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A mobile is a tool. It accomplishes a set of tasks for me. I don't want to be bothered with constantly worrying about my power supply in search of hypothetical benefits. I want a music player / messenger / Internet browser that I can plug into an outlet at my leisure.

Also, instant search with location / social data already works on my Motorola Droid. In fact, certain parts of it work worse on Froyo than they did on the previous release.

(Example: I used to be able to use voice search to say "Navigate to John Smith" and if I had a contact named John Smith with address information, it opened up navigation and took me there. Hopelessly broken on Froyo, and there's nowhere to submit a bug report because voice search and maps are both closed-source.)

But I guess mostly what I'm saying is that there are no hardware problems, it's all cloud data, cloud computing, and the main bottleneck is network, not CPU. Even so, the bottlenecks don't cause enough trouble that I'm willing to sacrifice battery to get rid of them.
All this hate on a college education annoys me to no end. I went to college to learn. I worked hard at getting myself a diverse education.

I took classes in CS, Geology, Philosophy, History, Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Math, Physics and some stuff I'm forgetting. Other than the CS, I directly use exactly zero of it in my career. And I use more of what I learned in my part time jobs during school than actual CS classes

Ancient Greece, Modern China or glacial striations have no bearing on my career. But maybe one day I'll travel to China or Greece, or be able to explain to a date on a hike why the exposed rock face in the valley is heavily marked while the summit is not. And I know that to raise my now 13 month old dog positive reinforcement is absolutely essential and punishment is pointless if I'm even 30 seconds late to apply it.

If you want job training go to Lincoln Tech and learn how to repair refrigeration units or fix a car.
I didn't go to college. I didn't finish highschool. All of my colleagues have and spent thousands doing so. We all make the exact same salary and have the same expectations in our workplace. I have been employed for over 7 years. I am an accomplished web developer and designer, working on small and large brands.

Where do I sit in your fallacy?
Agree. For software vendors, I think this limits usage as an alternate payment option for B2C products.
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Atheism, proselytism and other isms
"To me, there’s a fair amount of similarities between atheism, science and religion: they’re all beliefs."

Personally I can't stand atheism or religion. Why can't more people take a nihilistic approach?
Maybe I've misunderstood PayPal Pro, but ultimately don't customers leave your site for the final checkout with PayPal?
quirky narrative? i don't think that's what's getting people's attention. for me (and i'm going to guess most other people) the reason why i find it interesting is because the concept is so ridiculous! And simple.
http://www.bobparsons.me/9/how-godaddy-got-name-logo-mean.ht...

And our logo "The Go Daddy Guy" was born one night when a mom and her little girl were playing around doodling on their computer.
I'd have to see the text of Hurd's agreement to be sure, but if it is a confidentiality agreement, it might not prevent him from making decisions based on the inside information he had. My assumption when I see "confidentiality agreement" is that he is only forbidden from disclosing the information to someone else. He could, theoretically, do his job at Oracle without telling anyone anything about HP's plans.

You also mention the non-compete provision, but the article seems to imply that his agreement with HP didn't include a non-compete provision.
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Personal anecdote:

Supported a large family through work and student loans. The only job I could get was a gas station attendant and/or roofer and did both all during college. These jobs were a kind of torture for someone who took AP calculus senior year of high school.

Fast forward five years, two-internships and one mechanical engineering degree. I was now qualified for a $41k+ (13 years ago) job and started the day after graduation. Goodbye gas pumps and hot tar.

Unfortunately, most employers are too busy to bother finding out if someone is smart enough to be a great employee, so they rely on that piece of paper as your validation. However, engineering school instills a deep understanding of logic, critical thinking, organizational skills and knowledge that is very difficult to pick up by yourself.

I'll be paying $500+/month on my student loans for a looooong time, but it's THE BEST MONEY I EVER SPENT.
Perhaps someone could explain the reasoning behind the name. It doesn't seem to make much sense to me.
I run a browser based MMO that once upon a time earned a fair amount of money (not at Minecraft's astonishing levels though!) and Paypal is my only method of payment. The first time I made a large withdrawal (10s of thousands) they did something similar.

I think people are being very knee-jerk with their reactions about all of this. Yes, it's annoying to have your money frozen temporarily, but Paypal is basically on the line for all of that money if it turns out to be fraudulent. All they need is a series of business documents proving you really are who you say you are, and then they will hand over the money.

Let's face it, few people show up out of nowhere and earn a million dollars in a month!

Notch even knows this, if you read his blog post he says he's sure it'll get sorted out. Once you go through this process once they will not do it again.
> You don't get hired as a big wig in 1 month

You do. Networking is everything.

