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apply for a hsmp visa in UK or canadian permanent residence.

Most of the advice in this thread - except for the first two - alain and tololRon - is very very dangerous - it'll get you barred from US forever if you try some of the stunts recommended.
Want. Is there a single decent universal remote on the market? I've tried many of them, including the pricey ones.
"Think Different" could easily apply to the idea of a platform you don't need to run an anti-virus on otherwise deal with the quirks of a traditional desktop OS. Also let's not get too bogged down in nostalgia -- at the time of the "Think Different" ads the Mac was far more proprietary and closed than it is today.
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What can't you believe?

Us are always better than them it's a cornerstone of human culture.
Your reasoning doesn't work if the language in question really doesn't have a word for 'left' or 'right'.

An explanation as to why an argument isn't a proof doesn't "not work" simply because the statement being argued happens to be true. GP suggests that a particular argument is used to justify the claim that some language lacks some term, and he points out that that argument does not prove the claim.
Not really, being mailbombed with 1k emails was a dramatic and painful experience in the early 90s, tho. Some ISPs had only POP3 access back then, and many MUAs didn't had a "delete without retrieving" feature.
My first interview for a technical job, I showed up in a suit and tie. The rest of the interview had each person start by asking some variant of "wait, are you sure you're interviewing for engineering and not marketing?" The feeling this conveyed was that if you wore a suit, you couldn't possibly be a real engineer.

I landed the job - a summer internship - but the suit was a distraction. It certainly did not help me relax and perform my best. The job rocked, so I'm glad the people there were able to look past the suit. Since then, I've taken to asking people what kind of dress code they expect on an interview.
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Classic, "I Just Started My FriendFeed"
It'd be like pitching an investor and then having them say: "I like what you're doing ... But it sounds like you might not be paying everyone proper overtime, and some of your contractors should probably be reclassified as employees."

For a start, it's nothing like that and I think you're being a bit extreme with your counter example. Your example includes 'probably', ie subjective information on the part of the VC. I my original example it's likely that the founder out-right admitted his out-of-status.

I don't know the back-story and I only heard it as secondary info (ie not from either party involved) but knowing the SEC and other regulations VCs are under they may well be legally bound to report this and other information.

A closer to home example: I know my CPA is legally bound to inform the IRS and DHS of any issues with my immigration status, insider trading on my investments and any tax irregularities.

To that end, keep in mind it is also hard to pay tax on income if you are working illegally and not get found out. And if you don't pay tax...
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade... but how do we know this is the real Paul Graham?

Call me a wee bit skeptical.
Create a premium product with a number of features that you can defend as costing lots of $ to develop, see if you can interest people in the premium package.

If enough people do drop the original one and make the premium package the 'normal' one, offer a discount to your old users.
I suspect Google and Yahoo don't have the same goal. Otherwise Yahoo wouldn't put a link to mail.

But this is exactly the type of reasoning that this silly quote leads to. That simply having less makes something better.

Apple could easily make a computer with no keyboard, no mouse, no OSK, no visual display. Simply a touchpad, to input a binary code that corresponds to text and numeric output that corresponds to what color and x,y location to draw pixel. Of course, this numeric output would simply be a binary light. But that's just stupid.

The reason you add something is almost always because there is a goal that you'd like to accomplish. Yahoo probably thought you should be a click away from your email account. Google doesn't.
As exciting as it is for IE9 to enter the next-gen browser wars in earnest I wonder if they are already too late.

IE releases are still tied to the years long windows ship cycle, which is a significant disadvantage when all your competitors are on months long cycles. Saddled with such a huge OODA disadvantage as well as all the strategy-tax BS from MS is there any hope?

By the time IE9 is actually out Chrome may well have hardware accelerated everything, an LLVM client/plugin model, javascript that runs faster than Java, and client-side Erlang support (or who knows what), with Firefox not far behind. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.
Soundbyte = 8 soundbits :)
Java isn't really that good fit for real-time web applications as it usually eats a lot memory - especially if you compare it to C/C++ or node.js (V8).

A while ago I rewrote a system from Java (that used JBoss Netty) to node.js. The node.js solution used about 10x less memory. And memory is a crucial element of scaling real-time web applications.
That's still in progress (and, given that Knuth is more than seventy years old and still has at least 3 books to go before he will begin to revise them, odds are such a revised set will never be released).
Germany..
the thing that turned me off was you have to signup to see what it really is like.
"extraneous" is the key word there. You seem to have missed it.
Pretty much. I've seen this with Angelina Jolie and pg (how's that for company, Paul?), but not with any of us mere mortals.

I also have an account that has never been active that fits my domain - and site - name. It's not the end of the world, but the floodgates have already been opened.

