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My impression with masters level coursework is that a lot of the benefit comes from the contacts and networking you can do during the process.

I have a friend who worked with blockbuster while he got a degree in journalism. A year after he finished his degree, he was a regional manager with the company, and being primed to move up again. He started small, and demonstrated a natural ability to handle employees, increase productivity, meet and exceed long-term goals, and otherwise improve the situation of anything he touched in the company.

Perhaps, if you really believe in the practical applicability of the mba coursework, you could try to get a lower-level job while you teach yourself the theory and constantly try to apply it to your position in order to demonstrate practical skill? Eventually you still might need the diploma on your wall, but at a certain point you might be able to get your employer to pay for part of it. I'm not sure how common that is, though

Just a few thoughts
It may seem like a small detail but for me it has to be the Cmd+1, Cmd+2, and so on to switch tabs as in Chrome - I'd like this keybinding to become standardized across tabbed apps. It seems like such a little little little detail but I really really really think it's super intuitive.

I've never understood the able of screen, yet I've seen its benefits championed over and over, could somebody please God for once enlighten me. Thx!
wget commands for all of the books: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=HWnj8hBC
To be clear: the rule doesn't apply to C Corporations because they are taxed differently; it's not an oversight. It's the pass-through taxation structure of S Corporations that make this an issue.
I don't think a framed piece of paper that says "I graduated from The School of Me!" will get anyone anywhere.
Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model
Maybe rant was too strong of a word, but I don't think there much meat to this write up, because there isn't much introspection into why any of these differences are the way they are, it's mainly just pointing them out and favoring one over the other based on familiarity.
i love the irony in reading "We Are People, Not Machines." just as the font-face css loaded and converted the entire page from a human-readable variable-width font to a machine-like fixed-width font.
I don't think this will happen. Adam left because he was marginalized by Zuck and replaced by Bret Taylor as CTO.

Since then, Facebook has come out with Facebook Questions.
If I could get Xcode running on an iPad, I wouldn't need my laptop any longer.

So while this might not be quite self-hosting just yet, I think it's a really cool idea for the future. Some day we'll get there.
And this gets a downvote why ?
Every comparable language has an eval statement or equivalent. And the base64 functions are quite practical have around if you should ever have to ... eh ... decode or encode in base64. The problem here is not with PHP, but with naïve users installing software from a dubious source.
If you're an iOS developer, you NEED TestFlight. It makes the process of sending betas, client demos, really anything you'd use an adhoc build for, so much easier. I use it almost every day, and I can't count how many frustrating hours it has saved me.

(Not a paid advertisement, I just really love TestFlight this much, I promise!)
So then as a small Sub-S owner (wife and me), I would have to pay FICA and Medicare on the money spent on health care insurance, disability insurance, etc., which you as a W-2 employee do not pay payroll taxes on.

In the end, the payroll tax savings are not that great for a small Sub-S. And as you get older, toward retirement, if you pay yourself too low, you take a big hit on SSA benefit payments (which are based on your latest 40 qtrs).

The biggest bang for the PIA effort is if to can write off a vehicle purchase through a Section 179 deduction, and various other hardware purchases.
That's fair. But then did they deserve recognition for their "technological achievement" in this year's crunchies?
Sivers,

I'm in the process of doing this exact thing myself. I'm creating on average 5 training videos a day since my business is pretty much all web and information based.

I've already started being a lot more productive. One thing that I hadn't thought of was having them create the training themselves.

The first draft of these videos are fairly crude as it's mostly a brain dump and I'm figuring out the best way to explain what is in my head. This means sometimes I spend 15-20 mins to create a 5 minute video or 2 hrs to create a 22 min one (example from yesterday) when you take into account retakes and editing.

I could just create a crude one and just have them create the clean version after they learn it. It would save me at least an hour a day. Not too shabby. Thanks for that.

Mel
Respectfully --- I like you and your comments, even though our politics couldn't be more different --- you should get slammed for this analysis. You're muddying the waters and you know it.

The prevailing market wages for beauticians and mechanics are so low that that benefit of evading FICA is marginal. S-Corp owners are rarely audited period, but here you ask us to consider that enforcement of the tax code might focus on them. Of course it doesn't.

Moreover, you've conjured up this issue of income flexibility, the idea that feast-or-famine will cause people to need irregular salaries. But that's not an issue at all. You can pay yourself an irregular salary. Just make sure your quarterly estimated tax payments treat most of it as payroll. The only time this S-Corp rule becomes an issue is when you explicitly invoke it to avoid FICA. Don't do that.

