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You are missing it, failing to 'get it', running off in unnecessary directions, and flailing away at irrelevancies.

It's simple, dirt simple: Here the shortest clear explanation: "The hand the rocks the cradle rules the world.".

If you don't like that one, take all the woman in the US at, say, 18. Put each woman into either (A) REALLY wants to have children and be a good mommy and is concentrating on finding a suitable husband and (B) women with less overt interest in being a mommy.

Then, track (A) and (B) over a few generations and see what happens. Is there any doubt in your mind? The women in (A) will have the strong limbs on the tree, and the women in (B) will have weak, sick, or dead limbs on the tree. Then over time, the fraction of women in (A) will increase, and the fraction of women in (B) will decrease. In particular, genes that put women into (A) will increase.

Just what is it about this 'thought experiment' you find difficult to understand?

Here is what should be your first question:

Q. If this thought experiment is correct, then why do we have any women in (B) now?

A. I should leave the answer as an exercise. Here's one piece of historical evidence: Supposedly in year 1800 could take all the women in the US of Western European descent, track their descendants, and by year 1850 discover that their population (of say, just the women) had increased by a factor of four. We're talking 50 years with nearly all the women pregnant nearly all the time.

So, (A) or (B) didn't matter: Due to very strong social, economic, and practical pressures, the women got married, and then the babies 'just came'.

Since then, more and more, (A) and (B) mattered a LOT. So, now women in (B) have the option of concentrating less on motherhood and do and, thus, are pulling their genes out of the gene pool. In a few more generations, what stands to be left is women in (A).

The effect of (B) is already strong and easy to see: In the more industrialized countries, women of Western European descent are having way less than 2.1 children per woman and, thus, are dying out. So, as women in (B) die out, the population can continue to shrink. When about all that is left is women in (A), then the population will stand to increase again. Come back in 100 years and find a LOT of REALLY eager women in (A)!

Your next question should be:

Q. But women in (B) should have reproductive advantage because of their better ability to contribute to the economic strength of the home.

A. Good point, but so far it's not working. I suspect that somehow it won't work well enough before the women in (B) die out.

Complicated it's NOT.
That's not solving the problem, it's avoiding thinking about it. I said you were awake on purpose, it's a condition of the thought experiment; it makes you address what you means.
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I think 15-40% is a good range. Less than that and they feel like they are just an employee with stock options, but more is dangerously close to equal. You want them to always know who's boss :)

I'd also get references without asking. If he claims to play golf with someone big, track them down and see if they say the same. Ask around and see what his friends say. Track record is huge. Make sure the measurable successes match the hype.

I'd say 2-3 years is good to vest. You'll know by then if the business is failing or not. Things could also change if you get investment.

Definitely delay bringing him on board so you can cultivate a friendship and vette his work ethics. Its a lot easier to not hire someone than it is to fire them.I'd say try and spend lots of time together for the next couple months if you just met him. Make him make sacrifices.
On the other hand, you could equally say that Facebook's business is finding a way to exploit people's personal data for profit. They are no better nor worse than any investment bank.

90% of web startups are "finding new ways for people to waste (their employer's) time so we can show them banner ads". Social good? Just sayin'.
I found the book very useful. The idea isn't to give you a deep understanding of the language, it's more along the lines of: introduce some cool concepts that you may not have seen before, and encourage you to do your own thing to learn the language. It also gives a quick introduction with examples to several different programming paradigms that many are unfamiliar with. The Haskell part is not particularly deep either, but it gives you some basics and gets you started.
No. Nowadays, pen-testing is something for entry-level security workers, often using stock tools. The whole "hacking" scene came apart when someone decided to certify "ethical hackers" after someone else decided to fly planes into buildings.
Yep. Financial firms pay good money for a good reason: they need to get some of the smartest people in the world and pay them to do really boring stuff.

Medicine, likewise, pays well for a good reason: they need to get some of the smartest people in the world and pay them to do repetitive and mostly-kinda-yeechy stuff.

Academia is where you get some of the smartest people in the world and let them do stuff they actually want to do. This is why it's the only smart-people profession that doesn't pay very well.
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"who would've thought that having a centralized marketplace with a builtin secure payment mechanism would've created so much value/wealth over such little time"

eBay. Amazon. Valve. Microsoft (XBox Live).

