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Sure. Let's say that your partner has a ton of money in the bank and you are dirt poor. (Exaggerated, but that makes it easier to see where the problems can come from).

After a year or two the business makes some money and you now have a steady living. Your majority partner decides to make an all-or-nothing ploy, it fails and you lose your living. He doesn't care because he already had his steady life. Of course, it could have gone the other way but the more risky a move the bigger the chance that it will fail so that's not a 50/50 thing.

It's just one of hundreds of variations to the theme but I think it clarifies the point sufficiently.

If all the partners in a business have a similar risk profiles then they are all going to be behind most of the strategic decisions, which in turn will help with both morale and explaining things to the home front (if you have one).
Agreed, this is a great book. I'm working through this right now and finding it very rewarding. It's very information-dense, has very little fluff, and is still surprisingly easy to work through.
Although someone who's geopolitically dogmatic might say it's the same thing, it was the Russian Empire rather than the then non-existent USSR that was the US's ally in WWI.
I have this same idea for a long time.
One thing I thought (to gain market) of was to restrict the clients for the app to a single country (personalized by local laws etc.) but in my country there is already a competitor, and making for other countries seems a bit over my hand.
Or, more accurately, it’s optimized to avoid all of the worst cases from the perspectives of the various factions/interests within the society, for which each faction is willing to give up its personal “best case”. (The idea of a universal “best case” or “worst case” is rather meaningless.)

Those interested in the original theory behind it should read Federalist #10 and Federalist #51, a pair of brilliant essays.

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm

http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa51.htm

(And if especially ambitious, should then read Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, and Tocqueville’s Democracy in America)
Give it another 10-20 years to see if the Chinese economy doesn't pop, before claiming the Chinese model to be superior in some way. The endless rows of empty buildings in Shanghai tell a different story, despite the "group of technocrats"' desire to keep that hushed.
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Whether "degrees Celsius" refers to a point on the Celsius scale or an interval is ambiguous and is usually determined by context. Although attempts at conventions have existed the effect of typing rather than writing was not considered when they were created and so those conventions are largely ignored. In this case there is no context so google uses "degrees celsius" and "celsius degrees" to distinguish between a scale point and an interval which is a nice natural language solution in my opinion.

To better see what is happening try:

0 degrees celsius + 10 celsius degrees
0 degrees celsius + 10 degrees celsius
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I actually agree with you about the definition of success. I would consider my next project a success if it somehow generates enough profit to allow me to dump the day job. However, that in itself is a lottery (the one I was referring to), since it is by no means certain that I will succeed. In this case, winning the lottery actually matters a lot to me personally, because it would give me the freedom to try and build more cool stuff.
And thus 32 °F = 16 °F, which, with conventional mathematics, can only be satisfied if °F = 0. Express this in English as "Fahrenheit is nothing", which is something that every European already knows. That's why we use Celsius :P
I've heard 5%, 10%, occasionally 15% many, many times, I've never heard a verifiable source.

The most recent number I can find is 2008 and that's at 5% with a downward trend: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Or ~2% in 2007 at http://visualrevenue.com/blog/2007/08/eu-and-us-javascript-d...

I don't think that number is going anywhere but down, no matter how many of your hacker friends are running noScript.

Sure you can argue you're losing x% of your possible conversions due to needing JS but you cannot quantify what percentage you gain by having a distinctly more fluid/exciting website or the cost of the features/polish you don't do because you're developing handling for no-js scenarios. Personally I'm a fan of graceful degradation in all but the most appish sites but at this point no-js is almost as edge-case as no-css.
to certain extend, jolicloud provides this.
I can't wait to see it. Flight Simulator is one of my favorite all time game. Great news !
It is interesting how much this blog post is not relevant to my status.
I always wanted to create my own startup, and nearly always had pet projects for this purpose on the side. It is no news to me that starting a startup is a cool thing.
I dont' watch TV, and I don't need a Palsma TV. But I have a family to care about, I live in a quite poor country and I need a day job.
I think I am a good developer, but I don't think my knowledge is a goldmine. They pay approximately $2000 per month for even very very good developers in my country. This is not a goldmine.
I made 3 projects to the sellable product phase in my life, and all failed.
The first was too ambitious and I could not keep up with competitors like google. (natural language translation from english to my mother language)
The second was an Indie game: The critics said it was done professionally, but it was not especially playable, it was not fun enough.
The third was not ambitious enough: This was a small software for the consumer market (language learning), It got lost amongst the thousands of small shareware tools on download.com and also there were free products which were partially competitors.