It is not difficult to avoid the problem this article talks about: unless your salary approaches the FICA cap (last year it was just shy of 100k), don't pay yourself a significant fraction of your total income in distros. What makes this a particularly easy rule of thumb to follow is that it's exactly what you would do anyways if you didn't know about the S-Corp loophole.
Hopefully someone will help you out with some rails contracting.

Are you getting the boot from you're parent's place? (i.e., $2500 live on own funds)
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I don't think Adam would want to be bought back by Facebook and actually stay there for any significant period of time.

For the right amount of money, he could stay for 3 years, the avg post-acquisition lock-in period. It'd be a win-win for all: the next three years are super critical for fb and if they can lock-in a guy like Adam, it'll be well worth the acquisition.
The tax code already goes way, way out of its way to make it easy to pay for health insurance; get a high-deductable plan and build an HSA. It's what you should be doing anyways, even if you don't care about taxes.

The fact of the matter is, as a member of the workforce, you owe FICA on your compensation. This isn't a subject of dispute. The IRS says you do, the courts say you do, your accountants will say you do. This issue comes up on HN roughly once a year, and the story has never changed.
A positive side effect of regularly reading good academic papers (or books) is that fluffy blog posts etc. are, in contrast, readily perceived as vacuous, and are thus easily ignored. [To be clear, the present blog post is a good one: it makes a good point, and is no longer than it ought to be.]
Despite not knowing much Perl, seeing Given/When being used as executable code is beautiful.

It's almost like someone took Gherkin (the Cucumber BDD parser) and got it working inline.
The ONLY Japanese friends I have on Facebook are entrepreneurs and biz professionals. Pretty much lines up with this article if you ask me.
Adam will return because it will be financially rewarding. Notice even when he left, he only did so after he had fully vested.

He'll get a new vesting clock with the acquisition and all will be good.
> There are practical limits to the scalability of this customer acquisition method.

:D
The use case for this is for those things the shell cannot autocomplete. For example, you might want to get a directory listing with ls and then operate on one of the filenames that it outputs. You can retype the filename, which is error-prone, copy-paste it with the mouse (which takes your hands off the keyboard), or type the first few letters and autocomplete. Autocomplete is by far the fastest way to do this.
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I think there's a lot of smoke being blown about the "fair market salary" thing, as if the IRS was capriciously planning the US economy during audits. It seems to me --- and I'm prepared to be wrong here --- that the deal is simple: look at your quarterly estimated payments, add up all your income, and if it looks like you're getting a significant break on FICA because of the way you've structured your income, fix it: there's no free lunch.
Interesting that Abrams invested in Lotus Vodka...

Did they make it through their FDA struggle? The FDA was shutting them down due to the caffeine they had in the drink, even though a vodka redbull had N times the caffeine that Lotus had.
HTTP KeepAlive Considered (Sometimes) Harmful
I updated the FAQ to talk about this. You should set background=dark or background=light in your .vimrc.
I don't know about China or Brazil, but India has done pretty well in fighting corruption lately. Of course, there's still a long way to go, but the progress so far is encouraging.
It's not limited to Nigeria, either. I experienced the same frustrating roadblocks while trying to develop websites on an East African island. (A Small Orange treated me with particular injustice based on my location and I will never get the bad taste out of my mouth when I see their name.)

However, I can't offer a better solution than taking a civil approach to vetting/rejection in case the customer is a real, innocent human being. And that doesn't seem like much of a solution.
Regex support is coming. For now, mouseless copy-paste is done with cmd-f to find, then tab or shift-tab to expand the selection.
From my perspective, most referral bonuses aren't big enough to make it worth my while to try to get a friend in the door. When I know that my referral saves them $20k on a headhunter fee, getting < 10% of that rubs me the same way a nickel-an-hour raise would.
XKCD is never obligatory.

Seriously, why is anyone "obligated" to post a comic that mentions Python, but adds nothing of substance, and isn't even funny? (http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+%...)
There is so much "waste motion" expended in trying to game the tax code in so many situations... what could creative people achieve in that time if they didn't spend it that way. We need a vastly simplified income tax code... I'm talking throw it all out and start from scratch. Or replace it with a national sales tax, rebating some amount to make it less regressive.
Do you script your dialog or roll free?
Background CPU utilization is much lower in iTerm2 (though still not quite 0, I'm working on it). And the next version will have support for controlling the thickness of antialiased text, which should resolve some complaints about font rendering.
Derek, you've been a huge inspiration for me, but I remember hearing you say at a conference that your employees started to hate you a while after working remotely -- to the point that you shutoff the website for a few hours to realize you needed to sell the company.

Do you have any thoughts on what can be done to keep rappore up amongst employees in the office while still working remotely?

