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CEOs of large corporations rarely have anything to do with the details of product development. Steve Jobs may have the title of CEO at Apple, but that's not really what he does. In reality, Tim Cook has already been performing most of the typical tasks of a CEO.

I doubt Apple is looking for the next Steve Jobs. They already have a winning team. Tim Cook (COO) and Peter Oppenheimer (CFO) are great at talking with investors and analysts. Phil Schiller (VP Product Marketing) is great at introducing new products to the public. These are people we know, they were put in those positions by Jobs himself. They've all held those jobs since Apple's Dark Ages (the late 90s), and they were just as responsible for Apple's recovery as Steve Jobs was.
Melbourne I'd expect, the others not so much due to the self-selection factors I mentioned ("If you like Oxford's original 11th century gothic architecture you'll love our 19th century copies of Oxford's 11th century gothic architecture!). If there's significantly more from Sydney than Melbourne then, yes, I'd say something is screwy.
No that is not going to work. Keeping money in the business is called "retained earnings." Only C corporations or regular corporations are allowed to retain earnings. Pass-through entities such as partnerships and S-corporations are required to pass any income to the owners regardless of whether cash or any other form of income is distributed.

If you want to reinvest into the company, then you'd have to pay taxes on the distributed income and then put the after tax money back into the business, which would increase your tax basis in the company. This would allow you to take net operating losses in the future as well as help you if you ever sell the company.

Hope that helps. Keeping money in the bank won't help you in this situation.
Binary to ASCII:

"Let us be thankful, at least, that these dangerous abstractions have allowed us to converse in forms other than the one I am currently using."

http://www.roubaixinteractive.com/PlayGround/Binary_Conversi...
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thanks everyone for the comments, do you have any suggestions on how to get the word out?
Numair is not Parker. But he has every reason to have this "inside" knowledge. Take 10 seconds to google his name and it'll be obvious.
Have multiple projects that are reasonably different. You can then procrastinate by working on other projects before coming back to your current project as procrastination from those.. Works for me anyway.
What kind of exercise have you tried?

I'm more into weight lifting, myself. It's not at all tedious.
Your separation of "neutral" and "impartial" is wrong, particularly in the given context.

OK. Do you have any explanation? Or does your argument consist of only assertion?

Also, Godwin's law - you lose.

You know that Godwin's law was a positive and not a normative statement, right? So what exactly have I lost?

I mean, are you saying I'm wrong to criticize a value system that gives lots of free advertising and social prestige to Holocaust deniers while marginalizing actual experts?
While your intentions were good and the form was creative, the end result does not contribute to the discussion. I up-voted you as I don't take these "fun" comments too seriously, but unfortunately some people do. Plus, it takes up space.
Yeah, westerners never put funny things in their mouths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grill_%28jewelry%29
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I'd like to clarify this argument. This is often a cited "alternative" A national sales tax won't be a simplified cure. Current sales tax laws issued by the states are considered fairly simple. Whatever you buy is taxed at X rate. But, from years of experience in sales tax, it is one of the most complicated areas of taxation that is constantly changing.

Ex: Have you ever wondered why supermarkets are designed the way they are? Tax is the reason why every major supermarket redesigned their layout years ago. There is a landmark case that argues whether a snickers bar is considered food or candy. Two categories with different tax rates. In the end the judge stated that candy is anything sold at the register counter and food is anything held within the isles.'

Simplification is an ideal that never pans out because we're always going to look for the loophole and its our own ingenuity that made the current IRC so complicated. Everything starts out simple until life gets a hold of it.
When Thomas Edison passed, innovation did not come to a halt. Steve Jobs may well recover from his illness, I certainly hope he does, but nevertheless like the rest of us he is not immortal. At some point in the future, and maybe it's even happening now but we don't realize it yet, another innovative genius will come along and change the world. Maybe not at Apple, but somewhere. This is pretty much a guarantee.
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To get a Rhodes scholarship, you don't just have to do well academically, you also need to be an enthusiastic sportsman and participate in a bunch of extracurricular activities -- i.e. be an obsessive CV-builder. And indeed, since the actual cash value of a Rhodes scholarship isn't all that large, the main reason to want one is to get another shiny achievement for your already-extensive CV to impress even more people.

The kind of students who are competitive for Rhodes scholarships are thus exactly the sort of students who do things in order to build up their CVs rather than because they are particularly passionate about them.