I start to lose my energy. (Having a boring day job for years is not fun.) Of course I build something again on the side. I think it is a better idea than the previous ones. I cannot stop. But I will never ever will have the optimism like the OP.
All valid points, I looked at it more from the maintainability point of view, not so much the speed angle. You will have to maintain a Photoshop file, have some mechanism in place to stitch together your sprites and export a truckload of different images. All that can be automated up to a point, but still. Seems like a lot of hassle.
But my point isn't about what the GPL gives you the right to do.

I don't see the Linux kernel devs getting sued or suing the *BSD kernel devs, although they share ideas all the time.

Also, people scale/modify the Linux/BSD kernel to fit their needs all the time. The Java patent grant only applies if you're not building a subset/superset of Java or if you're extending OpenJDK. But these aren't enough ... some people do not want GPL.

That's what I mean by "the spirit of open-source" ... it's a collaboration effort from which everyone benefits.

And as of this recent announcement, OpenJDK is open-source only by license ... if that wasn't clear already.
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I also think that you have put the horse in front of the cart.

Start an idea pad- this can be a note on your phone or whatever, and whenever you have a problem with something or think "I with I could...." then write it down
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Does this price include interactive lessons, or just pre-recorded sounds ? i.e. is there any way you can have interaction (e.g. lessons checked) with a native speaker ?
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You are absolutely right in pointing out that Linux has greatly benefited from being able to run Oracle. But I would argue that Linux no longer needs Oracle more than Oracle needs Linux. Linux has been mainstream for many years now, while Oracle has lost a lot of ground to Mysql, Postgres, etc and is greatly waning in influence. (Even though Oracle will never go away, much in the same way IBM and mainframes will never go away).

IMHO Ellison's lack of distinction between "take" & "use" is precisely the harm. The danger is how easily that becomes the Embrace & Extinguish strategy. He obviously sees no such distinction himself and imagines that he's big and powerful enough to just take whatever he wants. He sounds like a modern day warlord, and not in the good way. In my book, any individual who assumes that much power, without giving back in proportion, deserves to be shut down on general principle. How is it possible to respect one of the most eminent business leaders on Earth when he shoots his dumb mouth off in public like that? At best he reveals his inability to strategize & maintain coalitions, and at worst he reveals his sociopathic hubris. Being so mighty he would do well to learn the value of at least trying to listen to the advice of his PR viziers, and wear a false-face of humility in public, so as to not trigger indefensible public outrage. Which would lead to eventual Federal investigations—anyone as big as Oracle has a graveyard of skeletons buried in the basement.

I can forgive accidents, stupidity, and even short-term, limited corporate greed(implicit in The Game); but never when it's backed by the treacherous potential to cause long-term harm to much weaker open source allies. Linux, Java, Apache and other open source software projects are not mere pawns to be moved around the chess board upon which Oracle, Apple, Google and IBM engage in battle.

I hope the hippie idealism of open source populism hasn't been drowned in the ocean of money, but is instead still alive & kicking—Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Against_the_Wall_Motherfucke...
This is a particularly scary thing.

Evolution is warfare and this is going to be a huge problem over the next 20 years.

Seeing it on the front end, it is the elderly and chronically ill that are dying from these primarily but also providing the breading grounds for them in the developed countries.

As the population gets older and sicker we will need a breakthrough to stop a huge wave of death.