NOTE: sorry I don't remember where you said it, might've been towards the end of your lessconf presentation http://b.lesseverything.com/2010/2/3/derek-sivers-speaks-at-...
Of course not, for programs that don't provide at least readline capabilities, I suggest `rlwrap`.
One of the biggest differences from a C style switch/case is that you can use regular expressions and a few other niceties in each of the when() clauses. if you're comparing it to the older Switch module then the biggest difference is that you're not likely to want to shoot the author of the module. Switch being a source filter can be very dangerous (not because it's a security risk but because combining them can cause all kinds of heisenbugs)
Hidden features in a programming language? Granted, most of these aren't "hidden", but they're nonobvious because the language is incredibly complex and it's difficult to predict from first principles that any of these things would actually work.

Long ago, a rule of programming language design was handed down by the great old hackers, but it has been forgotten and much needless effort has been spent as a result. It's time to remind language designers of the rule again:

"Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary."
would this not make it much easier for malicious 3rd parties to monitor where music is being shared?
This is a very inspiring story. Thanks for sharing.

Would you mind writing a blog post explaining how you got started? You mentioned you went to the library and read books. Which books? Which ones did you start with? What knowledge did you have going in and what are some of the basics that you had to learn and then where did you go from there?
This implies that if you simplified the tax code, people would stop gaming it. The opposite is probably true; the simpler you made the tax code, the more accessible tax games would be to average taxpayers.
Ah, come on.

The only concrete charge you bring forth here is to the practise of using string concatenation for sql parameters. Since v. 5.1 (Which is something like 5 years old .. in Internetyears, that's one century), PDO has been the default db-access layer, and it supports bound parameters.

Oh, and I've seen plenty of unescaped string concatenation in Rails apps too. It's a developer issue - not a language issue.
Don't Sacrifice Security on Mobile Devices
What a great idea. Thanks
It's certainly something that could be done, but also something that shouldn't be done. You would have to make modifications to every possible shell the user might want to use, and these would only be a feature usable in a very select few terminal emulators. It creates way more work because, in short, it's a violation of the Unix design philosophy.

EDIT: The way you'd do this is to provide additional functionality to the shell, not to the terminal.
I upvoted you; you clearly know more about taxes than me. However, let me chime in again here and say that the feast-or-famine thing seems overblown. The IRS isn't dinging you for miscategorizing income; it's dinging you for underpaying taxes. You can make your income as irregular as you'd like, as long as you end up paying what you owe.
Live relatively cheaply and save. If you don't find something else before this revenue stream starts to dry up, you will at least have savings with which to fund the incredible burst of energy/motivation you feel when things do start to dry up! (Said lightly, but something to think seriously about doing.)

Don't skimp on experience, though. Keep finding more of it, until the next thing clicks. (Wherever that might be. Maybe you'll find the next great cookie recipe. Experience (experiences) come in all shapes and sizes.)
"The use case for this is for those things the shell cannot autocomplete."

I think you meant terminal emulator.
Pretty freaking cool! I'm a tea lover and this might just be the catalyst I need to start buying online.

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This is more of an index than a search engine though.
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I don't know about you guys, but I don't put a whole lot of stock in the TIOBE methodology. I think it gives - at best - a very vague indication of the relative popularity of these languages. To the point that, IMO, a 1.12% year over year change is essentially meaningless.
I don't understand what "Posterous for support" means. Posterous is a blog, how can I use that for support? Also, how does this autoupdate? There's nothing on the front page about it :/
First draft is always free roll. For 2nd (and usually final draft), I create an outline which I use as a visual inside the video itself. This part is just inside Textmate with the font size increased to like 20px or something gigantic. The narration is always on the roll but I usually remember the phrasing from the first draft and only tweak what needs changing.
Ask HN: Anyone on Hacker News from Pakistan?
I have been using hacker news for a while now. I have seen a lot of Indians, but i havent seen any Paksitani on HN?
I honestly think the current tech bubble will be sunk by how overly picky most startups are these days about hiring
Have you ever heard someone say that they "love" an Apple product?
The difference is that Perl got its good features from non-Lisp hackers that copied Lisp. Python got its good features directly from Lisp hackers.

I am quite certain of this because I doubt there are any Lisp hackers out there that would contribute to a language that has a periodic table of unreadable operators

http://glyphic.s3.amazonaws.com/ozone/mark/periodic/Periodic...
Sounds like a great idea, but I'm always wary of businesses whose tagline is "Like X, but for Y".