Apple isn't the sole innovator in this area, a lot of businesses have done excellent work in similar veins. Nevertheless, they do deserve a lot of kudos. They helped cement digital music as fully legitimate and accepted by the music industry. They helped push DRM free music. And they've done good work pushing the boundaries, often in the right direction, in mobile phones and apps.
Our old friend "if it's on the Internet, it's public domain" rears its head again:

"For example, if you open a Facebook account and your setting are not set to private, all of that information is in the public domain, it is free for the taking," he told iTnews.
Gruber admits that Apple isn't the same without Jobs. The issues isn't whether Apple can persist in the short term without him — obviously, it can — and it will even continue making handsome profits well into the future.

The question is whether Apple can come up with the next ipod or iphone without him. That, I sincerely doubt.
Is there any literature that might shed some light on this whole process?
More important than the holiday, though, is that Apple announces its quarterly results tomorrow, and they’re expected to be excellent.

I've seen this guy write some pretty stupid things, but this takes the cake.
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More important than the holiday, though, is that Apple announces its quarterly results tomorrow, and they’re expected to be excellent. Some smart analysts are expecting Apple’s actual revenue to beat the consensus estimates by $2 billion.

So what we're saying is that analysts expect the results to be better than analysts expect the results to be?

What if it turns out that the results aren't quite as good as expected? Or that they're better than expected but not as much better than expected as is apparently now expected? What'll that do to the share price?

I should put in some buy orders at $200 just in case...
Another American ignoring the rest of the world: no need to speculate how the news will affect the stock price after the US holiday ends when you can just look how Apple performed in European markets, which were open during the time of the announcement (and reacted immediately with a 7% drop).

Sorry for the rant, but this is the second time I see something like this today, and it pisses me off to no end.
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That must have sucked going into a downhill ride in both work and office expectations. I imagine within three years you were working in some crappy location jammed with developers.

I was lucky. I started work in a major recession after 12 months of searching. Every year was an improvement in both salary, conditions and offices. By the time the bubble came and went I'd seen it all anyway.

Still, good times. I remember having a golf putter beside my desk and engaging in golf competitions with senior management. And my coworkers writing cool multiplayer games instead of actually, you know, writing code that paid bills. Oh there was deadlines and projects and stuff like that.

Another one of my friends was having visa troubles, and had to produce evidence of employment. All he had was a couple of employement documents on a letterhead of a company that didn't exist anymore, and the domain name went to some crazy domain parking company. The INS people were skeptical to say the least when he tried to explain what they did.
What if Google decided to do opt-in tracking from the beginning?
Kind of funny, but as I predicted, not quite as good as tpdsaa.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2106021
What's stupid about it? Or are we just slinging mud because we're an ad agency and that's what any respectable ad agency does?
Thanks for the response, I thought the reality would be much more complicated due to issues of scale.

This is primarily about supporting the back button, and I don't think users expect the latest data when going back through their browser history - generally pages aren't refreshed, and that's not an unusual or unexpected behavior. So you could cache each page state, without worrying about displaying newer tweets, though the caching mechanism itself incurs some nontrivial cost.
There is an inherent conflict between using a dam for drinking water and using it for flood management. That the Wivenhoe was and is used for both is not a surprise, particularly after the droughts leading up to 2008, but the flooding raises serious questions about how sensible that would be in future.

That said, the Wivenhoe in this case did precisely what it was meant to do, and those who operated it did an admirable job under extremely trying circumstances, IMHO. It simply wasn't designed to cope with the volumes of rainfall that occurred, afaict.

I hope the forthcoming inquiry will not focus so much on the smaller-scale "tactical" decisions that led up to the flooding (it will be news to nobody if it turns out some mistakes were made: I'm sure there were), but more on the state's water management strategy as a whole. Unfortunately the news reporting I've seen so far has already tended towards the former.

It's water management strategy that has failed SE Queensland twice in the last few years: first when the water nearly ran out after the drought, and now only two years later there's too much water by half. Neither drought nor flood are strangers to Australia, so half-arsed measures and excuses should not cut it for anybody. Increasingly unstable weather conditions caused by climate change make it even more urgent that we get this right.
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The headline seems to make an assertion about $2B paid to developers.

However, it appears that the $2B number is an asymco estimate. It is not clear how they arrived at this estimate. Does anyone know how the they arrived at the $2B number ?

[edit: Thanks for the explanation, Trotsky. His post didn't mention any download numbers.

However, it looks like he discussed download numbers in a different post. Given those download numbers, his estimates make sense - of course, with all the caveats that you've outlined]
The Queensland Police facebook page http://www.facebook.com/QueenslandPolice is pretty interesting. Nearly everyone I know subscribed. Did a great job keeping people up to date, stopping panic, dispelling rumors, organizing workers. Pretty much the first time in my life I've appreciated Web 2.0 :) (Well, until the mobile towers went down...)
I like to learn new languages, but I end up at this.