Spanish flu in the early 20th century killed more than the 1st world war apparently.
Computer science gives us a better opportunity to test ideas than, say, particle physics. The ability to experiment so easily is a major part of the appeal for many of us.

> Even the stereotypical "impractical" research algorithms
> (with efficient complexity but huge constants) are
> implemented.

Well, they're all Turing machines, but you're not going to find any video processing algorithms that were implemented on a 4K Altair so let's not go too far.

It's interesting to consider a given novel idea and wonder how far back in time it would have been possible to implement it in a practical way and how much further back in time it would have been useful simply to know how it works.

Let me pick a concrete example that we are all familiar with: Hashing. Hashing and hash lookup algorithms have been around a long time. It's an area that people might expect would have been exhausted of significant new ideas long ago. Not so! Cuckoo hashing was invented in 2001 and gives us dramatically more efficient use of memory at a slight performance cost. It can make the difference between a hash table that fits in memory and one that doesn't so it's a meaningful advance.

Cuckoo hashing could have been implemented on a 4k Altair and it would have been useful there. But no one had the idea then.

But wait-- It gets stranger! Cuckoo hashing was literally under our noses and somehow no one saw it! It is a variation of set associative hashing which is what most CPUs had already been doing in their caches for years. It's not exactly the same algorithm but if you check you'll see it's so close the distinctions are minor.

Fascinating, isn't it? Here is an important algorithm that was actually live and running in hardware yet no one considered building it in software for a long time.
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I live in Hungary. (Eastern Europe.) It is not an especially poor country, but poor compared to Western Europe and the USA. Multinational companies mostly bring here only the boring jobs. (I can understand them: they don't want to offshore their main competencies.)
I remember reading an interview with Phil Katz (pkzip) like a decade ago about how they were looking next at markov models for more advanced compression. It even made me go to the library to look up "markov".

So over a decade later, nothing really new.
The problem I can see with specially tagging types like that is that you can't compose them within classes that use GC. The determinism is viral.

You could make it an error to rely on destruction for resource release, but what stops the programmer from wrapping the resource in an object of his own making, and freeing the resource in the wrapper's destructor? Walk the stack to check if the code is called from ANY destructor?
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And why are you adding to the hysteria by asking our opinions on this?

And are you aware that the Wired article was making fun of the whole report?
Yeah, it's the first time I've seen Charles rival Yegge's verbosiveness. Good points!
Regarding your second question, I didn't see the "ridiculous" tag. The OP has been edited accordingly.
>> when they type in those kinds of queries

If I wanted to know 50 degrees Celsius + 35 Celsius degrees, I would probably omit the units and just ask for 50 + 35. I find it unlikely that many users actually run into this problem.
VAT and other tax weirdness. generally speaking, if I (based in the US) sell a product to someone in, say, japan, absent any tariffs, I don't need to pay any taxes. But, if I have a business presence in japan, I've gotta pay Japanese sales taxes on that.

It's all more complex than that... but yeah, doing business in other places usually results in tax weirdness.
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Where do you start looking? Does it depend on the project's domain? Does it matter if you're not located in the same city/time zone/country?
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I see what you mean about that being a lottery. I guess the amount of money made does have a lottery aspect. But it still seems reasonable to me that one man can generate one man's worth of value, whether employed or independent. But whether one man can generate 10... 10,000... or 10,000,000 man worths is more of a lottery.

The doesn't matter was paraphrasing a passage within a speech by Winston Churchill (which I got wrong), which ends: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Their_Finest_Hour
Terrible advice and tribalist. Your platform doesn't matter, work what you are comfortable with rather than spending months being awkward because some random guy on HN told you windows sucks.

You didn't even give a reason why OS X or Linux are better, which tells everybody you are just a zealot (and the people who upvoted you are as well).
> And then I would write her a one or two sentence email with my pitch

I am curious what kind of short email you write. The subject hints at a short pitch, but do you have a specific example?

