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Its just awesome to see people randomly offer to help.
Speaks volumes of the people here !

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Yes, it is always inaction. It's easy to justify choices, but never easy to justify indecision.
Of note: Notch seems to be a regular in the LD48 (http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/) competitions. (http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/notch/)

I'm, um, an irregular. (Entered twice, finished once.)

Here's his screen-capture timelapse for the last one, which was a bit over a month ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629810
I applaud the motivation, but the United States public school system is as dysfunctional as your average third world government. Pouring more money into this broken system simply does not help.

As an example, consider the Washington D.C. public school system, which spends more per capita than almost any other city in the nation, yet consistently scores among the lowest in all performance metrics. There is something wrong with the existing culture of American public education. Introducing more funding might temporarily alleviate some of the symptoms, but it cannot cure the underlying disease.

A $100 million dollar fund to found charter schools in the Newark area would most likely be more effective, and would certainly be more interesting.
He bought Pixar, and founded Next, from the money he made at Apple.

Next was actually acquired on a down valuation--according to Wikipedia, Canon's investment gave them a $600 million valuation in 1989, whereas they were acquired by Apple for $429 million in 1996.
Wow, random. Would love to hear from someone on the economics of this.

Where does the money come from ? Facebook's taxes that would otherwise have been paid to the government ?
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I respect your expertise, but this estimate seem at odds with the mainstream reporting on the difficulty of building it. Can you elaborate why you think this could be a low 6-figure job? It seems to have used more than one 0day, for example.
How was that person deluded when they ultimately reached their goal? Isn't that the opposite of deluded? They simply didn't give up, and they have their high confidence to thank for keeping them motivated.
I've heard that the retirement plans are better -- I don't know the details of that. The health insurance at Microsoft is much better. All Microsoft employees have private offices (I love that, this is a "Big Deal"(TM)). I haven't heard if Google has anything equivalent to Microsoft Prime.
This is a pretty cynical take on things. Newark has improved considerably over the last decade and hopefully things like this will speed up the process.

The Ironbound district is coming along nicely, with restaurants and art galleries popping up around large corporate offices, many escaping nyc's high rent. I'd recommend visiting if you haven't been recently.

And yes, a lot of work is still necessary. It doesn't mean we should give up on it. If anything, I'd argue we should pay more attention to it if things are as bad as you think they are.
As far as practical things to take away from this, I particularly like this quote:

And that clarity was so valuable whereas today it’s like, Ok, we want to go build an app. Even a new product that we launch. We’re working on Questions, and it’s like OK. So we build Questions for the web, then we build the “m” site for Questions, then we build the Touch HTML5 version of questions. Then we build the iPhone version of Questions, and then the Android version, and then maybe.. (Elliot Schrage: iPad…) Right, the iPad stuff. And then we don’t work on a RIM version and then a bunch of people are pissed because it’s not available on their phone.

It’s kind of a disaster right now.
Seriously. Now I'm curious. Salary and bonuses? SecondMarket?
samy is simply one of the brightest minds in our field, period.
you both bring up very valid points. thanks for educating me!
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Either he's sold off quite a bit in the secondary market, or this donation represents almost all of his liquid assets.
Well, chrome has decided "www." is implied. I am reserving judgment about this, but in all modern browsers you can ignore the www. Honestly, without the "www." you have a much stronger chance to define your brand. Which do you remember better? "www.iamawesome.com" versus "iamawesome.com"?
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I don't feel like those two are mutually exclusive. Nor that $100M could be all his liquid assets—if he does indeed have $100M to donate, then chances are good that he has more.
I think I read a pg comment sometime that all moderators wouldn't show up in that list (even if their karma would place them).
Stuxnet (according to some) looks like it was built to attack Iran's nuclear reactor computers. Israel has a vested interested in stopping Iran's nuclear program. Israel has the technical knowhow to design Stuxnet. Not being directly linked to the Stuxnet-as-attack thing is also in Israel's interest.

It's pretty simple, if we go with the idea that Stuxnet was built to attack the nuclear program, then the circumstantial evidence points to Israel. Motive, Means, Opportunity.
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This is a district with 40,500 students in K-12, spending $27,961 per student[1]. Compare that "free" education to the cost of tuition of any of the private schools in Newark. A quick googling revealed rates varying from $4000 to $17,000.

