he was talking about working for a promotion versus working towards making the airforce better.

The full quote is here: http://www.lesc.net/blog/be-or-do-col-john-boydrsquos-words-...

Boyd is credited as coming up with the strategy for the kuwait war and is supposed to be the reason why so few American lives were lost in that war.

His papers on "Creation and Destruction" and "OODA Loop" are classics. A must read.
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I understand that feeling and its not the real reason why I stated that indian managers are mostly bad. I also mentioned that there is an inherent selection bias.

My friends and I have had many many managers and a good many were indian. Only one of them I would rate as good. Funnily enough I used to be his manager a long time ago. I've actually learnt a lot from his style of leadership though I've never worked under him.

He (ie 1) is the exception who IMHO proves the rule.
It's a style of building that was very popular doing the boom in Silicon Valley during the 80's and early 90's. Construction crews would pour the walls into molds, let them dry, and then literally tilt them up and put a roof on them.

It was weird to drive through parts of the Silicon Valley (e.g., North 1st St.) finding buildings had been tilted up in what had been flat land the week before.

Quite a few of those buildings are empty now.
Hey, what's wrong? It is so cool and modern Lisp implementation which runs on even more cool and super-efficient JVM (who said Ernang?!), so, why not?! Let's port HN news app to Clojure and see how much users it can handle. Every one know that Jetty is so cool! ^_^
I think you'd have to go a long way south to get a lot cheaper. Here in northern Italy, things are somewhat cheaper than up there (or at least than in Tirol), but probably not so much that it'd be worth your while to pick up and move (although my standard offer stands: come by Padova and I'll take you out for drinks and/or pizza or something as time permits).

I think to get really cheap, you'd have to go to Portugal, in terms of "south".

Why not move to a cheaper bit of Germany, like Berlin? You wouldn't be so cut off that way: you'd be able to meet and talk with other people working on startups.
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It seems they hand-picked all of their "progressive" cities, and pointed out excluding "tier one" cities. I too could pick my "progressive" cities to isolate a particular statistic.
Guess how many misspellings average Joe would made on this domain name, even if he managed somehow to remember it for more than a 30 seconds? ^_^
Too many people think that SUVs are 'safe' because of stuff like this. They feel that they will buy it, it will be a 'tank,' and they can drive any-which-way, completely care-free (nevermind things like the higher center-of-gravity...).
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But we all know there's an upper limit.. IQ hits 140 at 2:30am bedtime, and flips to -140 at 3:00am. I'm heading down that slippery slope right about now.
One thing that would be really good to see come out of this IMHO is a better profile for tech startups in Aus. The more open this can be around tech scene, gotchas and contacts focussed on Australia the better. Most information and discussion I've seen tends to be US based not surprisingly; This doesn't always translate well, particularly around company structure, equity, tax etc. You know, all the small stuff that can kill you.

Looking forward to see what develops.
I'm incredibly excited about this as a uni student in Sydney. I'm hopeful that by the time I graduate that the concept of the Silicon Beach will take off.

The University of Sydney have recently introduced a course focusing on Tech Venture Creation[1] and most of the people on that page are involved somehow (including Ryan from Omnisio, Bart from Tjoos and our lecturer Bill Bartee), so this isn't the only new action on the Sydney startup front.

[1] - Tech Venture Creation course - http://techventurecreation.wordpress.com/
I must be missing something basic here.

Where is the search box?

Otherwise -- very nice! (Although somewhat close to StackOverflow in typical use)
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The way I model it is that these guys believe that they will not get ahead if they dont pressure their employees. And their fear of being let go and losing their line in the g.c. queue forces them to put even more pressure on their employees.

One manager (IIT + MIT) once called my friend while he was waiting for the delivery of his second child. Incredible.

This is new york so it might be completely different on the West Coast.
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I agree that since we are in New York its a cut throat environment but I would say that we have one of the best work cultures in the city. Other places (banks + hedgefunds) are much much worse.

But yeah it might be very different on the west coast.