A Rhodes scholarship selection committee member complaining that kids nowadays are thoughtless hardworking achievement drones is like a football coach complaining that students nowadays spend too much time in the gym. It may or may not be true in general, but it's obviously true of the subset you're interacting with.
While this particular project seems like a novelty item, I recommend taking a closer look at Daito, one of the artist-hackers mentioned in the article. I enjoyed digging a bit deeper into the works on his site.

http://www.daito.ws/
One might be inclined to say that it's even worse for employees, they average $100,000 [page 13]...if the company survives and if ..etc. And they have no power to negotiate the terms under which their stake gets diluted. Google and Microsoft each minted thousands of millionaires among the rank and file, but those are the exceptions.
"Unfair" by what standard? Why is it unfair to tax two different people the same amount on the same purchases?
Sometimes you have to make a judgement call. Perhaps my judgement was poor, but I'm glad that at least some acknowledge that my intentions weren't as much so!
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Doesn't Jobs often have his name included on patent filings by Apple? That would indicate to me that he's pretty involved in product development.
Just because all humans are intelligent (and rational), from Einstein to the village idiot, and the difference is really minuscule if you think about it, doesn't mean we should stop caring about those minuscule differences amongst ourselves. Calling people stupid doesn't help debate, I'll agree, but sometimes "misguided" doesn't quite cover it and we have to recognize that there are "stupid" people (where stupid only makes sense with humans comparing humans). I'll leave it without argument that "stupidity" should not in general be a desirable state.

I agree with you about the term "rationalist" as a signal. To me it's just saying that "I study the arts of rationality to become better at applying rationality in my life using my conscious mind, rather than letting the unconscious parts of my brain do what they were evolved to do (that is, roughly approximating Bayes' Theorem in inconsistent ways)." I personally don't like to use such labels, it reminds me of people proudly declaring themselves to be Objectivists, Atheists, Christians, etc. I don't care what you think you are, I want to know what you do, and I don't want to have to make guesses and assumptions that can lead debates into dead ends.

Also the terms "rationality" and the like are often abused and overloaded. So we're all on the same page: http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/
The first demo video does show flashing and colors sensitive to music, and the second video shows a large groups' lights staying in sync, though the mechanisms of communication (wireless signals?) aren't clear.
Yeah I found that jarring too. I thought for sure that his counter examples supporting his would be, you know, actual failures.

It doesn't sound like he's really arguing that Groupon isn't here to stay or is not going to be successful, he just is saying its going to lose its sex appeal and have to temper its aggressive discounting. Did anyone think otherwise?
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>"A bus full of hot girls arriving to be used for sex"

At my college the freshmen girls walked more than mile to get to frat houses or apartment parties thrown by older and frequently wealthier students, knowing full well that their hosts weren't giving that beer away as charity. Once you get to "girls in real life are willing go to parties to drink and possibly hook up with guys", it's a short step to going out of their way to party with the more privileged guys.

>The hero hacks one site in one night when drunk and in 2 hours it crashes the network

It was built in one day. It took slightly longer to propagate and get shut-down, but its method of propagation (email lists), massive traffic (though not network-crushingly so), and the end result (Ad board) were accurate. It shouldn't be surprising that the movie compressed the timeline - after all, there's over a year of story told in 2 hours.
Quora will be successful if they can devise an algorithm which does personalized ranking of users and answers. Rank users globally, yes, but also incorporate your upvotes, searches, and page views as features in a correction term to locally rerank for logged in users. This way you see the answers at the top which are valuable to you specifically, ranked in order of your probability of upvote.

The basic math here has been around since Kaltix in 2003. It will need to be tuned for this specific app, but an off the shelf version will be a qualitative leap over Yahoo or Goog answers.

Because unlike Yahoo or Google Answers, Quora has the social graph as a critical piece of ranking infrastructure. That is a huge difference, comparable to search before and after the web, because the credibility of many nontechnical answers depends fundamentally on the identity of the respondents. And unlike Facebook Questions, they have the benefit of complete focus on one area (Q&A).
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While I am largely asking the same thing, the only bit of answer I could find came from the video: "As you can see, the wireframe does expose a lot of the structural aspects of the underlying page, which can be useful for analysis."
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Mcantor, that's a fair question, please see "Why would anyone want to do that?" in my original introduction: http://www.volkside.com/2010/12/introducing-wirify-the-web-a...

