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You should read How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis. Here is an excerpt where he mentions giving money away:
"So why do I not give it away? Because I worked too hard for it. Because I am tained by it. Because I am afraid to. All those reasons and more. Perhaps, if I am lucky enough to become old, I will accumulate something else: the courage to give it all away before I die. That would be a good thing, I think.
...
"Giving money away when you are dead takes no guts. No courage. But to divest yourself of hundreds of millions of dollars, or the greater part of your fortune, before your death? That would be something to be proud of, don't you think? It even makes logical sense."
I got laid off more than a year ago. I decided to in another direction, and picked up the PHP cookbook, and the Definitive Guide to \(.)*\ from my local library. I was unemployed and had time. So I designed, and developed my first website (www.distractmefrom.com), believing Web 2.0 was a hot sector, which would make it easier to be gainfully employed.

The problem is that I don't know if my site is good, or not, since I've never worked in the field--I'm a hobbyist--so I don't have a large tech network to solicit advice.

So I'll leave up to you guys. Do you think my site could get angel funding? And if you're from google, reading this, please hire me.
sending regular (say once in 2-3 weeks) updates about the company could be a good way of staying on the radar
I'm looking into this a bit now. It's not a clearcut situation, in that SO has a license that allows copying. Jeff, drop me an email and let's talk about it more (I followed you on Twitter so you can DM me).

The specific example at http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/5385/page-appe... is ranking SO at #1 for me now, but if you send some more examples I'm happy to chat with people in the search quality team about this.
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> There is, however, no way that Assange will be convicted for any of the charges he is facing.

Are you sure about that? There was also no way the tpb guys would get jail, it's getting darker now.
i disagree with you elon musk is just creating toys for the rich.bill gates and likes are working on real problems . In some developing countries that l know you may not believe how hard it is to get a clean drinking water
Wealthy people generally don't have most of their assets in cash, but rather in diverse investments with a better rate of return, at a minimum TIPS. But there are also advantages (tax etc.) to debt financing of things even if you are wealthy enough to buy things directly.
Because there is obviously a connection between the two.
I wonder what the most popular license is. My anecdotal evidence suggests that the beer licenses have become more popular than the GPL licenses, especially for web projects (MIT, BSD etc.)
My question is, why are the h1s and h2s images? Is the font really that interesting or is that more sarcasm, lol?
Wait, let me see if I understand this right. Stack Overflow doesn't use AdSense. Other sites scrape Stack Overflow and surround the ripped-off content with ads from AdSense. And you're wondering why Google ranks its customers' sites higher than its non-customers'?
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No, not a fair question. What does this even mean? If you really think you know anything at all about how Bill Gates should spend his time and money, feel free to go ahead and actually say what you think he should be spending it on, instead of mouthing platitudes about "bigger ideas" and "investing in himself."
Because in the final result, the link points to the original. The directory listing will even say

link -> original

So naturally you want to say that in the command, "make a link that points to the original".

I had a friend who gave up and made an alias that sorted out which of the arguments existed and did The Right Thing.
PHP - Everyone seems to hate you, but you've managed to help me get every job done. You may be a pain in the ass at times, but I love you and I'm sticking by your side.
It's a fine way to identify one's self. But it's not a terribly relevant title. The article has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that she is female.
http://kodingen.com/

Below is the Founder talking about his product. It looks like a great site, with about 6000 users now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrvnlvnu-k&feature=playe...
Probably the most sobering, necessary talk I needed right now. Thanks!
Post what you want, but read the guidelines and faq linked in the footer.

Also searchyc.com might be of interest.
I don't dispute that his work has helped many, many people. I also acknowledge that simply putting money toward some of those dire problems now will ease a great deal of suffering, which is wonderful.

But philanthropy is an old fashioned way to solve problems. I guess I have this hope that someone like Gates would see a solution that took a very unexpected path.
He didn't say "stark, utter terror", he said that sometimes you SHOULD back down from a bully.

And yes you probably should back down from the government.
I happen to have just watched a brilliant TED talk on the value of angel investment (not aid) in Africa. The talk underlined how it is capitalism rather than charity that creates wealth.

It would be wonderful to see some of SV's glitterati create more for-profit investment networks (bigger than Kiva, smaller than VC (...YC?)) in other hungry markets.

Kudos to Mark for committing to this. If he applies his product-brilliance to how he goes about it I'm sure he will do wonderful things.

