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The first question is, how much runway do you have?

The second is, how long will it take you to develop the prototype on your own?

The third is, do you have a potential partner in the pipeline?
Wow, I really like the simplicity here. I've been in need of a way to store the drink recipes I've used over the years, and this seems to be a great solution.

Something that would really help me, and I presume chefs because there's alot of categorizing going on there, too, is the ability to tag recipes with a category. SimpleNote on iOS, Web, (and I think Android?) has a good implementation of this. Categorizing a drink as an apertif, or by its glassware or whatever would be a great tool. I think if you were to try this, custom made categories would be crucial.
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Or to do more orderly crossings at regular intervals.

The market makers (and shadow market makers) on the ECNs get paid for providing liquidity, rather than having to pay.

This kind of stuff isn't supposed to happen on the NYSE, as all the trading goes through a single specialist.
I don't think it matters what the market is like, it will always be hard to get someone to work for you for sweat equity, especially if they have to leave their jobs to do so.
...which is why we probably never get to retire. The weirdly shaped population pyramid in the Western world can make "maybe Google will buy us" a more reasonable retirement strategy than retirement funds
The first i7 processors to use a newer fabrication process than the one used on all Atom processors so far was released one year ago. A 1-1.5 year lag for the low-end parts is completely normal, and the 45nm process is not yet horrendously outdated. AMD hasn't made the switch to 32nm yet, so you couldn't even claim that Intel has squandered their monopoly advantage of always having the newer, smaller process.
Reading this piece shook me and made me wonder, because either Ms Chua is bringing her kids up wrong, or we are.

That's a false dichotomy. There are not two ways to treat children (hard vs soft).

I think Bray falls into the same trap as many of the indignant respondents on MetaFilter to Chua's piece (though in a less emotive way). There are no dichotomies when it comes to raising children or "what's best" for them, but people seem quick to adopt their own society's and communities' norms to judging both their own parenting techniques and those of others. Seneca was right to suggest that one should learn philosophy to grow as a human being because without such study these polarized opinions are so easy to cling to.

I think Chua does a reasonable job of acknowledging and describing the gulf between her supposedly traditional "Chinese" opinions and the "Western" gamut of parenting techniques without casting significant aspersions on "Western" parenting, at least in the essay given (I haven't read her book). When it comes to Westerners judging Chua, however, people seem very quick to paint her techniques as wrong, evil, or "cruel" using a moral framework that simply doesn't apply to her case - it's about as meaningful as criticizing how Amazonian tribes live (or, better, judging American politics by European standards).

As in everything, there's a middle way here. Bray's observations indicate, to me, that he sees the gooey middle of the parenting gamut but then fails to acknowledge it.
Ask HN: Link to earlier post on visual design for hackers?
A few weeks back there was an article submitted on here by a guy who had a book-related app that he had been working on and had given it a substantial facelift with a few simple changes. I've spent the better part of the last half hour searching Evernote, Instapaper and Google to try and find the article, but to no avail. Does anyone on here recall the article and/or link?
If you're interested in playing with selector-based templating in Rails, there's a very interesting library called Effigy which does this.

https://github.com/jferris/effigy

It seems like a great way to keep design from getting too tightly coupled with a changing app. It would be great if there was some way to "precompile" the selectors and use this as a performant replacement for messy templates.
You can't disagree with either cperciva or btilly, because they've merely been presenting facts and figures. I don't see an opinion there
>And we could threaten someone's family to show the counterpoint to that point.

That's why a hell of a lot of people are working - if they don't work, their family would get to go live in a box on the sidewalk. That's another way of saying that workers are motivated by money, for a sizable fraction of workers.
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I wouldn't be surprised if Starbucks' actual coffee size naming scheme seeks to benefit from this effect while dodging the flak.

Changing the normal offered beverages from "Short", "Tall", and "Grande" to "Tall", "Grande", and "Venti" obtains the same effect as described in this post without being as overt about it. (On the face of it, "Grande" is an odd thing to call a medium beverage in the first place.)
disabling referring sites to login providers might be another solution.
Consumers may not be in the habit of comparing power draw in watts, but they would certainly notice a 50-100% difference in battery life. While it may be that not even half of the laptops sold these days are intended for mobile use, there are still enough for that to be an important market.
Simulated Annealing with restarting is a simpler, less finicky and robust one to use in place of GAs. But since the No Free Lunch theorem for optimization says that the general applicability of any optimization algorithm is as bad as every other and no better than random search the answer is like anything else. Understand your problem and pick the right tools. You can get an overview of the numerous techniques here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Optimization_algorithm...