And your wrong its not easy to change a work visa because you lose your line in the G.C race if your not in the 3rd stage. Thats the clincher.

With present EB3 approval rates, its possible this could set you back 5 years. EB3 India is a mess right now.
You just dredged up some long forgotten pain in me.
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Oops, yeah. Thats what I meant.

Haha.. actually, maybe you don't want to take my economic advise.
Yes but you can't discount that. Another example: cycling is only a viable means of transport because of the extensive road network built for (and by!) oil-powered vehicles.
European leaders have already set aside a bailout package for their banks in case any pigs-nation defaults.
It's hard to imagine the defaulting nation to remain in the Eurozone though.

The penalties of defaulting are probably already negotiated to far outweigh the penalty of stark austerity measures.
I don't like Farmville much, but attaching some sort of negative reaction to Membase because Zynga uses it is pretty silly IMHO.

If anything, I'm impressed that Membase is standing up to the torturous load of all those strawberry harvests and ponies. :)

We're in the middle of doing some testing with it at Loggly, and we've found them exceedingly responsive to our requests.
I say trying to fire him, but that is really more what I considered to be an almost forgone conclusion. Everybody on the team was sick of needing to pick up the pieces he dropped. Just like any company, we had to go through an attempt document him formally trying to improve to get to the point we could let him go.

So I did. I gave him a plan that he had to live up to. It was non-trivial, since he was a senior engineer making more money than almost anybody the engineering team, but it was doable.

My boss then made the mistake of moving him to a different manager to follow through with the plan. The goal was to show that we weren't just out for blood, but throwing somebody into a new environment (new team, new project, new coworkers) creates too many variables to track. On top of that, this engineer survived by hiding in those variables (and we knew that) and, as a result, was able to survive what would most likely have resulted in termination under me. Since he survived, my reputation with the engineering group was blown.

Quite literally, this guy was Dilbert's Wally. Six months later, the new manager was lamenting to me about this guy.

Lest it sound like I just have a grudge, I actually like the guy (even though I know he really doesn't like me). He is actually a really great people-person that, IMO, shouldn't be writing code. I really believe he should be a sales engineer. I think he would make a near-perfect sales engineer, in fact. I gave him that advice, but he didn't appreciate it. I don't blame him, but I stand by it.
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Multiple things:

1. Nearly no one lost his job in Germany in the last recession compared with past recessions. So yes, many companies are not eager to get new workers at the moment (especially smaller companies), but most people don't need a new job.

2. It is possible to get a new job in Germany at the moment, and comparing the situation between Germany and USA: It is far easier here than in the USA. The unemployment rate in Germany is more or less constantly going down since the begin of the year.

3. While Germany has pretty high (social) taxes the maximum is around 60%, which is still high, but (far?) less than 70%. This includes basic health care (which gets worse every year, but different topic), state pension (same problem as basic health care) and payment for the unemployed (which is pretty shoddy since they changed the system to something called Hartz IV).

The real problem is that the maximum taxes are around 60k Euro and that this maximum is not adjusted for inflation. This leads to bracket creep, which hits the middle class pretty hard.

edit: clarified statement in 1.
Is that a statement when you post it at night?
maybe he is creating a bunch of sites in the hope that one of them goes viral? such a strategy may have merit. it's very much hit or miss. but if he keeps trying he may have a hit eventually.
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There is also http://www.pollenizer.com/pollenizer-investing-in-web-startu... (Sydney based, AFAIK) - they are nice folk too.

Great to see !
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It's a good point. That and the job board seemed pretty lucrative. But I doubt it compares to just having everyone subscribe.
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If it is very very hard to be a good manager, it doesn't matter if your manager is Indian or not. right?

I've been on H1-B and I didn't think about my H1-B on a day to day basis to be a lousy manager/person.
On that list could be any number of things like mortgage, car payment, family & kids etc.

Your comment is great for explaining why being a good manager is hard. Not sure if I would assume that the comments about Madhu Yarlagadda are true.
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Is there an alternative browser that does not use WebView, which handles all the html for you?? Apart from Opera of course, which is more an image viewer.