An auto-purge feature would also work.
It is not just them. http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20100827/einstein-would-h...
All the rest of Europe is 'other' ?
pg has now responded in this thread at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640658 which is solid evidence that this is real.
A verified account would be nice.
Shady and manipulative? I don't think so.

If I were a potential acquirer, I would be happy to have a window in to their decision making process.
The claim that language shapes our thinking is consistent with the claim that language is itself shaped, by environmental factors, customs, etc. Also, I think the effect of language on our thinking is not so simple as "We give directions from an egocentric perspective, so this makes us more selfish," as if we are naive and unaware of how our own language works. It's possible that it works in the opposite way: because we think of direction egocentrically, in order to give directions, you have to imagine yourself in someone else's shoes. You also end up with phrases like "Who's 'left'? My left or your left?" which draws attention to the fact that two people see the world differently. Really, our idea of direction promotes the Western cultural idea of individuals as different from each other, and also the idea of equality between individuals. I can't force you to adopt my directions because you are facing a different way; literally, you have a different viewpoint.

Geographic directions transcend my own personal viewpoint, but they also transcend everyone else's viewpoint as well. Arguably, this would make people less sensitive to the issue of selfishness vs unselfishness, which is only a moral consideration when you assume individualism.
I wrongly assumed that someone would ask me between sessions if I needed to use the rest room.

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the local culture but in the countries I've lived this strikes me as a complaint valid only for a child. When adults need to use the restroom, they make their apologies, ask where the restroom is and go.

That aside, why would someone ask someone else if they need to use the restroom anyway? It's rude and isn't their business. If you think someone's being timid and really does need a break, it's more common to ask if they want to "take a break" rather than asking flat out if they need to go potty.
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That wouldn't have helped here -- @avi is a valid username, too.

Edit: It should definitely autocomplete based on who you're following, but pg wasn't yet following anyone when he sent his first tweet.
Not really, during the aacs thing digg literally stopped to function under the weight of 09 f9 subissions. In comparison I've seen more pro-Ron Paul sentimennt on the front page at any given time than I have prop 19 stuff today.
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Does anyone if you can buy a cardboard mockup of the boxed set that would look like the real thing when placed on your bookshelf next to "Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days"? I'm thinking $5.
Let the mote tutorials begin.
Start (too) high, go down. When you stop getting more-than-double the users for half the price, stop.
oh hell NO!
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In other words "the key to perfection is to take a perfect item and remove things that cause it to no longer be perfect". Clearly I'm the only person who thinks this is just flat out dumb. Why would you ever say that to someone except to irk them?

That's like saying the key to being correct is to take your correct statement and not put the word "not" in front of it.

So yes, if you have perfection, actions that lead away from it are problematic. I find it idiotic that this would bear repeating, but I guess I have a low threshold for this type of thing.
Why do you think they're rebelling? Isn't the most natural interpretation that the corporate statement ("we don't want to profit from this issue") is accurate, and that Conde Nast doesn't mind if Reddit runs the ads?
A rare, wonderful and inspiring look inside the greatest marketing organization ever created.

Many businesses create Ogilvy style campaigns that sell benefits (rather than features). For example:

"Only Dove is one-quarter moisturizing cream"

"At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock"

Apple understands that they are essentially in a commodity business much like Nike. It's tough to sell benefits in that environment when your benefits are the same as everyone else's. In the market they're in, everyone already understands what the benefits are and most people can use a spreadsheet, word processor or web browser equally well on an Apple or PC.

What Apple did is create a new intangible and very powerful benefit with Think Different:

The words "Think different" translated into an Ogilvy style headline would say: "If you buy this product your friends and peers will think you are different and you will stand out from the crowd.". It's not possible to communicate that directly because it's an embarrassing subject. The Think Different campaign takes a wonderful indirect approach to addressing a sensitive issue and communicating that benefit.

This approach of creating a new intangible and emotional benefit in a commodity market has worked so well for Apple that they have incorporated the marketing approach into the entire organization including their sales strategy and their products. Whereas before their products focused on differentiated features, now they focus on emotional differentiation. Apple stores are an emotional experience.

Apple's smaller market share facilitates this approach because their customers have been the minority. So you're automatically "different" if you buy Apple. These days that is less true, so it will be interesting to watch the marketing organization evolve as their market dominance increases.

Here are my notes from the video:

1. Marketing is about values

2. You don't have much of a chance to get people to remember you.

3. You have to be really clear on what you want people to know about you.

4. A great brand needs investment and caring if it's going to retain it's relevance and vitality.

5. At the time of this video Apple's brand had suffered from neglect.

6. Don't talk about features.

7. Nike makes you feel something different from a shoe company.

8. Nike honors great athletes and they honor great athletics.

9. The question Apple asked was "Our customers want to know who is Apple and what is it that Apple stands for? Where does Apple fit in this world?"