Matt1, jMockups sounds cool, I'll have to have another look. We are currently working on OmniGraffle export for Wirify, here's a preview: http://www.volkside.com/2011/01/preview-exporting-wirify-wir...

Thanks everyone for having a look at Wirify, much appreciated! Give me a shout on Twitter if you like: @jopas
Yes, I do think that rationalism is intimately involved with self-doubt, and that many people are wholly unaware of the possibility that others with whom they disagree may be right rather than wrong. But I also think that there is such a thing as truth, and that it would be an error to believe that no one is stupid or acts irrationally.

But possibly I just don't understand your point. Are you arguing against the precepts of LessWrong, or against the case that Kenneth is making showing its limitations? Are you arguing that rationality is (or should be) synonymous with evolutionary fitness rather than truth? That believing things that are factually true can be irrational?

If you're up for watching depressing but incredibly insightful documentaries, I'd recommend "Stevie" (http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Stevie/60027209?trkid=2361...) as one that might change your mind on whether "no one is stupid". It's a brilliant movie of stupid people making their way in the world, with as much grace as they can manage. The scary part for me was that the self-explanations of the (medically) retarded characters vacillate between sounding simplistic and fully aware. I think the rational conclusion would be that it's awfully hard to tell which rung one is standing on, and whether others are above or below it. But I don't think it would be rational to conclude that "everyone's pretty much the same".
Hi zachallaun, please see my response to mcantor below - hope that clarifies a bit.
This article is a bit unbalanced. It begins with discussing both the hardware handling the display and the display itself, but ends up only talking about the former, leaving development of the latter off at CRTs. This doesn't do the subject justice as there have been huge changes in the latter over the last several decades, and a lot of potential for the future.

Modern displays use LCDs, OLEDs, plasma, DLP, e-ink, or other technologies. There have been some pretty astounding improvements in each of these over time, in resolution, pixel density, energy efficiency, etc.
Oh, there are idiotic trends in the west as well. But they have an entirely different flavour to them.

Grills are an ostentatious display of wealth. Ostentatious displays of wealth are severely frowned upon in any culture (or subculture) where wealth is actually common. White people, or Japanese people, or even middle-class black people, would never wear something as tacky as a diamond-studded tooth grill... they'd rather display their wealth via something like a $20,000 watch that only folks with $20,000 watches know is a $20,000 watch.

Now, LEDs aren't expensive, so they don't work as ostentatious displays of wealth. About the only thing they work as is an ostentatious display of your willingness to adopt trends in the full knowledge that they're completely stupid-looking. And that kind of thing may play well in Japan but it won't fly in the west where we're not quite so ironically detached.
I mostly agree with you, though you should be also opened to the possibility that not even Jobs would be able to do with Apple in the next 10 years what He did in the past 10 years.
The future is rarely the present with the volume cranked up to 11, it's a shift in focus and direction.
Interfaces tend to be hard to change, anyway. The more code that relies on them, the harder it is to change them. This includes unit tests. In design, they are supposed to represent the things that aren't anticipated to change anyway, while allowing change in what's hidden behind them. A huge benefit of interfaces not changing is that everyone else who relies on them is safer. One could argue that difficulty in changing interfaces is a net benefit to the platform, as a whole; and this may be one reason why java (harder to change interfaces) has more 3rd party libraries than lisp (easier to change interfaces).

A huge detriment of interfaces, along with other such back-compatibility, is horrible, horrible, inefficient ugly inelegant stupid code. This is the problem that intel's x86 has, windows has, and java has.

It's a bit like "rich people's problems".
I don't think you are addressing the concern that the GP brought up. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty is not an essay about nihilism.

Briefly,

[Mathematics] will be seen as the creation of finite human beings, liable to error in the same way as all other activities in which we indulge. Just as in engineering, mathematicians will have to declare their degree of confidence that certain results are reliable, rather than being able to declare flatly that the proofs are correct.
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I think what the author is looking for and what most top tier students are shooting for are two different things. She's looking for someone who is good at, what my uncle called, dinner conversation. Any dinner topic my uncle could talk for hours on. He had a reasonably well thought out position on anything one was likely to ask at the dinner table.

