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I think there are plenty of incentives for hackers to come to NYC but it's mainly from the finance sector. Wall St firms wining and dining their hire prospects is common practice. Matt's recommendation is to show that the startup community can entice hackers in its own way. Startups might not be able to pay the salary + bonus that finance firms can throw at you, but perhaps they can gain influence in other ways.
well, it works perfectly if what you want is steal an election...
I would like the ability to note certain profiles of people for future review. Much like upvoting a story saves it for me, I would like to be able to do the same with a person's profile. Call it a "watch this person" feature or something.
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Yeah. I've worked at a company where I was middling employee 250 but had the same number of options as important employee 8 simply because I was bros with the founder. I think hackers think the non-technical side of the business is going to be merit based and "fair" but that's generally not the case in my experience.
Apple App Store stats: The power of "Free" & The Dutch really do "Go Dutch"
I've only heard of him from his comments on rjlipton's blog posts about the claimed P != NP proof, but from just that it's clear that he's a good communicator on top of being a math genius.
What an interesting thought, and one that only crossed my mind for a moment: What if this free-to-paid transition becomes a _tactic_? Given the traction 'free' affords, could there be a business model in switching business models?
Or maybe I do have a child and have figured out that you don't actually have to send them to private school, pay for their college (my parents didn't for me), buy them a new car for their 16th birthday, etc.
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I don't see a future where they have over 20% of the market. I'd be surprised if it ends up being significantly over 10% actually. iPhone's market share growth has halted and Android is growing leaps and bounds. I think Apple is OK with this too, they can make plenty of money taking the top 10% of the market just like they do with computers.
We're more concerned about electronic voting because it lowers the effort and manpower needed to defraud immensely.
> he was right

No, he wasn't. Maybe he was if you qualify that with "in the US", but the US is not the center of the world.
The stable version of Chrome leaks memory like crazy on Linux. I was frequently using over 1gb according to about:memory and have seen it use up to 3gb. 6.0.495.0 dev seems to be better about it.
this is my favorite ff addon,

and apple may be evil, but if they products are the best, the market will buy them, no matter what
"I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing." - Ken Thompson (author of grep)

(That was a while ago. Apparently he now uses sam)
Agree, except the single family home.

Because the quality of life in US apartment buildings is appalling.
I don't want to hear every step that my upstairs neighbors take. I don't need to know when they go to the restroom in the middle of the night. I don't need my downstairs neighbor ask me not to walk after 10pm.

This is ridiculous. I'll live in a US apartment once the sound insulation issue is resolved (hint to US architects: It was solved by 1930 in the rest of the world).
These are indeed things that product managers do. However, in a software startup, the product manager's portfolio is the founder's portfolio; in other words: you'd better be a good product manager (or be ready to become one).

Read Steve Blank and Eric Ries. Don't think about hiring someone into this role until you've done it successfully for your company first.
A good point that I'd thought but not expressed! Who says any one startup experience will be your only one? If you like startups and the kind of people they attract, you'll want to spend some time in those kind of environments. It's not wham-bam-thank-you-startup.
I like the name as it is. Blurrypeople is great, imho.

The idea is great as well. It might even be nice to allow the users to control the unblurring as they feel more comfortable.
Pot, kettle, black
Facebook and Twitter and others are doing it, so the technology must be out there.
I've heard the same argument about making interest-free loans to the US government so you can get a refund later. I don't buy it there, either.
(5) Some VP at Intel wants to be a big man on Wall St and get his pic in the WSJ.

He finds a strategic acquisition candidate that doesn't upset the regulators (unlike say buying Arm or Nokia)

He spends a bunch of other peoples money on it, he skips to a new job before the whole sorry mess collapses around him.
Exactly. I've known very few companies (of size) where the history/cache/whatever of your local browser is of any importance. It's all logged and analyzed at the border.
It was more of a rhetorical device. It's not that I can't imagine how to blow through tens of thousands of dollars a month. It's that that lifestyle just isn't appealing to me.
I'm a big fan of this book. It's one of the rare technical books that is so well-written that it's a great read regardless of whether or not you're actually trying to use the technology.
And good hackers are desperate to find good startups. Why does this have to be such a hard problem?
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Running OS X, actually, since he was talking about working on Hex Fiend. I imagine that would offend you even more?
Every time I read an article about some founder saying that some other company's technology is going to "Change Everything" I think back to the Segway, and all of the big names talking about how this was going to change the world, and how all cities will be rebuilt to accomodate it .. Still waiting for that paradigm shift.
"We already trust polling place workers with paper ballots, the possibility for fraud already exists."

I don't know about the US, but here in Germany _anyone_ can watch the whole process including the counting of the votes.

So it is possible for me to check up on my polling place.