This contribution amounts to about $2,500 per student, an amount that very well might make the difference in allowing a family to afford to send their kid to a school that isn't at the bottom of the barrel[2]. It'd make even more of a beneficial difference if it was apportioned based on actual need.

[1] http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/districtsearch/district_detail.asp?Se...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark_Public_Schools
When I told a friend I was giving up on Rails and explained why, he also recommended learning Ruby alone. I didn't understand why until he explained " the caller doesn't have to use curly braces to signify a hash if the hash is the last argument in the call. For methods that only take a single hash as an argument, this is pretty easy to understand. "

This resolved a huge issue I was having with my Ruby, but I find this to be a really poor way to write a language. Maybe it will just take more getting used to.

We hear people say that English is so difficult to learn because of these 'rules and exceptions', so maybe I just need to get that mentality and realize that just because something worked in one instance, it won't in another.

I will spend more time focusing on learning Ruby. i was always thinking the problems I was having was due to rails.
Is it on iTunes or Hulu? I can't seem to find it, don't have Netflix.
what... why? how?

they got a bunch of negative publicity that proves they are immature and untrustworthy
Here's something that illustrates the sort of thing you can do in this game: a 12x5 LED display built in-game[1]. Reminded me of the Dwarf Fortress Computer[2].

[1] http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=24213

[2] http://www.geekosystem.com/dwarf-fortress-turing-machine-com...
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Perhaps the commenter is too busy playing the game to explain. Or eat.
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"Vietnamese students with a fraction of the educational budget"

I agree with you that pouring more money doesn't mean thing will get better, but costs are different for people living in America vs Vietnam. This is an unfair and dishonest comparison.
I'm almost 38 and had my first child not too long ago. Sometimes I surprise myself at feeling tempted to chase the illusion of "stability" at a bigger company. Then I remind myself of all my friends who have been through terrible layoffs and remember that there almost never is such a thing as stability nowadays.

I think a lot of people get the same feeling I do for the same reasons, but then forget the whole "remind yourself" part.
Maybe, but Job's still doesn't get paid a wage if I recall correctly meaning he wouldn't be overly liquid unless he has cashed in a fair amount over time.
"Mr. Zuckerberg is setting up a foundation with $100 million of Facebook stock to be used to improve education in America, with the primary goal of helping Newark."

From the WSJ article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870386010457550...
Jobs spent the last few months doing it because he felt like it. That's a bit bigger than saying it.
If that is all you are after, Magento is not worth the tradeoff - it is supremely robust but its code and database schema is just too complex to let you do simple things easily.

You could try Open Cart, it's quite a modern PHP cart with paypal etc built in.
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One of the four "zero days" it's alleged to have targeted was disclosed last year. Two of the others are privilege escalation bugs, which probably aren't worth tens of thousands of dollars. You can probably buy real clientsides in IE or a popular plugin for far less than six figures.
That's $100 million in Facebook damage control, I'd say.
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Founding charter schools is only part of the solution. You still have to get parents to send their kids to the schools, and you have to get the kids to want to go, and those are tough hurdles to overcome in a place like Newark.

Like it or not, the public school system is what many kids in Newark are stuck with, and it's hard to see how something like this will not help considerably.

And I'm not sure if I agree with your blanket statement re: our public school system, as much of it is functioning just fine. Parts of it are broken and corrupt, yes, but I don't think I'd go as far as comparing them to third world governments.
The thing is though that in the U.S. the research has shown that increased spending doesn't mean improved outcomes, whereas in other countries this isn't necessarily true. I'm all for improving outcomes in schooling, but if you want to do that by putting money into it then you have to do so in a country where more money buys better outcomes, and that isn't the case here.
What if a major funding event had fallen through

Then that begs the question: did the company misrepresent its funding status? Perhaps the OP didn't ask but it sounds like he did his research. It's always good to ask these questions:

- How much locked-in funding do you have?

- How long can the company go on at the current burn rate?

- What is the current projected point where the company's revenues will grow to match expenses?

