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"The real question that you should be sweating over is, what are you going to do so that people want to be introduced to you?"

Seriously, this solves all sorts of problems. :)

It's nice to go someplace, and maybe you're not quite sure where to sit or who to join, and are you crashing some conversation, etc. and then have someone grab you and say, hey you're so-and-so, and talk to you about the stuff you've been doing.
Does that mean physicists do it in practice?
These terrorist are trying since forever to destroy the Democracy! And our brave officers are holding them back proudly.

We have located their base of operations and its Eastasia.
There are three types of mathematicians. Those who can add and those who can't.
Every base is base 10.

http://cowbirdsinlove.com/43
that 's great :) hopefully, now they can work on improving support for JDO/JPA and release those great features announced in Google I/O.
Microsoft is less secretive about new products than a company like Apple, and with such large fairly constant revenue from things like Windows and Office, the shipment or degree of success of their other products doesn't seem likely to be that big a factor in near future price of the stock. External market conditions, like the state of the economy and trends with competitors seem to matter much more.
The short term impact of Win phone 7 will be more one of mood than the bottom line. They're competing with a free smartphone OS limiting licensing revenue and it would take a substantial market share for search/ad revenue to matter much. Without a huge pool of touch apps and trained users, any non-desktop-binary running tablets would see a much slower adoption rate than the iPad is experiencing and even then what they could get would only capture a small slice of the selling price.
And not really being something new, it's hard to see much in the way of surprises from licensing revenue for tablets that are Windows-desktop binary compatible. It seems the innovation there won't be from MS, but primarily from lower power Intel chips making them more viable. And even then, to be hugely popular with consumers, they'd have to be at a not so profitable price point. They'd also be mostly cannibalizing netbook/laptop sales to users bonded to Windows.

The sales don't seem likely to be tied to insider info, but may be viewed as an admission of agreement with the ho-hum view of most outsiders.
> If you're doing side projects, you are an entrepreneur.

I disagree. If you rely on your day job for income, you're not an entrepreneur.

But, that's not all. You could quit your job and do your own business, and still be quite different from what an entrepreneur is.

I'm personally not in it for the "getting rich" stuff. I'd rather take the 37signal approach than PG's approach. Meaning, I'd rather not take any venture or angel investment. I don't plan to sell (aka exit). In fact I'm quite scared by the prospect of taking large sums of outside investments (like twitter and facebook).

So, I'm not an entrepreneur and I don't want to be one.

> The point is that if you're starting side projects and you hope they succeed, you're doing entrepreneurial things.

This, I agree with. It's somewhat entrepreneurial to quit your job and try to pursue your own projects.

I think the difference comes down to why you'd do it. My impression of entrepreneur types is that they get a kick of taking risks.
There's also a huge area which everyone's discounting: research. In it, Google is a beast with some major contributions and hundreds of publications, while Facebook doesn't even exist.
Q: What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber?

A: You can't cross a vector with a scalar!
I agree. However I hope they do regain that trust b/c app engine is a far more pleasant platform to develop on.
Or its sibling: a genie grants both a mathematician and an engineer their greatest desire to be located at the end of the room given that each step they take towards it is half the distance than their last. The mathematician throws his arms up and yells "Impossible! I'll never reach it," and storms out of the room. The engineer just smiles and says to the genie, "I can get close enough."
Henry Hazlitt has a great book sitting here at Hacker Dojo called Economics in one Lesson written 60 years ago that adresses the phallacies this foolish author has not yet come to see.

I highly recommend he come read it. If he is unable to migrate here the works of this now deceased author are available online for the low price of a simple google query.
One for Dvorak: http://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=NcliuBE5MI
You're aware that drop.io will discontinue service completely before the end of the year, right?
Dang it all, I may have to start cooking now.
Your link doesn't work for me.
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Eat the pie, I; my new swan is nothing.
I guess it depends on what your baseline is. For most of my pageviews, an additional second would double the load time. On an internal app/site an additional few seconds usually isn't worth the trouble, but externally can make a real difference: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/googles-marissa-mayer-speed-wi...
Be like Steve: Enjoy all of your TV on your iPad
When Steve Jobs was asked about watching TV on iPad in the future, he said he was doing that right now. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to do the same thing?
I had a similar idea a while ago... I called it BarterCred. I was excited about it until I really began a deeper examination.

The only way I could see to generate actual revenue was to win auctions (by printing credits) and then re-selling the things for real money. I wonder if they came up with something different.
My experience is once again completely different. I kind of prefer the extra speed the hardware keyboard provides and my Blackberry does have auto-correct. Emails are pushed to my phone before both the browser or my email client notify me. I just sent an email to myself and I received the push notification almost instantly (around 5 seconds faster than both the browser and the client). On my phone, un-locking means either pressing a series of keys at the same time or pressing a hardware button on the top of the phone. I have never ever have had my phone miss dial or even been unlocked by mistake. It is easy to un-lock it when I really do want to though.