With the current paper ballot system you need a lot of people to cheat significantly. With voting computers you need only a really tiny number of people to steal an election.
Same exact thing in Opera. Private browsing is per-tab, cookies are separate per private tab (so multiple accounts into gmail is okay). You can open private tabs right next to regular, they don't live in another window (as Chrome enforces).
Completely agree with you about the trash talk... but don't put the Mac vs. PC ads in the same basket!

a) They are ads: they are not making a prediction, just trying to explain the advantages of mac vs. pc (obviously ignoring the disadvantages, but that's ads.)

b) Talking of features and how they affect the user is a lot more concrete than "Apple will go to 20-30% market share, because they are not open". Why not 10% then? Why not 50%? If he came up with a quantitative number (and with an interval at that) then I imagine he can explain a bit more.

And "closed" is not the bane of the world. Windows is closed and it goes strong. So are many other software. I do believe he may very well be correct, but he should have explained a bit better _why_ that matters.

Incidentally as I said I do believe Apple trash talks just as much as the next guy. Just check all those old SJ presentations!
15% tax on $4M is only if you live in a state with no capital gains tax. In California it would be 15% + 9.3% = 24.3% - this makes a big difference.

State by state rates as of a few years ago: http://www.thereibrain.com/realestate-blog/2007/10/capital-g...

Luckily, my take from the Kongregate sale was enough to be real FYM (though I enjoy running the site enough to want to keep doing it for a long time anyway).
Hope they have the funding to speed up the process. This is really encouraging...
I'm really not sure about the iPhone and the iPad being comparable products. The iPad (and other tablets) needs apps. Without apps, it's a very expensive web browser. Yet, as much as the tech world has complained about the closed nature of the App STore, we are still seeing most of app innovation occuring in Apple's marketplace.

Just to clarify that last statement, it is true that there are a few small classes of applications that Apple's terms and conditions make impossible to implement on an iOS device. But in my opinion, these types of apps make up only about 10% of all possible apps (I just made that number up, but call it an educated guess based on a test I tried out about a year ago, where I sat down and tossed out a bunch of ideas for apps - about 90% were acceptable to App Store rules), and for the rest of the market, we constantly see apps first on the Apps Store and only afterwards do we see them in the Google Marketplace, if at all.
I'm not seeing any signs of that trend changing, which means that Apple is going to remain software king-of-the-hill for quite some time, and that does not auger well for the success of Android tablets.
Also for more severe rewriting of the history check out "git rebase -i <base commit>". You'll be shown a list of commits between the base commit and the HEAD in your editor. From here you can rearrange and delete commits, and mark them for editing and squashing.

I use this all the time for cleaning up topic branches before I push them out.
Very encouraging especially for the late night orgies!
well the car doesn't really need to be 30 years old.

sure if you buy some unreliable piece of crap...but there are plenty of fast cars that only require regular oil changes to keep in shape.

granted there are different definitions of fast, some people are fine with 14 second cars, others need 12s...and others don't consider anything fast that doesn't run 10s.

But overall, $10K is plenty to get yourself a reliable 6-7 year old car that's quick/fast.
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Yeah, I think you are probably right (though maybe not quite on the prices).

But remember when the iPad was still "secret"? How everyone thought it was going to cost 1000$ and it was going to be trashed by Android/Windows tablet at 500$? Apple has priced it a lot more competitively then they used to do. I wonder how much room will give the competition to undercut them on price.
Fast, fun cars are emphatically middle class these days. The Subaru Impreza WRX is $25k new, for example. A millionaire who started collecting fast bargainmobiles would be killed by garaging and insurance, not maintenance.
Thanks for downvoting...here's more info:

When we say we are sure about a certain fact, for example, we may well be right only half the time.

To see how it works, try this little quiz: Give two estimates of the diameter of the moon in miles -- a high and a low one, so that there is about a 10 percent chance that the moon is bigger than the upper estimate and a 10 percent chance that it is smaller than the lower one.

I know that the circumference of the Earth is about 25000 miles, and I know that circumference is pi * diameter, which makes the diameter of Earth about 8000 miles. I also know that the moon is about 1/4th the size of Earth, so I guessed 2000-2500 miles for its diameter.

The correct answer is 2160, so I didn't see the merit in continuing to read an article about how people get overconfident when forecasting.
The difference here was 5-figures for the technical types who'd been there for years vs 7-figures or more for business types who'd been there for months. If nothing else it was a real eye opener into how the world really worked. Not that I'd had any illusions that I was going to retire there and then, mind. But still.