I have no idea whether the OP asked some/all of those nor whether or not the company misrepresented its funding status.
Sorry, no - his immigration situation is the priority, and if it turns out that he can collect damages (insufficient data to say), they would include the cost of the immigration lawyer.
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I think it is inaccurate when it says "sales grew to over 6,000 a day during this period." The sales when the Paypal account was locked HAD to have been ~$44k/day (or around 4,700 sales per day after taking fees imposed into consideration) as he said he had around $800,000 (USD) on September 10th (starting around the week of August 22nd).
How many grid operators do you think there are in the middle east? What's your evidence that they were targeting Iran's?

There is equally compelling evidence that this worm came with a ransom demand. And that's a more plausible story.
How did you meet clients on Craigslist? Just looking at the "Gigs" section, or did you do something else?
Well said and exactly the message I hope to spread with this. At the end of the day accessibility means accessible to all.
I think that almost everyone is slightly deluded.

The natural state of mind of healthy (i.e. not clinically depressed) people is to default to think that they are important and good at what they do. So you get things like 70% of drivers saying that they drive better than average. (And I saw a psychologist post somewhere online claiming that they had asked 500 people how good they were in bed, and exactly one person out of the 500 thought they were below average.)

At the level of subjective reality "I'm important" is obviously true in general, as you are presumably the most important person in your own life.

At the level of objective reality you have things like "you are one random individual among 8 billion, all of you living on a small rock on the outer edges of an insignificant galaxy, and the lifetime of the entire human species is hardly a blink of the eye in the timeframe of the Earth".

Although objective truth has the advantage of being objective, it is also somewhat depressing.

Terry Pratchett (of the Discworld series) has the concept of "knurd" ("drunk" spelled backwards). The idea is that people normally look at the world through rose-tinted glasses as if they were slightly drunk, being "knurd" is the state of being hyper-sober, stripped of all comforting illusions and seeing the world in all its harsh reality.

I certainly believe that this story is fairly close to being true, although I have no scientific studies to back it up :)

Although most people are slightly delusional, it may be more visible in people that are successful somehow somewhere, since they have an external story to collaborate the internal story: "I feel important, and this proves that I actually am important".

We also have hubris as one of the three virtues of a programmer ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Virtues_of_a_program... ), I have no reason to think that this is less true for entrepreneurs in general.

In short, I think a moderate amount of delusion is quite healthy, and possibly even essential :)
The worst case scenarios for c02 emissions are so full of unknown and unknowable variables they are barely more useful than SETI work. They're also over a timeframe beyond everyone here's lifetime. The models have a lot of assumptions in them, and cover variations of the order of 3-400%. It's just not useful information, apart from selling magazines and newspapers. You cannot do anything with vague forecasts from c02 research, apart from scare people.

Conversely, we know exactly what happens when you breathe too many particulates. We know how to fix the problem. You don't even need to redistribute income globally to do anything about it.

Cigarette smoke is literally a drop in the ocean from large scale emissions like diesel engines, coal stacks, car exhausts and the like.

Clean air and water is priority no 1 for all humans. You don't need food until the first two are taken care of.
+1

A rescinded job offer is a big deal, particularly given the guy's immigration status. I assume this was discussed and that he'd need to transfer his H1B. The company by then would've known he had handed in his notice and any HR person should know this potentially triggers immigration issues.

Name them and shame them I say.

Like you say, this may indicate the company is in trouble financially so any existing employees and potential applicants should be aware of this.
Hard to believe he is only 26.
The price is very reasonable $8/month, the quality of streaming to my PS3 is excellent (and I only have a modest internet connection).

Unfortunately the selection is pretty limited. Awful, actually. CTV own the right to a lot of popular shows, such as The Big Bang Theory, and they're not letting go.
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Can someone explain the appeal? I normally enjoy indie games with low-end graphics like Dwarf Fortress or Adom.

My first impression as I logged into a server was a giant landscape of multicolored blocks devoid of any meaning whatsoever. There was no survival horror element I could make out in 30 minutes of playing.

I decided to try building something only to be bored of drawing something block by block, like being a pixel artist that had to waste 10 seconds every time you wanted to zoom out. Then I tried following someone around who was also not doing anything interesting. I attempted to dig a bottomless pit under him until he presumably logged off, and at that point I also logged off due to boredom.
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Good point. There are founders that have valuable inside knowledge of their industry (domain expertise, etc) who can be more reasonably sure of their success in some B2B venture than a YCombinator project that wants to be the next Twitter. Can we say that if both examples are equally confident of their success, that the former is less deluded than the latter?
I think that almost everyone is slightly deluded.