* Actually its not quite any since it holds not exactly but to a very very good approximation and there are a few, like Coevolutionary approaches which provide a loophole out of that. So that might be something you want to look at.
To your brain, music is as enjoyable as sex
Julian Jaynes, Origin of Consciousness in The Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind ~ edifying implications about human nature
Your story provides some interesting confirmations of the points I raised in my own story of 2009: http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/

Despite being approached to do the 2nd edition of what was a popular book (in its field), my negotiations on the licensing failed and, as anticipated, the 2nd edition has done extremely poorly compared to the 1st due to new competition and a lack of anyone serious recommending the book because it's not available in an open format to "scope out." (And as someone who recommends books, this is key for me. I can't buy every beginners' book that I don't need merely to judge them for others.)

Your post will serve as interesting ammunition in future discussions between many authors and their publishers, I suspect, and I applaud you for putting it out!
Are you not allowed to call bullshit on something unless you can do better? I believe the contrary; I think that reading around and saying "You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong. Here are citations to show you're wrong" is actually a very valuable contribution to science and society -- what are the point of such models if they don't work?

The difference between Newton and the securities traders that Taleb dislikes is that Newton actually managed to predict things with certainty. A large part of the Black Swan is Taleb pointing out that barely any retrospective review is done on predictive models.
One way to solve the problem is to proceed in two steps.

First you hire a bootstrapping team that will help you build the prototype. At this stage, you're looking for people that will accept low salaries, because that's all you can afford (interships, outsourcing, etc...).

Then, with a prototype in hand, you hire a team of A-people that will take it to the next level.

Also, moving to a foreign country can be a good way to cut your spendings, I write a post about that recently: http://gregschlom.com/post/2300487726/geographic-arbitrage-h...)
Regardless of if he is a moron or not...

He made a mistake. Haven't we all at some point? He admits his guilt and apologizes. That is more than most people. (the Palin woman's spokesperson saying those are not gun-sights for example).
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Reductio ad absurdum is only valid if the proposition is a binary true or false proposition. This question involves a matter of degree, not a binary true or false.

Also, it's important to note that if you posted the job for $1 million you'd get a lot of applicants, but they wouldn't be happy or last very long. It turns out that there is such thing as paying someone too much. The reason being that money is a form of external motivation. Too much external motivation decreases intrinsic motivation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation#Intrinsic_and_extrin...
Your conclusion is a non-sequitur. You cannot make that statement without considering all the people who shipped and worked on something everyday and are not successful.
prototype. Absolutely.

If you knew people already who wanted to join you that would be great but if you are going to start looking around now then you will burn all your savings in meetings etc and will have nothing to show for it.

Get the honey and the bees will find their way.
Putting the BNP alongside the US Republican Party is a bit controversial.

Though not in the context I was under. I was listing organizations that the general swarm of liberal types on sites like HN may feel strongly polarized against.

I could extend the list to something like BNP/Republican Party/Microsoft/SCO's legal fund/the Nazi party - the list is valid even though comparing Microsoft to the Nazi party makes little sense in any other context.
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I forked it and made some simple edits to remove the php dependency, except when loading from URLs. This will work if you want to host it locally without php -- due to security restrictions it won't work if you just open file://.../index.html in your browser.

https://github.com/jeremybanks/gameboy-online

I think the only other issue is that I probably messed up the styles a bit in IE. I will fix that later.
Interesting.. I'm hoping people like you can help balance out the effect people like me are having (I have zero interest in seeing music live or buying merchandise, so it's a raw deal for them from me alone).
Amazing. Both the software and his girlfriend.
from the article:

Writing to random locations in system memory isn't generally a wise design practice. Unsurprisingly, the game would generate spectacular crashes as a result. A human player would be driving blind and usually crash right away, limiting the scope of system casualties. The AI opponents had no such weakness. The computer would scan immediately in front, to the left, and to the right of its position to determine if it was about to hit a wall and change directions accordingly. So as far as the computer was concerned, system memory looked no different than screen memory. As Marco described it,

We can only speculate what it started doing once it left screen memory, since it obviously would look to find a way to continue going in a direction that was occupied by 0’s. If it became blocked and ran into a “wall” of numbers, it would die. In those spectacular crashes though, it would sometimes be running around very much “alive” until at some point it either overwrote some code being executed with a trail that didn’t make sense, or it would access some memory mapped device that would then cause a crash. But it wasn’t immediate – the AI ran around for a little while out there before it crashed the system.