I don't think there is. There is a lot of stuff you can do with UIWebView, which is what all those other apps are doing, like blocking ads, adding tabs, storing stuff offline.
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I think Skype made the right decision. As someone who lived through one I can tell you first hand that a company facing an IPO has to become all about image for that brief period between announcement and offering. The game is all about stability, professionalism and competence.

So the arguments you lay out are exactly why he needed to go. Because it WASN'T a big deal and he made it in to one. He(and his wife) did the exact opposite of what you should do and they did it publicly. The last thing a company facing an IPO needs is a loose canon who melts down in public.
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Yes. This is true, but this is now what people are asking. I didn't mean to imply that he wasn't a skilled person in many ways.
I noticed that too! Good stuff.
Wow, Ryan Junee used to tutor me in first year computer science back at Sydney University... he's come quite a way since then it seems! :)

I hope it works out well for them, Australia needs something like that -- I have more a few friends who have left Australia to pursue cutting edge jobs in tech.
I had another guy who was in this situation that you describe above. He actually used to be my boss before I became his.

Made more than me. His code was crazy bad. I mean I think he used to obfuscate it on purpose so as to keep his job. Every class was a friend of another class. But the code would work. It was a nightmare to maintain.

I was asked by senior management several times to get rid of him. I just kept thinking of his kids. I knew I couldnt live with myself if I did it. Because his intent was always good and he would do work that no one else wanted to do.

If I had to keep him for another year, I might have pulled the trigger - but I doubt it.

If it was my own startup I would have fired him immediately. You probably did the right thing.
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Why wait until you graduate? As a student you have loads of free time, and it will look great on your CV even if nothing comes of it.
That was super cool! I really enjoyed how my brain started matching the sound and the bar heights in such a way that by the end I said "of course that one sounds like that".
They also managed to hand-wave "progressive city" into "diverse city". Once they did that, it would have been nice if they compared the sum of black and immigrant populations as a somewhat more reasonable measure of diversity. Even better, they could have done some income level or cost of living analysis to see how much that explains the statistics.
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This is also what I would like to know. How many are spams, automatic notifications, "cold calls" and undesirable personnal sollicitations, mail sent to him to be in the loop but which are not really relevant to him, etc.

Regarding your second point, I do think it is possible to have many hundred mails per day of personnal sollicitations which I would call legitimate mails.

When most people cross the street no one cares and they can move freely. If it is a well known person, like a star, many people will try to talk to him, ask for something, or whatever to the point they can't move or even become in danger. So it is possible that some people become overdrawn by legitimate mails. But this is quite exceptional and concluding from this that "mail sucks" is not very fair.

It sucks and in many ways, but not because of that type of situation.
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> become enamored with a language that has roots that go back to 1957, i.e. Lisp?

Duh. What does that punk think that the "60" in Algol 60 stands for? Y'know, the bondage and discipline languages also have an ancestry that goes pretty far back.

And I'd choose C++ (or Java) over Algol just as I'd choose Clojure over Lisp1.5 any time.
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I've had experience with both Scala and OCaml (both which allow non-functional programming also). F# is the Microsoft version of OCaml.

Scala is easier to learn if you know Java, and has excellent IDE support in both Eclipse and Intellij IDEA. "Programming in Scala" is a good introduction and reference for Scala (http://www.artima.com/shop/programming_in_scala), but doesn't cover the new features in Scala 2.8.

I had good experiences with OCaml also (which compiles down to machine code, so has the potential to be faster than Scala if performance is critical). I believe it has more advanced tail-recursion optimizations. It seemed that floating point arithmetic was slow because each number had to be stored on the heap separately.
You've basically just listed the specs for my new Samsung netbook. I'm really not sure how to feel about the fact that it's design was dictated by the fact that it shipped with Windows 7 starter.