May I ask what model you are using? I'm currently using a 9700 and other than the fact that I miss a few apps I had on my iPhone, I actually do find this phone pretty good where smartphones are concerned.
It was an ironic quip, with the irony being that Hacker news is not honoring the link...
I think you mean (ate 7 9). Don't feel bad, infix notation can creep up even on experienced Lisp programmers.
This is by far the best t-shirt candidate.
It's an interesting analysis of the current situation, but the proposed methods for changing the system are depressingly trendy:

Just as “flash mobs” summon young people to engage in some simultaneous bizarre act in a specified place at a specified time, the “flash seminars” alert students to an edgy topic -- no examples of how edgy -- that will be discussed in a professor's living room.

If they want a good model of popular education and intellectualism, they do exist. Take the amateur astronomy community, for instance, or Wikipedia culture.
I get what you're saying about energy costs, but I'm not as convinced. We (first-world) got a lot of cheap manufacturing inputs because we ignored (i.e. passed on to next generations) some of the costs of energy, namely pollution and water use in coal. One of the reasons we were able to do that in the 50s and 60s is that we hadn't really convinced ourselves it would be as bad as the environmentalists said, so we ignored it.

China won't be able to pass those externalities on to future generations as we did. The reason is that we serve as an example of what happens when you do ignore the full cost of energy generation, and there is already significant local concern about pollution from unrestricted manufacturing and energy generation.

I think China will not have the luxury that we had of several decades of ignoring some hidden input costs. They will be forced to implement full environmental impact controls which will drive up energy costs.

They do have some dam projects for hydropower generation left to bring online, but I can't see any really major projects being implemented after that. Then there's nuclear, about which I don't know.
> Doesn't virtually everyone with a modern smartphone have free real-time texting?

At least in the US, the cell companies charge a pretty penny for text messages.
app store has been a neglected

I guess you are confusing the Google App Engine's App Gallery : http://appgallery.appspot.com/, which has been removed for some reasons and the Google Apps Marketplace : http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace, which is the actual App Store, where you could pay and install apps.

App Gallery was just a GAE application show-case center, and most likely was causing confusion to Google Apps customers too.

I am still a developer who trusts GAE (my app was on the appgallery and is also listed on marketplace) and believe that they will continue to compete for developer mind-share, as they proved yet again with this performance update.

Let go of the fear, uncertainty & doubt and hop on to try an app. You will like it too.
They wont kill it . They will increase the price of it. That will make MySQL to less popular for sure .
When you have a share repurchase program, you are basically giving a support for the market. It is hard for the stock to go much lower, because the company is always buying.

This statement shows a common misunderstanding of finance.

The market cap of a company represents the market's best estimate of the value of that company. When a company does a share buy-back, the company loses money and destroys stock. The current value of the money used matches the value of the stock destroyed, and so the market cap should be reduced by the amount of stock destroyed. Therefore to first order effects, the result is that the share price should remain constant. (There are second order effects where some value is transferred from stock holders to option owners, which indicates that the share price should go down.)
I've only spent about a week in India (Delhi, Agra and Jaipur). It was a good trip, but not necessarily 'fun'.

If there is one thing I learnt (as a caucasian), it is that anyone who talks to you on the street (who doesn't have an obvious reason to be there like a shop keeper with merchandise) is probably trying to scam you. Trying to buy a train ticket to Agra from Delhi was a nightmare; we ended up organising a taxi through our hotel. It was hard going from being used to trusting directions and advice from strangers at home, but I got over that pretty quick.

Also, carry plenty of small change; anyone who does absolutely anything at all for you will expect a tip.

Have fun :)
Buzz me when you'll be in Mumbai. My email is in my profile.
Having been to several conferences my only advice would be do everything with confidence and a big smile.

As an undergraduate I approached many famous people in my field with nothing more than a smile and a hand out, they all understand where you are having been there themselves at some point.

Usually they will ask you what you're doing and show some kind of interest in your work or ideas.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
First of all i don't think this is really about bad management, but about employees with a choice.

You have disgruntled employees everywhere. I think the real difference is that in places like the U.S (And Israel) people where raised with a sense of self entitlement, they all KNOW they deserve better (And IMHO they do!).

Some cultures have a sense of self-deprecation, which basically means you should be glad to have even the crappiest job even if it is frozen manure shoveling.