(Alexis this has your name written all over it BTW ;)
I have met this guy several times and can say a few things about him: he is the real deal; he is very good, technically savvy, has been working hard and is developing strong expertise in connecting hardware devices to mobile devices, beginning with iPhone. He has a very good reputation at the Hacker Dojo. I'm betting you are going to hear a lot more about his stuff in the future.
I've always wondered what's the Chinese word for "hacker" in the its original context. 网客 sounds good, but it seems to implies web hackers only.
It does look like apart from building a great product in an exciting space Jay may not have done a bunch of things required for making an acquisition happen. Things like being on the radar of a clearly articulated internal champion in the acquiring company, getting multiple outside sources to recommend the acquisition, getting all the stakeholders on board and committed, getting personal and professional growth arrows of stakeholders aligned, getting a stalking horse to create competition for the acquiring company, etc
but that's the point of wepay, it's group payment so you need to setup your group. in the long run, it makes tracking how much people owe each other much easier. they still processes payments.

overall, it's a great alternative to paypal for roommates and basic group expenses.
Haven't all clients supported DHT for a while now? It's good to see a client take the extra step and decentralise search as well, though. Hopefully this won't go the way of KaZaA/Limewire/Gnutella, but even if it does, we'll still have private trackers.
You should turn up your sarcasm-o-meter. He's being sarcastic here, just to highlight the stupidity of the situation. An international arrest warrant for something that they initially dropped?
It's certainly a testament to the power of perspective that you've dismissed a quarter of the planet living sick, hungry, and in poverty as "problems that will always exist", and decided that doing something about it produces no "real value."
It seems to me from your blogpost, only motivation for building Preezo was to move ahead of Google/Yahoo and then sell of to either one of them. Most times, when only business model you are considering is to sell, then most of the times you fail.

I am assuming certain things here, as your business model and how you are going to make money is not at all mentioned in the article and will stand corrected if pointed out.
At least have a look at Austin, Texas.

Texas isn't everyone's cup of tea, but the startup scene down there is starting to look very interesting.
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Basic: I love the 80s

Pascal: Wait, I can create my own types? HOT DAMN

Python: Incredible, no matter how untidy it is it still works

JavaScript: Ditto but faster

Visual Basic: admit it, that was an awesome IDE, especially for 1993

Excel Macro Language: before VB, Excel had macros in cells and you could do weird things with them. I wrote a really nice tax avoidance system in it for a bank once.

C: I don't know why I waited so long to take it up./n Unfriendly string handling offset by beauty of economy./n/n

x86 assembler: My, you're versatile.

56k assembler: Computers are so much more fun when you don't need an operating system

This thread: quite educational actually. I should go back and look at Lua.
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Please, why don't you read your own links?
From that link that you posted:

Aug. 14: . . . The two go out for dinner, return to the apartment and have sex during which a condom breaks.

Aug. 15: . . . Miss A hosts a party for Assange at her home, afterward reportedly tweeting this to friends: "Sitting outside ... nearly freezing, with the world’s coolest people. It’s pretty amazing!"

Clearly the party happened after the first incident, and so did the tweet.
I don't know how he should spend his time, nor do I claim to.

Personally, I'd like to see him start a company that would invent a mobile phone battery that lasts for a month and can power an RC aircraft to fly all the way around the world.

I also worry about the overall risklessness of what he's doing. He's pledged all of his money, so who can criticize it? For most people it's beyond reproach just because of the stated goals.

When Gates dropped out of Harvard he was doing something that a lot of people thought was stupid. That's how big ideas are. I'd like to see him doing something that might actually result in people mocking him for having lost his fortune on a bad idea.
The more you dig, the more you find:

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/02/when-it-comes-to-assange...

(Assanges .au lawyer, obviously biased).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/08/wikileaks-rape-a...

http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/12/09/rundle-r-pe-case-complai...
> that tweet went out before the alleged incidents

No, according to your own link (and the facts), it went out a day and some hours (it was at 2 AM on the 16th) after she alleged that "Assange used his body weight to hold her down during sex".
> That being said, I still think Zuck is far too young to make such a strong commitment.

Do you really think so? Mark is a few years older than me, and I've already arrived at the decision that I'd do much the same as him if I ever had the same cash. He's bright, quite savvy regarding the public, and he's got a great inner stamina. I doubt he worries if he's capable of making money — maybe he'll never equal Facebook's success, in fact probably he won't, but I doubt if he started all over again today he'd fail to make himself a comfortable, cozy living.

It's not like he's being asked to live an ascetic lifestyle, though all stories I've read say that he's fairly minimal. He's just being asked to give away most of his money to help other people. In his case, "most of his wealth" still leaves him more than I've got at present.
Capitalism creating wealth in Africa? Cruel joke?
Do you have a link to the TED talk?
It doesn't always work out that way. Check out Linus Torvalds' discussion of Subversion or Dan Bernstein's discussion of Postfix, for example. Even though Linus and Dan are competent and confident, they were very harshly critical of their "competition".
The difference is, that iOS devices have a much stronger bounding to Apple and can be put in direct revenue numbers.