I believe they were "bros" with the VCs rather than the founders, tho'. The founders didn't do too badly but today, they aren't retired either...
They don't need to close the source, just figure out some way to indicate to buyers that if they buy an Android phone, they're guaranteed to have a certain experience.
You surrender a lot of your rights when you join the military, why should the police force be any different? We arm and train them in practically the same manner.
I'm on the West Coast looking for startup gigs in NYC and haven't seen that many listed. Who needs people?
The iMac Touch: unifying OS X and iOS?
The bicycle?
Well, if history (iPod) repeats itself, I am thinking Apple will do ok.
Dude, we get it. You're a libertarian. It's very exciting that you've figured absolutely everything out and can offer a ridiculously simple solution that civilizations for the last ten thousand years have somehow overlooked. It's just too bad that there are shadowy conspiracies aligned against you and other libertarians, and that people are so ignorant and brainwashed that they can't see how effective your exceedingly simplistic recommendations would be if only we could all agree to make vast sweeping changes to how our governments work.

Sorry for the bile, but wow is this ideology, and it's increasing presence on this site, getting tedious to me.

These ideas are not new. They are not as brilliant as you think, and in fact are a sign of intellectual immaturity - a stage that you grow out of once you start to realize how irreducibly complex the actual world is.

Or maybe I'm wrong, and you have figured it all out. Luckily for you we have a system that's perfect for people who know for certain how the economy will behave. Let me know when you've made your billions shorting the US economy. A great way to get past believing in simplistic ideologies is to start putting your money where your mouth is.
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or this isnt reddit
If the past is a guide to the future, then the lifestyle we currently define as "upper-middle class" will be redefined as "poverty" and will be available to virtually everyone, including people who can't even be bothered to find a job.

For many reasons I doubt that the last few hundred years are going to tell us much about the next hundred. So many critical trends are following exponential curves that can't continue on indefinitely.
Half a century ago, literacy tests and trick questions were widely used to keep blacks from voting. That's why it's illegal to do so now.
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Are you always this annoying?
While I completely agree with you (I am European) I think Apple is pretty US centric (as is Google). When Jobs said that the iPhone was only available in the USA, and most of its audience was probably american too.

So yeah, I think he was talking about the USA. He either didn't know about the rest of the world, or he didn't care about it.
No idea why you were at -1; your comment was informative and on topic.

On a side note, I also tend to play that "game" when stuck in slow home-from-holiday traffic over the mountains. Changing speeds all the time while driving manual is such a pain.
Haven't had a chance to read through the article yet, but here it is via ScienceDirect for all those interested: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.virol.2010.06.015

You'll need a subscription to Virology to view it or institutional access though.
It could have a compartment for beef jerky.
Or for a young sub-Saharan girl raped by a man who believes that sex with a virgin will cure him.
This strikes me as a pretty contradictory position: why users but not mobile providers? The Apache license doesn't make that distinction, and as such, I fail to see why Google should.
Great! Now, I'm a salesman, and I'm trying to plan a trip. I need to find the shortest route to visit each city...
BTW here is a quick & dirty example of Io laziness and shows what can be done without forward (did-not-understand/method_missing/__getattr__/AUTOLOAD):

Hash := Object clone do (
with := method (
hash := Map clone
call message arguments foreach (arg,
# arg = k(v) for eg. t(0)
k := arg name
v := arg argAt(0) asString
hash atPut (k, doString (v))
)
hash
)
)

h := Hash with (t(0), f(1+1), with("hello"), writeln("not writeln!"))
h2 := Hash with (t(100), f("hello" asUppercase), at("my at"), atPut("my atPut"))

Above lazily goes through the Hash with() building the key/value pairs without ever running methods/functions with, writeln, at, atPut and simply takes the method/func name and evaluates its argument into a key/value pair:

h at ("writeln") println # => "not writeln!"
h at ("f") println # => 2
h2 at ("f") println # => "HELLO"

This is the reflection alternative the author is referring to in his post.
no. blogs are not a substitute for documentation.

ruby has been suffering this for too long.

blogs have several problems:

- they don't get updated
- they don't get patched
- they don't ship with the software
- they break when the user dies / moves / leaves / changes software
- they have a lower signal to noise ratio
did you even read the article?

this article is about CFO's inability to estimate their own forecasting abilities. your comment is totally irrelevant.
It's easy to talk, harder to release stuff. Hundreds of interesting tablet ideas have been "announced" over the last year, most of which haven't been released. No matter what Apple gets wrong, one thing stands: they actually ship products they announce.
I don't really get people using git commit -m. I never do that. I always use just git commit and write my commit messages in vim that opens up in the same terminal.

First of all, it allows you to easily write extended commit messages (just leave the second line blank and start writing the extended message on the third line). A good idea would be to leave (#more) anchor at the end of the first line, so that others would know there's actually some more info they might want to read.