And, if he loses, Oracle and Hurd will have damages to pay. By violating his confidentiality agreement and going to work to a direct competitor (Oracle acquired Sun after all) he will cause irreparable damage to HP's business.

It's unethical for Hurd to accept the job and unethical for Oracle to offer it. I am not surprised.
Very helpful feedback. Thanks!
It shows a Firefox browser with an IE popup. I'm guessing they stitched together screen parts for their video.
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We've been going around in circles with stories like this for years. In spite of all the horror stories, people are still using PayPal. That would indicate to me that either PayPal are exploiting a monopoly position, or there is a massive gap in the market for a fast, easy payment system that doesn't treat serious customers like dirt.

I completely understand the Googley argument that you can't provide much customer service if you have millions of users with a tiny average revenue, but what sense is there in treating a €600,000 account so poorly? Surely they must know that they have lost him forever as a customer.

The only logical answer I have as to why PayPal do this to big customers is that they know that as soon as anyone gets big they leave for a cheaper merchant account, so their account freeze is just a way for them to hold on to a customer long enough to make some real money out of them. I can't believe that they would, but I'm struggling to work out why else they would act like this.
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> pretty much everything automatically updates itself via the Internet

But will the vendor care about every update from the system the program is running on? What happens if someone discovers a bug, your system is updated, but vendor a) doesn't care (or doesn't exist anymore) b) linked statically to some library?

You're left with no protection against a known vulnerability, even though the patches are available and published.
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I don't smoke but I don't like the idea of mixing substances with my productivity. That means much later down the habit if I want to be productive I might feel I need to have a substance to do it, that I can't make it on my own steam. It's what keeps me away from so called smart drugs like Provigil.
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In fact, I was wondering if someone who needs to talk out loud has a different approach of solving problems or if he has even has some shortcomings given that he is not able to keep things in his mind.
When children learn reading at school, the first step is to read loud, then to understand what they read out loud. It takes considerably more efforts until a child is able to understand a text she is reading silently.
Because the day he starts working at Oracle he will start having to answer questions and make decisions that will be based on confidential information he learned at HP. The risk of that damaging HP's business is high enough that HP feels it's necessary to sue him.
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Yes, but network bandwith (and latency) may become cheaper than local maintenance one day.
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It really does depend on your situation. At a prior employer, about three years ago, we brought on an intern as a developer who wanted to skip college. He felt he wouldn't learn anything in school and that he should go straight into working.

He was smart, but after awhile it was decided to let him go for a couple of reasons - mainly around professional behavior and maturity. He couldn't focus and management didn't plan for/have the bandwidth to really properly handle an intern in this situation. Some of us tried to help where we could, but already having to work 60+ hour weeks left little energy/time to do so.

In the years since he was let go, he has matured and is turning out some great projects and working at a company that is really happy to have him. It took time and a good amount of job hopping for him to get his sea legs.

College is just as much about learning as it is about maturing and getting out on your own. Depending on the person, some people need this and some may not.
If he makes decisions based on his confidential information and those decisions can be observed by a third party he is, in effect, revealing that information.
FOR COFFEE SHOP: They're all good, but my favorite is Bar Seis. Good wifi & in a fun location (Palermo SOHO).

CAFE CULTURE: No Argentine waiter would ever ask you to leave before you're ready. You can sit at any restaurant/cafe for HOURS. (But it never feels right to me not to keep ordering at least tea.)

SOCIALIZING: A friend of mine hosts weekly parties at his place. Email me privately and I'll intro you.

COWORKING: This seems to be the hot place: areatresworkplace.com but to me it felt like there was too much activity. (They also host parties every month where expats can meet.)

ALSO: When startups want to setup shop our outsource to BsAs, I usually into them to Chad DePue (inakanetworks.com) because he's a developer who has experience dealing with the government.
Yes, I think there are certain areas in technology were someone 18 - 20 can come up with a spectacular idea. Just didn't want to rule that out.
How is this hacker news? (Honest question. If I was sure it wasn't, I would have just flagged.)
I have collected an assortment of information on 3D printers and DIY manufacturing over the last few months.

I've started organizing that information on a wiki: http://punkmanufacturing.com/

If anyone is interesting in contributing, point me to your email address and I'll set up an account for you.
I tend to lean toward spending on Experiences rather than Possessions. That said, there are certain classes of Possession that can really make your life better if you buy the best.