On a personal level, everything said reflects on me perfectly. I just quit the job i had for the past 3 years (IT manager/Support/Trainer), since upper management decided to replace our very loved manager with a douche. Our current manager knew how to take a small team, get them to work hard (even very hard at times) and still come back to work the next day with a smile. My salary was lower than what i could get working in a similar position in a different place (and i was constantly getting offers to let me know that), but i was happy - so i stayed.

Now that i have left, i am joining a relatively new business as a partner - an offer that i politely declined until now.
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A mathematician got something stuck up his ass. He worked it out with a pencil.
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Of course "glorified hedge fund" is an exaggeration and the UK does have pockets of innovation in industries like biotech. Services is 75% of GDP, 10% of GDP is financial services in the narrowest sense. That's compared to 7.5% in the US and 3.8% in Germany. How much of that huge services sector is linked to financial services? My own observation is that about half of all IT jobs in the UK are related to finance. I think it's fair to say that the value Britain adds to the world economy is dominated by investment banking.

There are historical reasons for that, but the extremely lax approach to regulation plays a huge role as well. The UK is where hedge funds and investment banks from all over the world go to do the most daring kinds of gambles. AIG was the biggest insurer in the world. Their small London office bankrupted the entire company. Why was that office in London instead of New York?

But my point is that any claim that the UK is leading the world in terms of a new type of knowledge driven, highly automated manufacturing model is completely delusional. It just doesn't exist outside of a few speeches David Cameron gave during the election campaign. Britain is not even on the map when it comes to technology.

I don't know if this is a big problem. Maybe the world can sustain a few bloated financial centres and will do so for a long time to come. But if it turns out that finance as a share of world GDP has peaked, then the UK is in a very dire situation, arguably the worst outside if Iceland.
What do you mean by:

There is as yet no literary exemplar of the hypertextual realm, it is curious that we have to go back to a poem that predates the hyperlink to find a good fit.

Do you not count hypertext fiction? E.g. stuff like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afternoon,_a_story
There are many works that fit into this format, e.g. Joyce's Ulysses, the classics, etc.
This is true. You absolutely need to know the art of bribing to get things done in India. Because people who pay Rs50-100 ($1-2) to the right person will jump way ahead in the line. So if you don't bribe - or don't know how to bribe - things will take very very long for you. This goes for everything from getting a new internet connection to filing papers for a new company incorporation.

The reasoning about "everybody happens to be born into their designated places" is not true however. India had the caste system. Not anymore. Sure you'll find a few pockets of exceptions - a few villages that still think they are living in the 16th century. But by and large, this is not true.

If you can hustle, you can succeed in India.

Case in point:

Dhirubhai Ambani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhirubhai_Ambani
Made his money in textiles and oil, gas, energy.

Gautam Adani
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautam_Adani
Made his money in shipping.

Both of them were very poor once. Their stories outshine Horatio Alger stories.
Coffee for diabetic persons
According to the Department of Health, diabetes is one of the five deadly diseases in the country.

This is the reason why coffee lovers discover a way on how they can still maintain their love for coffee without increasing their sugar level by coming out with a coffee that is sugar free.
I object! The average person has less than one breast and less than one testicle.
I don't get it. Why did 7 eat 362,880?
I don't understand where is the problem in accessing students who learn from open courses (I am not saying there is no problem, but I just don't understand it). Most of the grading is done based on quizes, mid terms, terms, term papers etc. All these can be given by these students and you get the assessment.
That's not really a refactoring improvement. Same number of lines and one more level of nesting. I mean in that particular example it doesn't hurt either way much, but that is the problem with that example.
I really hope you don't comment code like that and this is just a result of the example.
Is it possible that the degradation in performance is due to more developers building more apps and driving more traffic to App Engine as time goes on?
tl;dr:

They don't get it.
Study shows the Importance of Domain Names
I am pretty sure all the apps I have on my phone require login only once and never again. I'd just avoid to login that one time in a crowded place and the risk is gone.
"Spherical bastard: Someone who's a bastards from every viewpoint"

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Zwicky.html
How to setup your router to automatically reconnect
My all time favorite is "Find x":
http://www.ximnet.com.my/thelab/images/upload/findX.jpg

"Be Rational" and "Get Real" is pretty good too:
http://media.photobucket.com/image/rational/CocaC0la99/be-ra...
I couldn't imagine a worse way to read literature (although hats off to the creator for the hard work). The beauty of The Waste Land comes from slowly unwrapping the references and allusions yourself. As we know from exploratory programming, there's value in the process of both discovery and understanding. This medium removes discovery.

On a different note, certainly the first read of any poem shouldn't be as cluttered and busy as what's presented here.
The site reminds me of designer Justin Ouellette's http://theshittoget.com/ (combined with aggregated and calculated Amazon/Epinions etc.)