I think most folks are extremely deluded -- which is why the slightly deluded ones do so well.
Of course we don't. Being able to pay people is very good for recruiting, is my point.
If privacy is dead as has been asserted there are no longer any effective countermeasures.
"Up to 1000 servers per week" could simply mean that, there was this one week where they added 1000 servers. I'm pretty sure it's spin. We don't know what they're adding on average each week.
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All right, so i am currently in the idea stages of the start up still in the midst of learning what Customer Development is and all that jazz. I am also a student at a university, and I'm planning on looking for a CTO/Co-founder at the university as well.

So my question to everyone is; as a student what should I look for in a CTO in regards to education, more specifically should I look at people in Software Engineering, Computer Science or Computer Engineering?

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Isn't that no-strings angel funding predicated on the idea that there's going to be either a round of financing or an exit?

I have no problems with angel funding (I'm really not all that familiar with it; no company I've been involved with has taken "angel money"), but I do have concerns about any company model that puts first-time founders on a burn-rate runway. There are less perilous ways to build a business.
I don't want to out the company publicly. I'd rather not burn bridges. I just don't want to get into any more mess than has already been created.
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You think everyone who's ever had a "fuck you money" exit put 100% focus into their company?

I don't care to argue about DHH's position at 37signals. He's the one who said he built Basecamp as a part-time project. He has me at "custom Zonda supercar".
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Basically the game is a really enjoyable way of spending hours and hours collecting resources and using them to create giant buildings and structures. It's a lot of fun but you're still sinking a huge amount of time on it. Sure, I had fun building that 30x30x30 (one unit is maybe 4 feet) castle but why did I spend 20 hours working on it over the weekend?
Not to be judgemental, but perhaps you should ask yourself whether you'll be happy with (and able to perform the duties of) a job that you crammed for to pass the interview loop. Sounds like you may end up getting in over your head.

That being said, internalizing the following is a good place to start:

basic tree (or more generally graph) algorithms and structures

sort algorithms

recursion

principles of OOP

probability

memory manipulation

stack/heap principles

There's a bunch more, but that sort of stuff comes up often in interviews. The main point, however, is that you need to internalize it. Just reading about it, you won't be able to really apply it in a high pressure situation like an interview loop.

Good luck!
Multiplayer is just a free for all, endless world sort of thing. In the single player portion of the game you build by day and are attacked by the undead at night.
In case you're really as bitter as you sound, this is because a large number of those teachers spend their personal income on classroom supplies and decorations to improve the lives of their students.

They feel like they are doing a net good for society by basically donating their free time and their money to our public education system.
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That's the difference between circumstantial evidence and direct evidence:

On its own, it is the nature of circumstantial evidence for more than one explanation to still be possible. Inference from one piece of circumstantial evidence may not guarantee accuracy.
(from wikipedia)

If there was direct evidence, this would be a different discussion entirely.

Oh, and as for 'why Iran?', that's from: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1712296
The Apple board has consistently granted him options, but he never exercises them (except for a couple grants in 1998-1999 that brought his company ownership to SEC-required levels for the CEO position). He has given up billions of dollars by simply letting his options expire.

Apple's SEC filings are generally interesting, if you're ever incredibly bored.
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In my area, looking at http://raleigh.craigslist.org/sof/ and http://raleigh.craigslist.org/web/ and http://raleigh.craigslist.org/eng/

It wasn't all that hot for me to start with. I probably replied to 80 postings in a month, and only had a couple things pan out, but they panned out all the same.
I just paid $13 and discovered the 'classic' game has been suspended?

I downloaded the alpha and it's....pretty basic. I understand that it's just an alpha and shouldn't expect anything fantastic, which is fine.

But I'm unable to play the game (I think, unless I've overlooked something). Any ideas?
Sucks.
And possibly fed the cat.
Before this I had never heard of them, and now I'm a paying customer. And I am not alone.
Or, more succinctly than my earlier post:

Accessible means "people-friendly".

Again: Best of luck with this.
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Well ... did you want leave your company? If that's the case then going back seems like the wrong idea. If you're good, you can find a new job in this market in no time.