This was the subject of the email listed in the article: “Cindy – Loved your article on Buena’s robot makers + story idea”
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This sounds like snake oil, or maybe it's just a placebo effect.

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I started Deep Thought 2010 years ago. It consisted of two geographically distributed identical units, networked by means of ether. One I put in London, another in Mecca. The former was destroyed in the Great Fire of London, 344 years ago. How many years of processing has Deep Thought finished?

2010 + 1666.

In general, yes, it is pointless to add times. But I wouldn't call it meaningless.
And it is still a simplification: If I read this correctly it is only for the UK. Try to do this for the whole EU (27 royalty collection societies) and their partly overlapping, partly distinct right systems. Good luck.
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I can imagine. I live in Poland, that's why I asked. I guess you agree that our nations have things in common: kind of stubbornness but also wild imagination. There are even some old historical sayings about it.. We seem to have completely non-transparent politicians and similar economic struggles as well. Still your country seems to have good opinion in the wild and also Budapest seems more civilized than our capital, which is important for multinational companies.
I guess the best we can do is to risk build something ourselves when the right moment comes -- read: when we have some savings for at least couple of months. If we fail we will be still considered as early adopters of tech things (because what we decide to use is usually better and more modern than so-called "industry standards") which is good for finding another job.

Since 2 years I'm switching between consulting and doing own stuff every several months - it didn't generated big income but I build few non-profit things which is also very good and gave me lots of experience. By non-profit I don't mean open source - I mean organizations or users who behave like real customers but aren't businesses. I didn't get rich but it was fun and gave me some insights for the future.

Good luck !!
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I recently went back to Windows 7 as my main workstation. So far the only negative has been that access to Steam and great games has had a slight negative effect on my productivity. What, objectively, is so much better and easier under Linux? Note, we're talking dev machine here, and not deployment server.
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I'm interested, but that website really doesn't bode well for a good-looking game. For a while there, I thought they were bringing back the original version.
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"kind of stubbornness but also wild imagination"

Yes, very true!

"I guess the best we can do is to risk build something ourselves when the right moment comes"
I agree. I hope I've learnt from my previous failures. My newest project is something quite close to pg's #22 on this list:

http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html

It is something like a very intuitive web based user interface for databases. Something like hybrid of Excel, Access and Wiki, but still different from all of them.

Thanks for the encouraging words, and also good luck to you!
How about upmodding some of the competing links from the top page or, better yet, http://news.ycombinator.com/newest ?
error messages that weren't obviously transliterated from French as an afterthought would be a nice start

Don't worry too much about this one. I am French, and the phrasing of OCaml's error messages is just as strange before the transliteration.
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eh, maybe. But you need to be /very careful/ with that. It's /very easy/ to get yourself in a whole lot of debit. I know two people who will be in debit for the rest of their lives because they were overconfident, made mistakes and weren't able to pay taxes on large amounts of money that then got pinned on them personally rather than the failing corp.

I mean, you need to be able to take some risks... but you also need to temper that with 'I might fail' because especially the first time? you probably will. Personally, my low point was around $15K that I was personally on the hook for. Considering my income potential, it's a reasonable number; I paid it off through contracting in a reasonable amount of time, and if worst came to worst, it wasn't tax debit; While I had to personally co-sign, I could have declared personal bankruptcy.

But, my point is that yeah, you need to take risk... and taking risks where the downside means you have to work for a year or two for other people if you fail seems pretty reasonable to me. Taking risks where if you fail, you will never get to try again, ever, seems like a bad idea.

So yeah; confidence is great, and you need some of it. But cover your ass because the worst case does sometimes happen. Be /especially/ careful of debits you can't get rid of through bankruptcy- e.g. don't fuck around with your taxes, get someone who knows what they are doing. The system is complex and even when you make honest mistakes, often the assumption seems to be that you were trying to cheat.

If you can learn from your failures and try again, you have a much higher lifetime chance of success than if you only have one shot.