10. Apple is not about making boxes to help people get their jobs done.

11. Apple's core value is that "We believe that people with passion can change the world for the better."

12. Apple is going back to their core value mentioned in 12.

13. "Values and core values mostly shouldn't change" ~Jobs

14. "The things that Apple believed at it's core are the same things Apple stands for today"

15. The ad is a way to communicate this.

16. Jobs is clearly and intentionally emotionally engaged with the ad and that engages his audience.

17. The ideas above were distilled into "Think Different."
The cost of obtaining a trademark in North America is well under $500. This is very much doable for any "startup" unless it's a disposable toy project of some kind.
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Technology isn't the only comparative advantage.

Nor, is it necessarily the best option when maximizing comparative advantage over another firm.

Nor, is implementing new technology necessarily a comparative advantage, it could be a disadvantage (ie. if the technology fails either technically or on the business side)

It's often the most difficult or worst option because of the costs and risks involved.
Except in limited circumstances, there is no legal duty for citizens to report crimes or otherwise be enlisted as law enforcement agents. Several dozen US cities are 'sanctuary cities' with official policies against verifying immigration status or assisting with the enforcement of immigration laws.

CPAs may be required to report money-laundering or outright tax-evasion, but I've never heard of them being required to report 'issues with immigration status' or something as minor as 'irregularities'. I'd need an authoritative citation to believe you on that.
google is not just succesful because they have a cleaner page but cause they had better algorithms?
Looks like a great game for on subways/trains and such to scam people a bit. I'm impressed.
That's a thoughtful post, but I think you got the wrong message out of it. Jobs wants to create computers for people who "think different" in a way that changes the world. He's not talking about it as a fashion statement as you imply when you say:

> The words "Think different" translated into an Ogilvy style headline would say: "If you buy this product your friends and peers will think you are different and you will stand out from the crowd."

tc's comment does bring up the fact that that's not what stuck, but it is what Jobs was trying to get at.
I don't think that will work. If you have a choice between "cheap but does what I need" and "expensive and does what I need", which will you pick?

People aren't going to spend more for the hell of it. I don't think this is a useful technique for determining the minimum viable cost for a service.
I love the spirit of these conditions and the policy in general, but I can't help but think a leaf could be taken from Nordstrom's book in turning the policy into a one-liner:

"Use your best judgment at all times."
The second section discusses SOAP/REST and XML/JSON, saying that XML Schema attempted to solve two problems (document formats + object wire format), but it predictably became too complex. He claims that we now use REST (not SOAP) and JSON (not XML), so the "impedance mismatch" problem is now solved.

Is this true?

JSON is used mainly where there is Javascript (ie. client side webpages - though that is becoming more and more inclusive these days... almost everything is a webapp (exceptions?)) - but it's schemaless (or typeless). While this is popular (eg key-value NoSQL stores, and dynamic typing in Ruby, Python, Perl), it's not right for everything. If you did want typed data, you'd probably just use XML Schema, since everything is already there.

I ask because of a startup idea based on XML Schema. It could survive XML Schema going away, but I'm not so sure about the apparent long-term trend away from schemas/types altogether. With fast-enough computers to nullify the speed advantage of static types, will the remaining advantage of type-safety be valuable enough on its own - What is the evidence for and against? Even databases are going schemaless (it seems).
I've worn a suit to almost every interview I've been on. In big companies, it is usually expected and never looked down upon. Smaller places tend to be a little more casual.

It really depends on company size, industry, and region.

Also, I agree with you. Wearing a nice suit isn't uncomfortable at all. It is the dress shoes that kill me!
the reason wave failed was cause it was not integrated with gmail! It's that simple. All the rest of the arguments are just killing the dead animal
There are countries all over the world populated by great hackers - may I refer you to an earlier reply (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1640665) to explain my (admittedly hasty) reasoning for choosing these in particular. So far though, the US is definitely dominating the list...but that might be because most Europeans (myself included) should probably be tucked up in bed around now.
Every car ever sold had to compete with other cars that were 'cheap but does what you need', and yet, more expensive cars still get sold.

Even the same model car but a more expensive trim will sell for a higher price than the same model without the trim.

