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Exactly. I was trying to think how to build a chat program on this, and establish keys between two chatees for communicating, but it seems impossible to make a public channel/key for registering interest in chatting in the first place, without using an untrusted readwrite channel/key.

An append only store might solve it, with a key that is globally known. Some sort of broadcast channel. An append only, with limited size appends, and cleared at regular intervals.
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If you are a .net person on Linux, you should probably look at Mono(http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page)
I found this discussion on StackOverflow about Mono-based frameworks:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/587159/has-anyone-used-an...
On the other hand if you are open to learning new languages like python or ruby you could check out Django or Ruby on Rails
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This is exactly what I thought when I saw the same people still online -- which brought about the second round of messages. I hoped my frankness and lack of any links would make the message seem more sincere, but perhaps at this I failed.
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> Freedom includes bad things not happening to you.

Huh? So you're not really 'free' unless your government can guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to you?
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1) If government spends $1B for providing a service that I can provide for $1M -- then government still wins even if my business is 100 times more efficient than government's.

2) If I have unlimited money supply -- I can always outbid you so you would not be able to hire anybody for your business.
I was almost the co-author of that book. :)

Hi Anthony, awesome to see it coming out! Great job! I'll check it out.
I truly enjoy this series. It gives genuine insight into today's companies (i.e. not a Microsoft or Apple) and offers real advice that startups can act on right now.

Two really good posts:

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Unfortunately the few non-tech news sites that I've read have covered it with blatant disregard for the underlying cause. It's been Firesheep that's pointed at as the issue, not Facebook and Twitter and Amazon ad infinum.
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How about from this perspective:

With regard to BDD not being a big loss:

BDD tests the complete behavior of a system. You can refractor the system a hundred different ways and completely change implementation if you like (or even start using a completely different programming language) and as long as the BDD tests continue to pass, you know you have NOT changed the features and behavior of your system. You know, 100%, that you have not broken the system as a whole.

With regard to 1 and 2:

1) Every product owner is different. Some do like to write down what they want. Some don't. In no way does this give a developer the excuse of not developing to specifications/features/behavior. Part of that "technical" stuff that you are paid for is to assure that you have actually developed the exact behavior what was asked for. Nothing more. Nothing less. At the very least, you have something that a BA/PO/Manager/Client can look at when they say let you know you gave them something they didn't want.
2) If hey don't have time to define the behavior of your system (or delegate that task) then you really don't have time to understand their customer nor find that set of features that gives them the best ROI.
The Chinese CPU is junk, and the chinese supercomputer is built out of US parts - I wouldn't be too apocalyptic about technological superiority for some years yet.
Great examples. You might also remember that it took Hong Kong forever to protect races and sex status. Singapore Airlines is notorious for discriminating age, sex, and looks of its flight attendants.
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I considered Mono. But I want to learn a new language. Thanks for the Django suggestion. Tried RoR once and felt that it didn't fit my style.
I'd hazard a bet that the type of servers deployed in cloud systems like Azure isn't really suited to large number crunching operations (such as rendering).

A good example of a big FX shop is WETA Digital (they did LOTR and Avatar) who own supercomputers at 279, 280, 281, 282, 283 and 413 on the Top 500 Supercomputer List. I'd be amazed if Azure had anywhere near that kind of power (in any kind of suitable configuration).
It amazes me that there are people who enjoy programming, yet settle for less interesting / boring jobs that they complain about and dislike. You are amongst the very lucky few where you can make a living doing what you enjoy, why do you use the "it's just a job" excuse? The software engineering job market is extremely fluid: there's not even a need to start your own business to do what you love.
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A goal of the the assignment is to create a site that shows up at the top of the search results for a query. I wonder if the student created the silly sounding C&D letter with the goal of generating page rank improving links back to his site from discussion in the blogsphere about the letter.
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I'm not seeing how this can happen. Love my iPhone for Email reading / Skype chatting / quick browsing, but that's pretty much all the productive work I can do with it.

My wife is also asking me repeatedly how the hell can I browse the web on that small screen.

With my laptop I can also stay in bed AND type with the lights closed and without much effort. That's not something I can say about devices like the iPad.

IMHO ... in the future devices will simply vanish from sight and get replaced by interfaces based on holograms projected from your furniture.
1) The reason why baby-posters are so pro-baby is not as much about natural selection, but more about different kind of filter: the one who is NOT pro-baby is less likely to write about babies.

Not that it matters in the context of this discussion though :-)

2) Wife can not only produce more babies, but also raise existing kids, support the family (financially and otherwise), and more.

The same is applicable to the husband.