For Google, the royalties and sales shares of the platform is not as important as having it out there, seamlessly integrating into their online offering. As such, they don't even have these numbers, they just see how many people connect.

For them it basically means: "we have 300k more people every day who are surfing our cloud".
According to this, Android's numbers also include other devices with cellular modems built in, like B&N's Nook.

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/07/16/steve-jobs-confirms-a...

So I'm guessing that "activation" just means a new device (that can access mobile internet) being sold to an end user through a retail channel?
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I use the Pomodoro technique of applying absolute focus to small tasks for 25 minutes. A lot of people use it with the GTD methodology.

There's a nice website (http://tomatoi.st) that lets you start a Pomodoro timer right in your browser. It's pretty convenient.

As far as planning projects out, it's a well known adage that minutes spent planning saves hours stuck in the position you seem to be describing. I used to be a hack-and-slash coder myself, slinging bits and pieces here and there until a final (albeit mangled) product emerged. Trust me, it's a lot cleaner and easier to plan things out in significant detail before sitting down at your IDE.
My experiences interacting with the Rackspace Cloud have been terrible terrible terrible. I could probably write a short book on how bad some of it was.

I literally had so many issues with them when last year (when our startup became extremely popular) I vowed to teach myself server administration so I could begin to run things myself on EC2 and never have to deal with the likes of their terrible customer support again.
At the current building rate, we'll have soon less nuclear reactors. Even with a huge building effort it very much looks like nuclear will remain more or less as is.

Then there isn't that much U 235. We'll need thorium or fusion...

The coal outlook is very unclear. Some reliable sources says it will peak in 2025, 2050, 2100 or 2150. Then we'll have much EROI because of the necessity to capture CO2.

From what I know, we'll use much less energy quite soon individually, and not much more than we do nowadays globally.
Adams, being Adams, wrote most of that tongue in cheek though.

I'm Swedish too, and I think there is a core of truth to what he's saying.

The joke about how you're half a rapist just for having a penis and a fully qualified one if the condom breaks — not true of course, it was just a joke, ha-ha.

But, actually, we do have a pretty liberal definition of rape these days, not that liberal, but still. Rape used to have to contain some element of violence or threat of violence, these days rape doesn't have to contain either. As Assange's accusors have conceded, it was consensual sex.

The feminist movement in Sweden is trying, has been for years, to expand the word "rape" to include less aggrievous stuff. This seems to be another attempt at expanding the definition of "rape" into meaning that the offender didn't "honor the agreement" of the "sexual relation". As if they had arrived at an agreement before they had sex.

I don't think they will win this case though. I expect Assange to be freed of all charges. Possibly a minor charge of non-sexual harassment, or something.
Fantastic.

I wonder if all these very public proclamations are going to shift people's attitude towards taxes? Most people think of the government as wasteful, inefficient, incompetent, and corrupt to more or less degrees, and I know I'd prefer to see money allocated by smart people like Gates, Buffet, Zuckerberg than by politicians who need to keep constituents happy and win votes.

I committed a while back to giving 10% of my income to charity henceforth, probably for my whole life. I know I've felt much better when I raised money for St. Jude's or Grand Ormond Street children's hospitals than when I wrote a check to the IRS to fund the latest special interest-fueled debacle.

There's a "the evil rich are against us" narrative in movies and stories a lot, but I wonder if the perception will start to change when all the good from these endeavors is realized. I think it's quite likely that smart people allocating resources intelligently will do 10x, 20x, 50x more good with the money than a politician possibly could.
A look at https://github.com/languages yields some interesting results. I see VimL there at #10. Is this all just people backing up their personal vim configs, or is there actually anything interesting happening in VimL (seems unlikely)?

Maybe a better question: is GitHub just tracking the number of repositories that contain that language to gauge its popularity? That doesn't seem like the best metric.
What are you asking exactly?
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COBOL... You paid the bills for awhile.
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C calls are trying to mirror the assignment statement in the programming language:
target := source

"cp" is trying mirror how we do things in real life: if you want to take some things from one place and put them in another, you first pick them all up (hence the first argument), walk over to the destination, and then put them down.
A database/ORM lesson from... rails?

You may want to re-think that statement.