Then you can always see the files currently being committed while you're in the editor, that's convenient. Last but not least - it helps me take my commit messages seriously.
This seems like a much more balanced, nuance view of the scenario-- note that it is vastly different from "Android is closed because its open" tone present in the article-- or the insistence by some (see comment below) that providers not have access to the Android source.

EDIT: Some clarification and grammatical fixes.
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Score! Conversation over.
To play with the numbers yourself, File->Make a Copy.

My personal numbers: I upped cap gains to 30% since apparently that's coming. If I get a $4M check when I'm 20, I get $2.8M after taxes. At a $100k burn rate (leaving the investment yield and inflation at 5% and 3% respectively), I'm set 'til I'm 68.

I'm pretty happy with that. That gives me 48 years to angel invest, do another startup, marry someone who works and cuts my burn rate, etc.
There's little that's specific to startups here. What he's arguing is that being independently wealthy doesn't work the way one might naively think. But few things do work the way one might naively think.

Certainly his title is false though. Obviously it depends how much you clear.
Finally. I've been saying something similar to this for ages: all these people squawking about Twitter are typically doing it wrong. It can be used for one-way, one-to-many communication like that, but it shouldn't be. The people (and companies!) who are using it most successfully are using it as a way to actually engage people, talk to them, interact with their tastes and network, form relationships beyond the join record in the database.
I actually made it faster using the drawable as a circular buffer, details here http://audidude.com/?p=470

Quick cpu comparison http://x.dronelabs.com/chris/dropbox/smoothie.png
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I was only looking at the past 40 years, much like the original poster. My edit clarifies this point.
Why buses? Are the trains not working today?
Fair enough: from a marketing point of view what he said sure sounds a lot better than "this is the first phone in the US that's not ...".
The future of the Company and the Uncorporation
OTOH, Apple is not following the same playbook. They haven't introduced the iPad Nano or the iPhone Shuffle.
getting an nginx bad gateway message :(
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I don't get the city competition, but maybe that's because I didn't grow up in my city (Philadelphia) and I was never a recognized member of my previous small-town community (for various reasons, none important). Who cares if your city is the "Silicon Valley of the East Coast"? Suddenly that means tech isn't going on in all the other East Coast cities? You show me even a small town that doesn't have at least 5 different tech companies.

Why does a particular city need a "startup scene"? How is having NYC known as a place that tech companies like to call home, versus tech companies just going about their business without drawing attention to the fact that they are in NYC because it doesn't mean anything to the 90% of their customers who don't live there, going to do anything for NYC? Attract more businesses for more tax revenue? Then why would the type of business matter at all?

Reversing that question, why does any startup need a particular city? What does it matter that DuckDuckGo is in Valley Forge, PA (even though everyone says Philly, because Valley Forge is toootally inside Philadelphia city limits when it's down the Turnpike past even King of Prussia. Might as well say New Ark, DE is in Philly)? It's still a decent upstart search engine, and would be the same decent site if it were in Bethesda, MD (where people would probably say it was in DC).

If the price is right, you can find talent anywhere (cities don't have a monopoly on growing smart people out of test tubes), and if the biz is right you can find funding anywhere (or would an investor seriously give up a good opportunity just because the company's HQ is more than a lunch-hour drive away?). None of these things have particular geographical components, unless you're in some dead-end, old, mining enclave on the side of a mountain in up-state Pennsylvania. Or maybe not, maybe you got so good of a deal on land that you don't mind the capital cost of getting started from stone-age-scratch.

But at any rate, it means nothing to me if, say, Orlando, FL has more tech firms than Philly. That's them, not me. Where they are certainly has to have no more impact on me than if they lived next door to me.
The Startup Ethos
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Wow, the story should actually be that a journalist manages to create a 300 odd word story out of a 90 word article. That's a lot of hand waving for no real substance.

Original story:

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/NewsSearch.asp?DocID=PB000...

A hell of a lot has probably been lost in translation here.
They don't need to write it like that in the licence for it to be so in practice. A big help for example would have been to say that nobody can remove any rights that he has himself experience. So if it started open, it has to stay open. Mobile providers can modify it all they want but they can't actually control it then.

Sure, you can get root privileges and do it anyway, but they've tried to make it very hard and they'll probably continue. For geeks maybe that's not a problem, for the average person it is.
Hmmm...

I hang around with two distinct groups of people a lot: grad student types with essentially no money and young professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc) with nice, solid salaries. From my experience, it's much easier to not spend money when I hang out with the first group, because they have no expectation of spending a lot of money. On the other hand, you'd feel out of place with the other group if you don't spend some higher base level for doing "normal" things like going out to eat, trip to Vegas, whatever.

I assume this scales if you are just the millionaire and you hang out with multimillionaires.