Always buy the best:

- Kitchen Knives

- Development tools

- Toilet Paper

All the above can be skimped on, but they'll make you unhappy. I've spent enough of my life sawing onions in half with a squirrelly 99 cent Ginsu clone, trying to get Eclipse to autocomplete anything at all and letting roommates bring home a 60 pack of Welfare Brand Flims-E-Paper. Now that I've got two dimes to rub together, all that stuff is a thing of the past.
It's even worse than that. If you work in a large hierarchical company you can be right and be able to present your correctness in a very clear and useful way. But it is unlikely that your superior is going to allow you speak directly to his superior. That is how politics work. Which brings us back to the original article.
Why is this news? Can you please focus on business and programming instead of indirectly putting down other's Religions? Thanks.
Adobe resumes work on Flash to iOS tool
I think the take-away lesson is that there's no such thing as a bad idea, only a bad implementation. The internet is such a ludicrously big place that it seems that if you do just about anything, you'll find a market for it as long as you can explain it concisely and do it well.
I'll have to admit, this was really a bit of a TLDR for me. I've heard the arguments before (and by scanning this one it seems generally an economic argument).

I feel that it's a fair point if your sole measure of lifetime value is an economic one... unfortunately I disagree that money and Debt are the only things to measure your life by.

I found University opened my mind in ways that I don't think I could have found on my own.

It was very little things for me in terms of a way of thinking, but "correlation does not equal causation" fell upon me like a 10 megaton bomb.

That's the most significant one that I can recall but there were thousands of little things that I'd never really have tracked down on my own.

Plus the fun and friends and University girls :)

Debt is one way to measure your decision to attend University, richness of life experience is another.

Undoubtedly there are other cheaper ways to experience life... but I think University is a damned good one.

EDIT:
Arguably, there's probably quite a bit of post-hoc decision making going on in that argument as well. "I came out of uni with debt and without a job - so I would have been better off without it" does not mean "people in general are better off without university"

And so on.
If they are superior socks. (Though going barefoot is quite cheap and a nice experience, too.)
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I also stay away from those drugs for that reason. Marijuana doesn't seem to effect my productivity nearly as much as my enjoyment of the productivity.

It can be the difference for me of 'well here is some work, I better do it' to that obsessed feeling of solving a puzzle.

Certainly though, my long history with marijuana effects that difference.
After reading this.. It's all about community. If community can agree on API you can create something shareable like DLLs and it will work for all at benefit.

If community doesn't exists at all - this is not gonna work and it's better to enclose everything in your app.

I believe, community thing, in sense like it exists with open source projects, will not exists for any private software, so when you create something based on MS stack, or something which do not have open sourced codes - stick to "keep everything with app" way.

But, of course, I would like to see more opensourced software and propose opening code for the whole stack to avoid this kind of problems =)) Ah.. dreams =)
Anything that is an instrument of creativity. For me, this includes musical instruments, computers, and conventional building tools.

These things are priced all over the map. At the very low end, you get crap that ends up limiting your creativity. At the very high end, you're paying for a name or features that might be nice to have, but not having them isn't going to prevent you from going from amateur to pro if you want.

I buy the things in the middle of that spectrum. The sweet spot for musical instruments seems to be about $1000, although you can arguably get by with $500 instruments and be happy.

For computers, I buy the lowest priced one that has the features I want, usually wireless, decent graphics card, etc. Every computer produced since 2002 has had the power to do everything I need to do, minus high-definition video editing (nothing will ever be fast enough) and playing Starcraft 2. I have an $800 desktop for those two things, cheap laptops running Linux for everything else.

The best money I've spent recently was on singing lessons. Not a "thing," but finding the right instruction for something you want to do can be extremely valuable. For the rest of my life I'll be a better singer, which is great.
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It's not a question of A = B, rather it's a question how useful the differences are for your goals. I have zero desire to climb the corporate ladder. So for me, the relative value of his education vs. mine is fairly similar.

People try and Min Max life like it’s some sort of MMO where you need to beat an end game boss. I know way to many unhappy rich people to think that’s an end goal worth sacrificing your life for. And other than money, why should you care about your job’s status? If you just want to boss a lot of people around join the military you can be 30 and have 700 people under you.

PS: As to spelling that’s always been an issue for me and MIT would not have fixed the issue.
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That's just the amount that he's made since his account was frozen.
Unless the same reviewers post updates that show Flash running just fine...

http://newteevee.com/2010/09/02/is-flash-on-android-shocking...
There are exceedingly few global payment systems, almost none of which, from a consumer perspective, are as trustworthy and easy to use as PayPal: When it comes to small vendors, I'd much rather pay them through PayPal (where I can even pay from a bank account) than to give my CC numbers to some micro operation.