(and I'm not trolling, I use and like rails, but the database abstraction is amongst the weakest of all popular frameworks)
Nope. Counter-intuitive truth.
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> This idea has been done before, see http://radaractive.com

Looking through their site - that's $90 for the iphone-detector adapter alone. Plus the cost of the radar detector itself, plus (it seems) a service subscription fee in the future. Perhaps I am missing something, but with the setup like this I don't see them building large enough user base to bootstrap the service. It's a good idea, but the adapter cost needs to go down significantly (to under $20) and it should be usable with existing trap detection networks, e.g. Trapster.
Not since the advent of twilio.com.
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> It's certainly a testament to the power of perspective that you've dismissed a quarter of the planet living sick, hungry, and in poverty as "problems that will always exist", and decided that doing something about it produces no "real value."

Can we spare the moral condemnations? Today's advances in the cutting edge of sciences become the life-saving and enhancing cheap commodities of the future, and being skeptical that poverty can ever be truly defeated isn't exactly a radical position.

That said, I agree with you more than the original poster, and I think philanthropy is fantastic. But let's spare the moral condemnations and shaming of someone who has an alternative point of view.
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Here are already a lot of tips about the local/tactical situation dealing with maybe beeing acquired. But what if it falls through (like it happens way too often)? Was it just this? Can we use this situation to get an advantage, if we get a deal or not?

There is where strategy comes in! Yes, you always have to look for alternatives to use this situation for your company.

For that you need to find out WHY they want to acquire you. For example: Google wants to acquire you, because they want to be in your market (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/07/google-executive-no..., can't find the HN thread for this), then you can ask googles opponents, like facebook, yahoo, microsoft, if they are interested in a deal. That will increase the money you get from anyone and also your chance of beeing acquired.

Because I have no own experience in this matter I will not lead you in the wrong direction by giving you further tips. Maybe other people here can help to give a more strategic view of the situation. How else can an aquisition attempt be leveraged?

Other resources:
http://venturehacks.com/archives#closing
http://venturehacks.com/articles/diligence
http://venturehacks.com/archives <- Actually just reading most of it is healthy itself for a startup who knows nothing about money things.
I think if Mark wanted to give back to the world he should do what Elon Musk is doing and start high risk businesses that can create widespread beneficial change in the world.
Give Softlayer a shot, they've been outstanding for me.
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Incredibly, sickeningly biased.
HTML: <font size="8">Best markup language <b>ever</b>.</font>
English: helps me get around, lots of cool curse words.

Japanese: was able to ask for the restroom in Tokyo, and got some cute girls giggling at me

BASIC: got me started in programming

Visual Basic: Let me make some fun desktop apps, like my Special Ed sound board with prank call capabilities. Also taught me I really needed to get back to using Macs.

Real Basic: Let me make some apps on the Mac like I did with Visual Basic. Then made me realize I didn't like using environments like VB and RB anywhere.

html: Got me started in web development.

javascript: Taught me that frameworks are freaking awesome and to love prototypal OO languages.

php: Sorry, I used it for years and it just taught me to orient towards frontend work. Hell, I can't even get a cute girl to giggle with php, so what's the use?

python: Dear Python, I just wanted to let you know how much I love you. You are such a great language. So simple and straightforward, so easy to understand and to get along with. Its like we were made for each other. I get along with you so much better than my old partner, php.
He doesn't have a billion dollars until the IPO. Good Luck Zuck.
How much liquid wealth does Mark actually have? Isn't the vast majority of it purely theoretical based on Facebook equity purchases?
That's pretty amazing, actually.

How hard would it be put this algorithm into a general-purpose library accessible by multiple applications?
C++: taught me life lessons the hard way, but made me a better programmer for it.

C#: Does everything and gets better with age.

Java: Let's face it - making a version of "Snake" using Swing was a hell of a lot easier than doing it with the console.

VB: Thanks for paying for my first car and at least one internship in college

PHP: The best one night stand I ever had.

MIPS Assembly: I never appreciated loops until I had to rebuild one using you.

ML: Thanks for failing out at least two of my classmates during Programming Languages - I didn't like them anyway.

LISP: Just keep adding parentheses...

Perl: I never really understood you, but you gave me my first test of web dev.
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Image how much more profitable you could be if you got a dedicated server or 10.
This is great; Rather than having government's and or NGO employees who pulls normal salary and aren't experienced in efficiently managing the spending of billions of dollars of development aid and end up harming the recipients, we are now getting the billionaires - people who excel at efficiently investing billions of dollars to reap billions more - to allocate these resources.
Also, not everyone with a radar detector always drives over a speed limit. And yet they are too getting sniped at.
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It isn't even that counter-intuitive. The approach for the longest time was to give aid through food and other basic necessities. Teaching a person how to fish rather than giving him fish clearly produces better results in the long term.