3) Internal thinking affects your behavior. A lot.
So if you think that your kid is THE MOST important thing in your life -- you are more likely to make mistakes and bad choices.
Hmm... I guess I don't see any part of the original sentence that implies what you just wrote.
Well said.
I also think if you REALLY want it, you can make it work. It will probably be way harder.

I am someone who is on the same boat, working full time on a completely separate project, and working on side to get my web app all setup.
I lost a lot of my motivation late august, due to crazy working hours/ least social life/ issues at full time job because a senior guy quit, and I got a lot more workload than expected.
But I believe this way I would also learn way more than normal scenario, picking either one, and probably the best learning/productive period of my life.

I guess only way to test your limits is to push yourself to the limits and then look back and see how far you've come.

Just FYI, my full time job involves Java, GWT, GXT(Sencha), Spring, Hibernate and/or JPA (depending on the branch), MySQL, JAXB, Java Web services and other Java related tools, (Ant etc.)

On my startup side, it started almost a year ago, when I had a working prototype of an Excel addin, written in C#, which we then realised needs to be a web app, and now I am working on a web app using Javascript, Jquery, LAMP etc.

Of course, there are always hiccups, and major issues, every couple of months, and I see my life and wonder if I would change anything and I don't really know how to accept "reality" (need to get a girl, marry, get a house etc.), esp since I still want to finish what I started. I just rebounded from a serious case of demotivation, but now my doctor is telling my I might have colon cancer and what not, and tomorrow is my appointment with a specialist about it.

But I know for sure, disease or not, as long as I have some energy left, I would finish my startup work and launch it in a couple of months hopefully.

Here's to hoping all my "working-on-a-startup-on-the-side" HN brothers too are able to do whatever is needed and get it started.
It's not possible to guarantee that nothing bad will ever happen to someone. But I am definitely more free if the government actually prevents (ex-?)criminals from harming me. A sovereign is responsible when criminals harm people; they have the ability to institute high- and low-tech measures to vastly reduce crime. The government I'm familiar with (USG) does very little, because of structural problems.
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Why do not you seek a collaboration.
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>I wouldn't be drawing diagrams of synapses and how the chemical signals flow

I actually think that's a pretty good analogy for what programmers do. You program the give function to accepted the variables nominative (you), accussative(hot dog), and dative(me). Now lets say you want to create multiple functions (give, send, take) that are operators on nominative, accussative, dative and want to reuse code easily. Or you want to use your "give" function to define what a "gift" is. No problem in LISP.
No.

Just to add to the list of alternatives, I don't know where you live but several states have some sort of "talented and gifted" magnet school that might be more challenging/engaging for you. Many cities do as well, but you're probably well aware of local options.

There's also Bard College at Simon's Rock which accepts rising high school juniors and gives them a BA in 4 years (and is affiliated with a top tier liberal arts college). The timing for that is just about right.

Also, you may be interested to learn more about the "unschooling" movement. Some variation of that might be a good fit for you. Google "unschooling" or "John Taylor Gatto" for some background info.

Other people in this thread have discussed the drawbacks of a GED rather an a high school diploma, so I thought I'd share this one little anecdote:

One of my classmates in high school happened to have skipped a lot more grades than most. He was 12 in his junior year of high school, so I guess that made him 14 or 15 when he started college and around 19 when he graduated from undergrad.

He was a great kid. Clearly ridiculously smart but very modest and soft spoken. Everyone seem to like him. But he didn't really have "friends" per se. Everyone was nice to him, but everyone treated him like a kid brother.

I ran into him at our 15 year high school reunion and we had a long chat. Looking back on it as a happy, successful and established adult, one thing he clearly regretted about his life is that he never really had a college or a high school "experience", he just went to classes. And he regretted it.

My point is that there is more to the high school experience than what you're being taught in class. Sure, you can skip it, but be aware that you're trading away something with real value, sometimes even when it doesn't seem like it is. I don't think that should make your decision for you, but it's another thing to throw on the "no" side of the scales.

Also, I think the deck is generally stacked against you as 15 year old high school drop out trying to succeed as an entrepreneur. Gaining a little bit more life experience (quite possibly doing fun and exciting things that aren't like high school) might make you a better entrepreneur. You'll understand your customers, partners and employees better.

(inb4 "Fool, YC has had several successful 18/19 year old founders." I know. That's not the same situation as this.)
It was my understanding that parts that are officially consumer replaceable parts need to be more structurally sound for safety compliance (e.g. in case it is dropped when it is outside the machine), and that this extra battery casing takes up significant space—space that could otherwise be used for more battery.