But most people who excel in college are exceling at going deep on something. Being the world's foremost expert at something. Dinner conversation ability is probably largely unrelated to this. In fact it might be inversely related as I could imagine that many who want to go deep, view the dinner conversation as pointless -- people's minds are made up before they come to the dinner table, and don't change.

If they're really looking for people who can answer those questions, don't look for traditional scholars, look at debaters.
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Tragically I'm pretty sure there are plenty of stupid and obnoxious people who will never wear these.

Many years of experience have taught me that it's often possible to identify the stupid and obnoxious people via their appearance anyway. Unfortunately many years of experience and my mother also taught me not to judge people by their appearances, so I'm not sure what to do now.
>I'll leave it without argument that "stupidity" should not in general be a desirable state.

I'm not saying we should question the concept of stupidity, I'm saying that self-identifying as a rationalist is like self-identifying as a human--that is to say, it's redundant. And if it isn't redundant, then it's elevating your personal rationality above others.
I agree wholeheartedly with SF being pretty difficult to meet women. I was there for six months and had a hell of a time after leaving college. I've since relocated to Seattle to work - and it's been incredibly easy comparatively.

I can't really posit why that is, besides maybe the depressing rain making finding a mate the only relatively common thing to do here. Or, maybe, the women's standards are way lower. Either way, it's easier.
It's the most recent code that's publicly available. I'm aware of the fact that there has not been an Arc update recently.
They've all held those jobs since Apple's Dark Ages (the late 90s)

Oppenheimer was brought in after the backdating scandal, when Fred Anderson was let go. Anderson actually had a big role in saving Apple under Gil Amelio, since he helped arrange a large bond issue which kept Apple from literally running out of money:

The paper also suggested selling convertible debentures, a type of bond, for around $500 million. To help the plan along, Amelio hired Fred Anderson as the new CFO to replace Graziano.

...

Amelio started working with Fred Anderson on preparing Apple's debenture sale. They were working an impossible schedule. Mike Townsend predicted that Apple would be insolvent by April. That left only two months for the sale.

Typically a company's senior executive would travel around the country making presentations to possible buyers for about three weeks and then set a deadline for buying about a month after the last presentation. Not only did Amelio not have that kind of time (if Townsend's predictions were true), he would not be able to leave the company for that long right after he joined it.

http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/gil-amelio-apple.html
> Interfaces tend to be hard to change, anyway...

"taste" matters a lot here imho. starting from a bare minimum set, and growing it organically seems to be one way out of the tar pit.
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"But most people who excel in college are exceling at going deep on something. "

I disagree. Undergraduate education is not about becoming the "world's expert at something". That's for grad school and a doctorate. Undergraduate education should be well-rounded with a broad exposure to many different areas. Then, if the student chooses s/he can specialize and become the "world's expert" at something they came across as an undergrad.
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The OP doesn't say he isn't.
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For me, because they're on the wrong carrier.
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Maybe to analyse the current website's structure against a wireframe concept for the next version?
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He was pretty much on the dot about steel houses and electric trains and flying machines. Fairly accurate about the 'small library in a single volume' but grossly off the mark with:

'Before long it will be an easy matter to convert a truck load of iron bars into as many bars of virgin gold'

Apparently, the greatest inventor of all time had a pretty strong belief in chemical transmutation of metals.
I can see how someone could use it, then! Cheers on the release.
That was intentional. As he could not or did not condense the points of the paper (partly because he didn't personally agree) I did not have anything to work with; as there wasn't a link to the article, I did not have anything to read; as my point was never about mathematical certainty the question of mathematical proofs being true is irrelevant.

As described in your quote, mathematical truth is not the same thing as whether any thought can be true.

Though while I'm here, I'd say that it's some weird ego-thing that humans think they've 'created' math while simultaneously thinking it's flimsy. Math is a property of the universe.
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> "If he supports Global Zero then he couldn't have considered these things."

Millions of pounds of Soviet armor rolling across the Eurasian steppe and into Germany.
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I got curious and decided to test my assertion.

Taking this list as an input:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Australian_Rhodes_scho...

70 entries in total. I excluded 4 entries where the original university is unknown, and 3 where the person did not attend university in Australia, leaving a sample of 63 scholars.

Of the remainders:

Sydney: 13

Melbourne: 17

Adelaide: 15

Queensland: 5

UWA: 8

Tasmania: 5

While this is not a representative sample (it depends on Wikipedian "notability"), it may suggest that I am full of shite.