What matters more professionally is Frameworks, SDKs, Libraries, etc.

For example I'm not a big fan of C#, or static typing, but Unity's C# (And UnityScript/BooLang) framework is pretty good to be ignored.
Now now, who says they can come up with the next iPod or iPhone even with him?

What other worlds are left for Apple to conquer? Where else in your life can you possibly put an Apple product?

On top of your television? Maybe. The AppleTV is actually a damn good product, but it still hasn't gained much traction. Many folks still aren't quite sure what it does. Heck, I've used one and I'm still not quite sure what it does. I know what it won't do, though, and that's play my DVD collection.

Games consoles? I'm doubtful -- Apple's strength is in making better user interfaces than everyone else, but when you play a game you're at the mercy of the third party developer's interface. (And yes, they already failed at this once).
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First of all, I have no clue where that knee-jerk response came from.

Secondly, I cannot believe that Gruber would state that Apples quarterly report has more importance than a day that remembers a remarkable man. I think Martin Luther King JR day is pretty damn important one. But that`s just me, and my opinion.
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This or Shapado would certainly making prototyping some new Q&A features easier.

If I don't know ruby or python yet, which one would be easier to tinker with?
Maybe (read: very likely) that Apple TV on top of your television will become that game console reasonably soon.
The question is whether Apple can come up with the next ipod or iphone without him. That, I sincerely doubt.

The question is whether Jonathan Ives can come up with the next ipod or iphone without him. That's by no means a certainty, but I don't think it's as doubt-worthy as your statement.

I mean, the guy looks really freaky on promotional videos. Who knows what he could come up with?

(But seriously... Jobs has assembled a top team and put in place the right kind of company dynamic. It may not last for 50 years. It may not even last for 20 years. But it will probably last for 10 years.)
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I think they usually hang out around other, Japanese-related boards. /b/ has little respect for anime or anything in general, and it's almost impossible to organize anything in the huge, fast-moving mess it has become.
Are there really companies in which the CEO don't even control the direction of the company?
Oh, I've already got a whole list of reasons that potential hires shouldn't go work for Facebook. :) But you also need to give a recruit positive reasons to come work for you.
Good point about what the Apple TV won't do - if Apple would bite the bullet and have installed a Blu Ray + DVD player in the apple TV and sold it for twice as much, then I would have purchased that instead of the PS3 this past holiday season. There are reasons for that, and it seems Steve Jobs has issues with the Blu Ray format, not to mention a deep seated interest in promoting downloadable/streaming media.

That said, my gut tells me that Apple isn't done finding markets to zap with their Midas touch (with or without Jobs, but hopefully with Jobs).
I don't think he meant more important than the holiday itself, but more important than the fact that the markets are closed today, with respect to how Apple's stock price fares.
I'm not sure how the question of intellectual property protection (public domain) is relevant to factual information about yourself or another person. Intellectual property doesn't seem as applicable in this situation as does, say, privacy.

Details like your religion, age, hometown, etc. wouldn't be covered by copyright, would they? Nor would they be covered by trademarks or patents or as trade secrets. Correct me if I'm wrong. As for status updates or things like favorite quotations or even favorite movie lists, I suppose I can understand them being considered original creative works which could be coverable by copyright. Of course, I'm generally against intellectual property protection as a whole, so I'm not the best judge.
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Man, if an App store comes to an Apple TV with any kind of decent input device that really would be a gold mine (complete with gold rush for devs).
Looking around the room at mass consumer electronics products which aren't Apple yet:

- Hifi

- Printers

- TVs (being done)

Looking at mass computer categories that aren't really done yet:

- Wearable computers

Granted they're not all likely, or even probable, expansion points for Apple. But if I can think of these in 2 minutes, I'm sure the crack team of product designers at Apple can think of a lot more (before culling most of them and picking the one most sexy option).
Yes, living in a mostly unaffected area I find it a bit hard to connect to the scale of the event, even though it's happening on my doorstep. I can see some damage from where I am (like the river walk), but these pictures were actually very useful to bring home the scale of it.
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The first problem with "The Singularity" is that nobody can actually agree on a definition. For instance:

1. The first comment on this article: The singularity refers to the time in human history when computers first pass the Turing test.

2. Wikipedia: A technological singularity is a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so rapid that it makes the future after the singularity qualitatively different and harder to predict -- hey, y'know what I call the point beyond which the future is hard to predict? I call it "the present".