--
Wow, thanks for this - the imagery here is great.
I disagree. Reason: I think the problem with Intel is that they are more of a manufacturing company than design company. What I hear from insiders (anyone at Intel care to validate/correct?) is that the company's culture as a whole value their design arm much less than their manufacturing. Their main advantage (also strategy) has always been that they can out manufacture their competition. (ie faster shrink, better yields) Intel does not have a good track record for processor design outside of the x86 CPU space. (and even in that space the P4 is pretty much a failure in terms of design) Looking at their repeated failed attempts at being significant in the graphics space. And then there is Xscale. They had a lot of potential with the StrongARM group when they acquired them from DEC, but they just ended up selling them to Marvell (who is now doing amazing stuff with them). Also how they are now capitalizing on their superior manufacturing capabilities by venturing into producing lower tech products like SSDs. Combine all of that with the notion that the x86 architecture simply does not offer any value on a mobile CPU, (another debate, but one I strongly believe) I really don't think Intel will have anything competitive against ARM "shortly". (Xscale was sold in 2006...)
Possibly This:

"Ask HN: Visual Design for Hackers"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1839022

Found by:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%...
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life
- Carl Zimmer

* This was one of the best science books I've ever read. Zimmer uses e-coli as the primary actor a tour of genomics and history of the big breakthroughs in micro-biology. I'm a developer, but this book was a page turner that really opened my eyes to to how cells operate, perform logic-like functions, and communicate.

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
- Matt Ridley

* Ridley's basic thesis is that specialization and trade are the primary means of the betterment of the human condition, and he has a lot of thought provoking ways of looking at the world that will forever change the way I think about technology and business. A wide ranging and enjoyable read
Linus really can't be used as an example of what normal behavior would be.

Noone's saying it's the only significant benefit, but for a lot of people, it is the overwhelming majority of the benefit of what they do. Programmers live in a privileged bubble compared to most.
I don’t observe that the populations of senior management or famous scientists or leading-edge computer programmers or successful politicians or rock stars are being dominated by people who are results of “Chinese Mother” parenting practices. On the other hand, they do seem to be loading up the top ranks of violinists and pianists.

It's not fair to assume that Chinese American professionals or musicians are products of a "Chinese Mother" upbringing. Chua herself disclaimed that notion when she defined a Chinese Mother as something other than a mother who is Chinese.

Also, consider that there are plenty of impediments to an Asian American becoming a successful politician or entering senior management that have nothing to do with his parents' philosophies.
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Truly touching: http://www.quora.com/Parenting/Is-Amy-Chua-right-when-she-ex...

Though all the Quora responses are worth reading.
The dedicated buttons on my HTC Incredible are just as responsive as the touch screen itself. Seems like a device issue, not an Android issue.
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Knowledge is leverage. Leverage works as interest upon interest. Therefore gradual non-improvement is the same as rapid decline. Loosing 3 percent a year where everybody is standing still is not that different as standing still in a world where everybody is accumulating interest.

Also what I have noticed with myself ( I had a decadent phase in life, moved on and now look on "friends" who stayed where they were) - decadent consumerism might not look as bad when you start doing it. But it erodes your soul it makes you weak and timid. Arm the lumpenproletariat with high tech - and you won't get "a little bit weaker" society - you get idiocracy.

A human to be happy must play hard, work hard and love hard. This is a virtue that most everybody is abandoning these days. I'm not advocating for repression (like China, India or western world of old), I'm advocating that we don't forget a passion in our lives and that we do not fail to show it to our children. Else everything is in vain.
This was a minor plot device in the book Ender's Game, where two super-intelligent children needed to borrow their father's network citizen access to post on the forums about their ideas. Obviously this isn't what the administration is suggesting, but it seems like a dangerous first step. I don't like it.

I'm happy with an optional OpenID-like system for stronger authentication and convenient access to account logins, but the system should be 100% optional. There's no way I'm going to trust anyone with the ability to masquerade as me through a closed system. Imagine using Facebook Connect or Google to log in to your bank. Facebook has no business involving me and my bank. It is between me and my bank only. And there is no reason for me to risk my full, unlimited online identity to a single provider like Facebook or Google. The government also has no business knowing who my bank or email provider of choice are.
you mean, just like at&t forced you to buy since the iphone launch until 3 months ago?
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Excellent point, ssp. Intel is in high-margin business, and it will be hard to reinvent itself when it means slimming the margins.