PayPal, like all payment processors, deals with a large amount of fraud, yet they seem to manage to keep it low enough relative to the total cash flow that their rates are fairly reasonable for small vendors.

Which is exactly why guys like this use the service in the
first place. As you mentioned, these stories seem to cycle around, yet lots of people still rely upon PayPal, and there's something to that.

Add in that every Western government is imposing strong anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing regiments on organizations like PayPal.

Seriously, people don't know how amazingly good they really have it. Having a snag in PayPal (and going through the arduous task of providing documents) is nothing.
Wow. Seems like it is time to give up on shiny Macs.
There's no such thing as a "non-compete" or an "NDA" per se; they're all just contracts with terms. It's for this reason that you need to have a lawyer you can send contracts to before signing them; you'd be surprised how often you find non-compete and IP assignment clauses in "NDA's".
Freaking awesome. Simply said, awesome.
You're right. Non-compete agreements are not allowed in California. We definitely wont be able to know until we see what the confidentiality agreement was.
Here's the Borkware NSLog replacement:

http://www.borkware.com/rants/agentm/mlog/

There are others.
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> The value of the entire Greek church is in the billions of euros, and nothing is taxed.

You know that NGOs are also not taxed?

I personally find a lot of people who are against religion who wants churches taxed. The only reason is that they have an axe to grind.

Churches (and NGOs) are by definition not wealth creators. A church elder praying or a nun giving food to the poor does not create wealth (but fulfills a whole different social function).
So, can somebody tell me why this isn't true? Or what about this misses the point?
This is all good, but if you have to go $220k in debt to learn about stuff, that's ridiculous.

There are ways to learn and grow outside of academia, and until the costs become reasonable again, I don't pooh-pooh anyone who decides to learn about Modern China by traveling to China for a year instead of taking the class.
I believe the name is in reference to Ian Murdock's Project Indiana.
It works for buyers as long as you have an international card. But to register as a seller a US bank account is a must. Given the new features added to Checkout By Amazon and all the Paypal stories, they might get traction if they remove that "US only" tag. Not sure how easy it is though.
I think $5 for a fresh perspective on a potential logo is good value for the money, so long as you retain rights to the final design (not something mentioned in the FAQ).

I've got a web site/service in the back of my mind, and while I have a conceptual idea of the basic logo, my drawing skills suck worse than my web design skills (which suck considerably, let me tell you), so $5, which I might otherwise spend on energy drinks today, could yield a decent logo concept.

I think the dude deserves the $5 for the simple entertainment value of the site and logos. Some are downright clever!

My big question is, for the uninitiated like myself, what does good professional logo design cost these days? Knowing that would give a good perspective on the value of this $5 service.
But at the end of the day, it, just like horoscopes, is preying on the stupid.

Okay, I take issue with that. It actually pisses me off. Unlike horoscopes you are not led to think you'll receive something which is not actually delivered. This is a legitimate product which delivers fully on what is sold. Enjoying a positive, potentially humorous daily event does not make people like "Holly" or "Logan" from the sample phone calls "stupid". In fact, I myself have considered signing up for it. I just haven't went through with it. Not many would think I'm stupid.

I actually had an idea somewhat similar to this. It was to send a randomly timed, positive email out to a list of participants. The email wasn't to say the participant was awesome; it was just to say something positive, as opposed to being work related email, or spam messages sitting in their inbox, just something to brighten their day. I never figured out what content to put in the email, but I now bequeath that idea to AwesomenessReminders to add to their service as they see fit, because their version and implementation of positive messages is really good (and obviously selling).

True entrepreneurs know the value of motivation and encouragement. Success usually doesn't come overnight, and because entrepreneurship is a road less traveled it can be an emotionally lonely one, even with loving friends and family, because they don't really appreciate, or understand what you're trying to do. This is why tricks like posting up motivational quotes, or pictures of nice things to buy often help entrepreneurs keep slugging away. It can be tough to manufacture the consistent optimism and positive energy needed to continue down a road of setbacks, disappointments, and obstacles which can drag on for months and years. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only converted or transferred. If you believe this fundamental law of science then you might possibly see the value of receiving a positive, energetic message, in a world where positivity in general is quite scarce (just turn on the news). There is nothing stupid about this; in fact, it makes perfect sense. Besides, it's lighthearted and fun.
He could have easily balanced the two. If Oracle offered to beat the amount and pay legal fees, he could easily go to Oracle. I don't think he simply decided to break the agreement without considering things.
It sounds like they screwed you too, and your defending them?

It sound suspiciously like they just want to keep the money for as long as possible. Collecting interest on your assets is a clear profit motive.