Not going to start a business and say "Like LinkedIn, but for dental hygienists".
Motherhood and Apple Pie
You are not alone! Indeed, I think this is a key issue for all of us to address as globalization becomes more and more of a reality and degrees become less credible predictors of competency. Basically, we think we need a sort of reputation system that scales globally as a solution to this problem. Here are the key components we launched:

-CV/Resume display

-Recommendations from trusted others

-Work display (examples that illustrate your capabilities)

-Transcript that highlights courses completed.

-Reputation points (modeled after HN)

We see this as a crucial element to the future of education and believe that it will become significantly more important as education becomes increasingly open and free. We've posted on it here: http://ocwconsortium.org/community/blog/2010/09/15/certifica.... You can also see a demo of our solution here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7LbSnAG-5s
Hundreds? Maybe in small claims court. If you are talking about more significant amounts, plan on at least $5 - 10K in fees just to get in front of a judge.
If Zuck thought Adam was valuable, he would have given him an incentive to stay instead of replacing his position with a newcomer and putting him in a position where he would likely leave the company.
Perl is terse, and fast. The speed difference between perl and python might mean peanuts these days, but it's still true more often than not. Perl programs kick off far faster for instance (`time perl < /dev/null` `time python < /dev/null`) which can become important in some (not so hard to imagine) situations.

Perl also functions far better as a systems scripting language. Compare filtering a perl string through a Unix filter (perhaps an Awk program, another perl program, whatever) to the same thing in python. The difference is night-and-day.
Respect.

A man as impressive and significant as Gandhi, and people can't be arsed to get his name right?
There's another reason to read their papers, which I describe in "How to get your Professors’ Attention — along with Coaching or Mentoring" (http://jseliger.com/2010/10/02/how-to-get-your-professors%E2...): you want to signal to your professors that you're worth investing in. Most people aren't, and one way to distinguish yourself is to read their work, since the majority of students—even those who say they will—won't.
The website advertises code suggestion and some other features, but the demo video just shows something that any text editor application could do. I think you might want to revisit it.
These aren't tech startups: these are web startups. Web startups' main value is the experience, but until they have to scale there's not much value there. Early Facebook, from a technology side, is just a CRUD app that anybody could have written. The value was in the timing, execution, and market.

Tesla motors is a technology startup: they're doing something that nobody has done before with technology. Putting something like that in the same categorization as Facebook is an insult to the engineering challenges Tesla faced from day one.

Note: Of course Facebook now has a lot of technology, because they're scaling a website to be used by the entire world, but I'm talking about early-stage startups.
The problem is that by definition, people will not go to Qwiki for long-tail searches (because they won't have good content on them). And long-tail, specific, targeted searches/users is where the money is for sponsored links.
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Sure. I made a bad decision using this way of explaining an idea. Sure wont do it again. Here's a simple flow from your customer's perspective.

- goes to your website

- Search's your help page, if cant find it, email you

- You get an email, you respond to it, customer is notified

- IF you forward that email to a special cool email which we give you, it's published on your support page(which is embeddable to your website).

- Next person searching for this question doeesnt have to email you as they're problem's solved!
It's an interesting story, but here's a better link: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/21/pearlman.online.civili...

See this also: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/01/21/jeff-pearlman-o...
I actually like it and it feel it has some legs. In an era of TL;DR (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tl;dr),it seems to be a good way to get a bunch of trivial information really fast.
The audience here may not be the target market. We spend a lot more time reading content on the www pretty intensely (well I do anyway), but a 2 minute presentation on a subject I am casually interested in seems worthwhile.
I definitely agree with you. I made a big mistake using this annotation for my idea, won't ever happen again, as it's really not that similar to posterous.

That being said, please look at my response to StavrosK for a quick overview of a simple user story ... just in case you're wondering.
They've done this before, hyping up some secret "ultimate piracy tool" based on relevant news, but turning out to be nothing. I'm a little skeptical of musicbay actually turning out to be anything.
Moving from Java to Scala - One year later...
I'm pretty happy to not see PDFs anymore -- especially for ebooks.

I can easily convert these to PDFs, but I can actually read them on my Kindle or iPad. I can't do that the other way around from PDF (though I technically can read a PDF on either, it's a far less pleasant experience).
http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-reasons-for-the-decline-of...
I respectfully disagree. We're not talking bananas and sugar, we're talking US companies being unwilling to make the effort to sell to people in other countries.

I worked on Terespondo, a search advertising company focussed on SA from 2002-ish to 2006. We were thirty dorks who happened to speak the language, and we captured 65% of a continent-wide market. Why?

- MS AdCenter didn't get multilingual support until 2008 or so.

- Google Adwords required a US credit card until 2004 or 5.

- Overture (Yahoo) were idiots.

It's gotten much better in the last ten years.