Aha, here we go:

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Source: https://www.apple.com/macbookpro/battery/
The more voodoo you do to maximize the alignment of the affiliate program and eBay's long term interests -- and eBay does do the voodoo that you do so well -- the less easy it will be to understand for anyone who is on the outside looking in. My transparent, easy-to-implement, easy-to-understand hypothetical $0.25-per-trial affiliate structure is harmful to the developer's economic interests and harmful to the desire of affiliates to continue working with me.

After we switch to any of your suggestions with dynamically scaling payouts -- which eBay did a long, long time ago -- we enter a world where the payouts, seen from a vantage point outside the system, resemble black magic. That is exactly this site's complaint. They have been judged by the black magic and they have been found wanting.

There is no way to explain to them what they've done wrong because it is an emergent behavior of the interaction been Google's rankings (black magic), their own site and strategy, eBay's business practices (black magic), the underlying economy (black magic), etc. There might very well not be any person in eBay who can explain, given any amount of resources to investigate, what this account did "wrong". But they can justify, with incredible predictive capability, that systemwide the black magic generates higher average LTVs for lower average traffic acquisition costs.

Any sufficiently advanced conversion optimization system is AI. (Blog post coming up on this.)
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The way that you display the webpage (like a power point presentation) looks impressive and clear. How is this done?
It's one thing to politely knock on the door, it's another to keep banging on their kitchen window when they are obviously ignoring you. The users probably feel helpless and just want to be left alone.

For a non-tech person it's a pretty big jump from surfing Facebook at Starbucks to setting up a VPN.
I disagree. I dislike the way the web page is displayed, because it breaks important conventions on how web pages should work. Instead, there should have been forward and back buttons to navigate between the individual slides.
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Really? I see random flyers for them across campus but never gave it too much thought. Thanks! I'll be sure to check it out. Would you by any chance be able to send me some info about the club (meeting places/time)?
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That is not technologically or organizationally impossible, but there are many reasons to prefer paying based on estimated rather than realized LTV. One reason is that many affiliates incur non-zero traffic acquisition costs immediately, or close to immediately, because they use AdWords or similar methods. (Or, alternatively, because their SEO enjoys being paid money on a regular basis. I certainly like getting my salary from the bingo business regardless of whether the business sells a lot or a little in a given month!)

eBay currently extends them money far in advance of eBay receiving it, with the understanding that if there is an upside eBay will get most of it. If eBay pays them only after eBay gets money, that will cause many of them to go cashflow negative, and since they are not billion dollar publicly listed companies with easy access to capital at low rates, that leads to the firm either failing or exiting the eBay relationship. Neither of these outcomes benefit eBay.

There are numerous other risks this exposes affiliates to -- eBay retroactively changes the rules, eBay becomes unable to pay out the money, eBay has extrinsic changes in their business which lower payments after affiliates have incurred upfront costs sending them traffic, etc. All of these risks make eBay a less attractive partner to do business with.

You can't always have everything you want. There is a tradeoff here: eBay will pay you substantial amounts of money, up front, absorbing most of the financing and execution risks. However, in return for this, you agree to having your business relationship governed by what will appear to be black magic.
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Yes, just look at Boeing vs Airbus and the WTO.

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Cython is not a bad story for C interop, though. See e.g. pyevent (http://code.google.com/p/pyevent/), which provides Python bindings to libevent. Be warned: until there's a new release of pyevent (0.4), you should, in my opinion, use the SVN version.
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Ha! Nice theory man - I love how limits pushes are creativity beyond from where it has ever been before.

Lol, I love it and suck at it too :P
Nice idea, super simple, and poses some interesting questions.

There could be security issues with this given you can serve arbitrary MIME types. XSS won't be a problem because there are no cookies to steal. Maybe you could make a script that self-propagates across the key-space using AJAX.
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I was in an early entrance program to U of North Texas back when highly-organized early entrance was a (very) newfangled creation. If you qualify for a large, on-campus early entrance program with plenty of kids your own age, you ought to go for it. If you Google for early entrance college, you'll find plenty of information.

The criteria for acceptance after 20-odd years of development of these programs correlates surprisingly well with whether or not someone your age ought to be in a more adult, independent setting. Thus, if you are accepted, that's a pretty good indicator that you're ready to go to the next level. If you aren't accepted, then you're probably not.

Having said that, you say that 70% of high school is spent pleasing other people and performing tasks of rote memorization that you don't think you'll ever use again. I have terrible news for you: 90% of most employment is about pleasing other people and rote memorization. Often the rote memorization is about memorizing the things that please other people so you can plan on doing them over and over again. In technical terms, it's called satisficing behavior. In real terms, it's why people demand to get paid to do their jobs.

Seriously though, early entrance. If you don't like high school and you can make it into something else, go for it. Go be with kids like you who want to do bigger things sooner. If it's appropriate for you, it's worth doing.