It's one of the best things I've bought in a while, though some level of credit for that has to go to Ubuntu which I stuck on it shortly after getting it. I did actually give Windows 7 a go and think about dual-booting, as I thought they might work better with Flash and the touchscreen, the combination of which make this a good iPad alternative for my young son too.

I was somewhat relieved to find that both performed better under Ubuntu and various other annoyances with Windows 7 led to it getting wiped completely.
A source for the cost of washing out bottles? No. I guess you might use about 100mℓ of water that you've heated from, say, 28°C up to 40°C, which is 1200 calories, or about 5 kilojoules. But the cost of the detergent and the new bottlecap might be more.

The cost of recycling an aluminum can, however: an aluminum can is about 14 grams of aluminum, which is about 300 kilojoules according to the above; supposedly (sorry, no source handy) recycling it takes about 10% of that amount, or 30 kJ; that's about US$0.0004 of energy.

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Direct link to the Startmate website - http://www.startmate.com.au/

I love this (and have heard it before, around HN a lot actually): "The biggest risk in a startup is not whether someone will steal your idea or if you can build a product but rather that no one will care."
I am really eager to add very basic science & statistics to your arguments (please excuse me, I am a Richard Feynman fan):
1.) How many Indian managers have you worked with till now?
2.) How many of them did you find bad?
3.) Most importantly how many Indian tech managers exist?

I am really even more curious to find out the numbers before I can make any logical classification. However, if I am unclear about 3.) I would refrain from passing any strong judgement.

Totally my view of looking at things though!
Could be a great test for the freemium model - giving away "You suck" for free, "You're adequate" for 2$ and ""You're awesome" for 10$ a month :)
It looks like Mick Liubinskas (Co-Founder of Pollenizer) is one of the Startmate 'mentors', whatever contribution that means.
Thank you for putting all this material, extremely useful for those who can't attend the founder conference in person. Those speakers are excellent and their concise ( brutal? ) way of putting things always leave me more energized.
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My preference is for erlang. I believe it is the only one that does concurrency "right", though I don't know the others well enough to prove it. Any blocking, as in transactional memory or locks is, in my opinion, a real concurrency problem.

As I learned erlang and OTP I kept finding design choices I really appreciated.

The pragmatic programmers book on erlang was written by the creator of the language and I think is one of the better programming books ever. Clearly he's spent several decades teaching this language to perplexed students, cause he found the right way to illuminate it.
(A little semantic aside: Apple cannot censor. Governments can, companies cannot. If we broaden the definition of censorship to include companies Apple already censors. Their system is a picture perfect example of censorship, you could use it as an example to explain censorship to school kids – but so are newspapers. This all doesn’t really matter because the word censorship doesn’t have some sort of magic properties. Something can be just as despicable as some activities described by the word censorship even if the usual definition of censorship doesn’t include it. Something can also be a perfectly reasonable activity even if the usual definition of censorship does include it.)
Well-behaved desktop apps have a far stronger version of 'back': 'undo'
Thanks for the link. I can't find the words you quote on that page. Are they in one of the eleven PDF files linked from that page?

What's "primary" energy consumption?

Suppose it's 8.3% instead of 3.9%. Do you not share the view that 8.3% is a relatively small proportion?

Is there a way I can make the calculations any clearer? I wasn't being deliberately obscure. I didn't even do any unit conversions until close to the end, and that was only to compare energy usage for lighting with your figure of an unspecified number of "MW".

Do you have any information on average lighting usage? The reports on that page all seem to be about lighting usage in the US, which is almost guaranteed to be far from the average.
Word count, definitely; maybe other features like that? Open Office is sluggish.
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There's surely a market, that point I do get, (how big I guess we'll find out) but sometimes I don't get this kind of allocation of resources. Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should.

Anyway to the point: the site is awful. Bright yellow background? It's too simplistic (too 90s) and it just seems like a "scammy" site--which ironically (by some's standards, anyway) it might as well be.
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This makes me want to sort something. The loose change strewn all over my desk. The contents of my fridge. The words on this page. Anything.
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