And I didn't know about Atom/TSMC deal, so thanks for pointing that out: http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2009/03/atom-cant-feed-...
There is no way that the observed behaviour is caused by traffic shaping, as that would require a residential DSL line with a raw upstream bandwidth of roundabout 6GBit/s. (Otherwise it could never fit the initial 700MB/s.)
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They do IMHO.

No their function is not to divine when did Noah leave the ark and how did all those animals and humans repopulate the earth in 4k and something years.

Their job is to ask "stupid" questions. Their job is to analyse the results of science through spiritual and theological lens. In short role of religion in society is same as role of CEO in a company - to provide strategy, vision and guidance. Sadly both are increasingly failing us.

True problem of religions nowadays is not that there is no place for them - but that they outright refuse to re evaluate their positions, instead demanding their rights of old. Just like RIAA, MPAA, etc..,

But indeed that would mean they had to work and be creative - maybe even expose themselves to some risk, but that would be too hard. Better to cling to old birthrights and refuse to cooperate.
It's not my point that there are no other motivations, merely that money is a primary one.
I take issue with the notion of Intel's model being obsolete in the mobile world. Quite the opposite; Intel's business model of treating CPUs as commodity is for market of mature technology, while current mobile model of heavily (and costly) customizing SoCs is one for technology being still insufficient for achieving market goals.

If anything, it's the current mobile model that will go obsolete at some point -- simply because it's costly, both in terms of customizing SoCs, taping out small batches of silicon and customizing software for it. Mobile will shift to commodity components at some point.
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...and they broke up and misused the Alpha design team.
Apology accepted. ;-)

The thing you've failed to realize is the answer you seek is discussed repeatedly here to the point where it is essentially "group-think" BUT it is constantly repeated in a form you might not recognize...

The constantly restated phrase is, "Ideas are worthless."

Considering the above, when you present yourself as an "Idea Guy" then you can guess how you are valued.

Developers have ideas of their own, and quite often, their ideas are more, ummm, developed --or better said, more thought-out in technical terms.

Given the endless stream of posts looking for technical co-founders, the typical offer of "You do all the work, and we get rich" is entirely unacceptable.

In a round about way, I have just implied you are worthless, and for that I apologize. Stating the commonly held beliefs and perspectives very clearly is important even though it is less than polite. Try to look at it from the perspective of a talented developer (with an entrepreneurial streak); he'll ask himself the question, "Why do I need you?"

EDIT: The following link might be enlightening.

http://www.quora.com/I-am-a-creative-guy-with-a-startup-idea...
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I grew up with Asian parents^, and so I think I can safely say that the parenting techniques are at the very least cruel. For example, she makes it a point very early on that she doesn't allow her children to properly socialize with their peers. Education and socialization are not mutually exclusive and it is absolutely vital that you don't don't convince your children otherwise. Then after making it a point to mention this little rule, she never backs it up or defend it. Why doesn't she allow her children to participate in drama or visit with friends? We don't know. One is left to simply presume that perhaps it's because she's on a power trip, enacting some sort of revenge on her children for daring to be a burden on her life.

^technically my parents were quite germanic, but their parenting technique was to a tee what Chua described. "You got a A- in geography?! You need to spend more time studying!" "why are you listening to rock and roll music? you should play cello like your brother!". It's making a big mistake to think that this sort of bad parenting is limited to Asian parents.
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I'm a creative guy with a startup idea. Where can I find a rockstar developer?
- E-mail/calendar/docs: Gmail, Google Calendar/Docs

- Hosting: Slicehost

- Invoicing: CurdBee (http://curdbee.com)

- Analytics: Google Analytics

- Project management: Ta-da list

- File-sharing: Dropbox (http://dropbox.com/)

- Version control: Git (http://git-scm.com/)

- Backups: offsite-backups

- Instant messaging: Google chat
potential counter arguments can be found in daniel pink's interview at econtalk.org

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2010/08/daniel_pink_on.html
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If someone is that concerned about speed, what's wrong with just using a compiled language to begin with?
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For example, she makes it a point very early on that she doesn't allow her children to properly socialize with their peers.

To call this "cruel" in any objective sense (if you were being subjective, OK - that's undebatable opinion) would require a definition of what "proper" is in regards to socialization. Such a definition relates to the values of particular societies and communities given that they form the basis under which socialization occurs.
All of this just reminds me of a picture:
http://i.imgur.com/qhblb.jpg

(I know, I know... this is not reddit...)
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