Features can be used to substantially increase the price of a product while only marginally increasing the cost.
Yes, $10K per year is in-state tuition at my school.
I'm in Europe and definitely not tucked in (2:20 am here).
Doubling my price (am i crazy)
That's pretty reasonable with MIX, given that it's a terrible language that was obsolete before it was invented and that all the algorithms are described in English as well.
For those who might be confused by this comment, the original title ended with "... be one of his first followers."
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I have a hard bound set (without the case) that someone can have if they are around the San Jose area. Vols 1 - 3. Maybe a trade or something?
What you mean is that your real-time application was largely memory bound - other apps might require that sanely and rapidly coordinating access to shared state might be more critical than the cost of memory- with a collaborative whiteboard or the backend of a MMORPG you're probably going to run into difficulties with C/C++ and Node.js might very well be useless. There are domains where shared nothing just doesn't work.
You can obtain a registered trademark on your own name. I, in particular, would enjoy becoming Phil Welch®.
Depending on what options you picked during installation it may automatically send reports to MS without prompting.
There is an obvious flaw to this poll: hackers don't share the same time zone. For example, right now, it's still very early in the morning in India.
Ben Huh offers to buy Reddit
yeh this is useful detach/re-attach, however, I usually have a screen session opened locally so when I'm doing remote work I typically open several ssh connections since they are cheap -- anything I want to put into the background I do so the typical way and not through screen -- good point though
as i understood it you can patent improvements on patented technology even if you don't hold those patents. You just can't ever use your improvements without a license.

If that really is true, then Paul Allen isn't infringing, the people who are licensing from him are.
Well, it does legalize marijuana on the state level, and additionally taxes and regulates it. It may or may not be a de facto first step to federal deregulation.
It would certainly be considered illegal in some countries (France, I'm pretty sure) to have two prices at the very same moment, based on random, for the exact same product.
Actually, by spelling things out, we aim to make people feel more comfortable ordering books: it's clear that we've thought things out, and that there isn't some "mistake" you're going to make ordering (say) a copy of K&R2 when there are already 2 copies in the office ("your book privileges are suspended, Peter!").
The best way to attract a crowd for an event on college campuses is to offer free food.
Is anyone else reading this in his voice?
Well, this is getting very interesting.
> this guy is so out there I can't help but wonder if it's some sort of parody that I am missing.

I think you wildly misunderstood Reinhardt's simplification to express a simple opinion. Unfortunately, your writing is very unclear and difficult to follow.

Since I'm waiting for the delivery guy to bring dinner, I'll add my dim understanding of Reinhardt's post. Landsburg writes, "When Jack gains $10 and Jill loses $5, social gains increase by $5, so the policy is a good one." Reinhardt disagree that this is always "good". Society must make a value judgement about Jill's loses: if it's her last $5, is the policy still good? And if Jack is a billionaire, would that $10 gain offset Jill's suffering?

He's not saying that economists never think about this problem. He's saying that economists often will make a policy recommendation (lower tax on capital, higher tax on income) that presumably raises social welfare, while skipping over the ethical issues (higher tax on the poor, lower tax on the rich).

We want to pump $10 billion into the economy now. Should we give tax rebates as a % of taxes paid (more to rich, less to poor)? Or should we cut the payroll tax by a few thousand dollars (same for everyone, but more meaningful for poor)? The result is the same ($10B), but Reinhardt says there's a value judgement in the choice. This issue pops up everywhere, particularly in health care.
I use outdoors as a fridge/freezer in the winter. It works very well though you have to keep animals away.
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At least at the time Jobs was thinking different himself. Very powerful idea and transformation for the company. Really planted the roots of what the company has become today. The ad itself is powerful even when watched now, 13 years later.
If you're Canadian, I suggest subscribing to the Grasmick.com newsletter

Not sure if the newsletter is up to date but I noticed that the most recent items on Grasmick.com's News section dates back to 2001!

The world of immigration into the US has really changed quite a bit since 2001, post-9/11 especially. For a start the INS doesn't even exist anymore and was replaced with the DHS.

So if the rest of his information is from this era and pre-DHS then it's pretty much worthless.
interesting fix to this problem!
http://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/19781239949
Culturally, Cornell has always been a place that concentrates on theory and enduring research questions. After Cornell I spent time at Caltech and the difference in values and focus is large indeed. It seems every Caltech engineering/science faculty either has co-founded a tech company (successful or not), or is involved in experimental validation of some of their ideas.

I always thought the reason for Cornell's culture is mainly your point 0 - isolation from the Real World and from Money. The hippie vibe of Ithaca might also play a part. But the reason actually does not matter.

It might be best to go along with this current for your time there. Play to its strengths. Or, as amoore notes, you can find a niche, like in the Theory Center, where applications are more in the front.

Incidentally, I don't share your feelings in your point 2. But, I was in EE (a separate silo?)
thanks for this video - i just wrote a post about apple marketing comparing it to christian marketing - http://makebelieve1.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/apple-promises-...

one thing i disagree with what he says is that it is -not- nike who has the best marketing department of all times but christianity