Personally I find Justin's site more captivating and would be more likely to trust his judgment than the masses.
Wouldn't pressing charges = public outing + legal ramifications? Seems clearly worse than just a public outing.

And no, definitely shouldn't presume anything in these cases, which is what I meant by that last line.
>Its an innocent, curious question. Don't see why it has to accomplish anything.

Because if you post something on HN that doesn't accomplish anything, you are lowering its signal:noise ratio.
"Life is complex is because it has both real and imaginary components."

Cannot recall the source.
A fun example I had to deal with was a big site which processed lots of terribly formatted data to build its content. One particular rule for processing incoming data relied on breaking a big blob of text into very specific fields based on where capital letters fell.

We had made a point of asking before the project if regionalisation was ever going to be an issue and no, it would only ever be in English. Shortly after go live we were asked to regionalise everything into Chinese.

I'm still not sure what a capital letter looks like in Chinese.
That one is so bad, because it doesn't work. Presumably the derivative is used to calculate a tangent line. However, a tangent line touches the curve only at one point, unless the curve is totally flat. Either way, this is not what you want. You want fuckin' Taylor series approximations. (They won't work on curves that aren't smooth, but that's all right, because those are the curves you want to touch anyway.)

Aww yeah.
I don't know why this post is getting so many upvotes and got onto front page. May be more people are interested in this topic? I thought sending a private email asking this question would be awkward, whereas here he can choose to answer or just ignore it.
As amazed as I am when I see 'old' programmers try to justify 100+ line methods because it is 'logically separated'. Just my opinions but I think bad code should say 'refactor me' in the strongest possible terms ;-) (ymmv)
stop hating.
Question:Whatz a PJ ?
Answer: Obviously "a poor joke"
Question: Whatz a (P + iJ)?
Answer: "complex poor joke"
But why don't people laugh on a "complex poor joke"?
Bcoz the joke part of it is imaginary.

http://www.akhilesh.in/life/fun/jokes/pj0061AComplexPJ.php
http://www.math.ualberta.ca/~runde/jokes.html
Private events - if you do feel compelled go to... The best advise and one that works most of the time is; act like you belong there. Don't stop at the front and ask questions or give someone a reason to talk to you, just walk in. If someone looks at you, and they might be asking for invites just nod and keep walking. It a tech party not backstage at a Justin Bieber concert.

Though having been to many private tech parties both invited and not; I realized they are fairly boring. The best ones are the bigger conference parties with a concert. Book release parties are the worst.

Crash the ones that have free food and booze, if you do. Good general advice is always have a drink/plate in your hand as it is the simplest and a polite way to leave a conversation. "need to get a refill, talk to you later"
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What's this? Two submissions about 'The Waste Land' on the front page of HN?

As much as I don't like conceited meta-comments, I have to say that this is an incredible and surprising community...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math_jokes
I never thought I would ever see these words:

Works best on Google Chrome or IE9 Beta

Note: Emphasis is on IE9.
you can post nsfw images and get reported, i heard it works better.
Not sure if that can fit on the t-shirt, but here are couple of ideas

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2174/2268237733_cda4a1dbb3.jp...

http://geektech.geektech.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

(these are 'captchas' that require you to solve a problem)

Also, liked these (unrelated to maths):

http://geektechnica.com/2010/06/10-craziest-captchas-out-the...
Google Maps must diffuse metadatas with their maps : date, origin/source, level of quality, scale of usability, etc.

It's the least they can do to reduce the occurence of such problems. Any honest and serious map data diffusion present metadatas. Cf. the EU "Inspire" directive for public geographical data diffusion.
Its not a joke but a series of punny things crammed into a catchy song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BipvGD-LCjU
A friend of mine once claimed that a specific celebrity couple had their ages as 88 years and 44 years respectively. All others said that they knew the age difference was big for this couple, but it couldn't be that big! Some more probing and my friend blurted "I remember exactly that when they got married, they were 44 and 22 respectively".
I've always wanted a t shirt that said "I love LAMP" with a picture of a computer on it.
You are talking about the India before 1991. "Licence Raj, also the Permit Raj, refers to the elaborate licenses, regulations and accompanying red tape that were required to set up and run businesses in India between 1947 and 1990.[1]"

There has never been a more supporting ecosystem for entrepreneurs in India. Shaadi.com/Rediff.com/Naukri.com/JustDial.com and many others are just few of the success stories.
I prefer to spend 100% of my time on benefiting from the growing gap left between the Oracles, Microsofts and SAPs on one end and the integrate a bunch of FOSS approach on the other. I think there is room for simple, value for money, intelligent, low maintainance software, even in the enterprise.