... and I'm too lazy to keep looking up other definitions, but they're definitely out there.

The second problem with the idea is that some folks seem to have this flawed logical chain in mind:

1. Assume that a human brain can make a computer smarter than itself.

2. In that case, the computer smarter than the human can make a computer smarter than itself, which can in turn make a still smarter computer, and so on, leading to vastly smarter computers very quickly.

This ignores the fact that if we ever do make a computer smarter than a human it will either be via (a) reverse-engineering of the human brain or (b) some kind of evolutionary algorithm. The slightly-smarter computer is then no more capable of building an even-smarter computer than we are, since it also has to fall back on one of these two dull mechanical processes.
Libraries already do lend eBooks, and they do enforce scarcity. You can go today to check out an eBook only to be told that it's not due back for another two weeks.
There are two kinds of execution:

1) building a prototype (which, knowing Mark, I'd say took him at most 2 days)

and

2) sticking with it for several years and making it profitable, through the thick and thin, the emotional roller coaster, and all that.

It took me a year to complete stage (1) and I'm still on stage (2), three years later.

My web app (a casual MMO game) had the same wave of organic growth in the beginning that Mark's had, was mentioned on top blogs in the game industry, played by news anchors on live local TV news half a country away, etc., (this list goes on and on). Yet my site never got drooled over on Hacker News or Tech Crunch (possibly because I never submitted it to either), and I never had all these people telling me how great I am, how awesome my idea was, and sounding so sure that it will make me rich.

My site has 10x more users than threewords.me, been cloned by many developers in various countries around the globe, and still retains the top spot among those competitors. In fact, it seems that I actually invented a new genre of games with my idea (how many people get to say they invented Tetris, FPS, RTS, RPG, or MMO?)

All this, and yet I'm still barely making more from the site than I could be making from working at McDonald's. Yet I persist. It's been my full-time job for the past 3 years (the web app, not McDonalds :)), ever since I parted ways with my well-salaried software engineering job.

If anyone is tempted to call me stupid or lazy for not making millions from my idea, I'll be the first to admit that maybe I am. I didn't do any marketing or emailing Arrington, or any of the like. Instead I've been focused on building what my users want, developing features, fighting fires, and talking to users (many of whom constantly criticize me for not pushing out new feature fast enough).

Not a single real user ever said to me "Wow, this will make you rich," it's always more like "Wow, I LOVE your game! Please add features X, Y, and Z. They are super important! Hope to see X, Y, and Z working soon!"

Therefore, I sometimes think the startup community needs a dose of sanity. Not every tiny app is going to make millions. The web economy seems like a gold rush for many. If threewords.me makes any real money from this sale, it will be due to the exposure it's received to people participating in that gold rush.

In conclusion, I'd like to say that my comments are not intended just for criticism. If any of you think you know how you could make tons of money from threewords.me or from a casual MMO game (that doesn't have any virtual goods to sell), then I hope you can tell us how you would do it, rather than making assumptions that somehow anyone can get rich by building a free app and getting several hundred thousand people to sign up for it.

(P.S. Mark, I think you're a great guy and your app is very nice, so please don't take my comments the wrong way - I'm just trying to add some perspective to this discussion.)
"Your policy response, which can be paraphrased as 'don't build dams, move major cities' is idealogically warped and just wishful thinking."

I could be wrong, but I think he's suggesting not building on the areas of the city which form the flood plain, not the whole city.

We have an accurate record of which areas of the City were flooded in 1974. The areas that flooded recently are a subset of those areas. People were allowed to build in these areas because the Dam was supposed to have mitigated the risk. We could have kept zoning plans in place to deter building in these areas and still had a vibrant city built up around them. More river-front parkland to boot!
This input device is, of course, your iPhone or iPod touch. The decent-ness of said device is questionable, however.

(But, it'd be perfect for Angry Birds TV!)
I suppose, reading into the larger context of the article, that would make sense. Cheers for the clarification.
No--you're misreading him. When he says 'more important than the holiday' he's talking about things that impact Apple's stock price:

"The announcement of his leave was perfectly timed: on a weekday, but a holiday on which the U.S. stock market is closed

More important than the holiday, though, is that Apple announces its quarterly results tomorrow, and they’re expected to be excellent"

See, "more important than the holiday" is referencing Apple's strategy of announcing Jobs' leave on MLK day. Gruber is comparing two things that affect Apple's stock price--announcing on MLK day to avoid a panic, and announcing a day before Apple's Quarterly earnings report, and concluding that the latter tactic is more significant.