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Google Books has a reference from 1914: http://books.google.com/books?id=dEXnAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22the%...

(It's a little ambiguous as to whether or not it refers to actual bugs, but I think the surrounding context makes it unlikely.)

There's also a great reference in a 1915 issue of Automotive Industries:

"Harry Grant drove some of the bugs out of his six-cylinder motor since last week when his best time was 91 miles per hour and covered a lap at a 96-mile an hour clip this afternoon. Haupt's Duesenberg has more speed than it had last ..."

Which you can kinda see at: http://books.google.com/books?ei=1mZGTaePHoW0sAPl4t2vCg&... but Google's restrictions prevent the actual quote from being viewed in context.
Could be quite expensive. Where I live (40kms from Perth, WA, in a semi-rural area) we use this Motorola wireless technology, and the prices are astronomical - $80 for 3GB on peak and 5GB off peak. When we first signed up, we also had major stability issues (connection constantly dropping out, connection hijacked by a hacker for a few months, etc.), although things are looking better now.
When I was still in market research, we used a rate of 150000€ per FTE as as heuristic to convert between number of empolyees and gross revenue whenever one of the numbers was missing. But this number is mostly for businesses that move inventory. Since software startups usually do not have to stockpile luxury cars in the showroom, the number might be too high in this field.
This was very timely - started showing my 7 yr old son on the weekend some basic Ruby. Hadnt heard of Gosu either so will be checking that out.
The difference is described in http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/overv... with:

Unlike traditional relational databases, the App Engine datastore doesn't require data kinds to have a consistent property set (although you can choose to enforce this requirement in your application's code).

Here is what they mean by that. In a traditional relational database every table must have a table definition that specifies all of the columns and column types. In the App Engine it is up to the application to supply an implicit table definition. And there is no enforced consistency. If two applications access the same table, they can put entirely unrelated kinds of objects there. (Or, worse yet, put related objects that are just slightly different. Just to confuse you.)
Thanks a lot -- do you know if you're using a 900Mhz, 2.4 or 5Ghz subscriber unit?

Also, what's the distance from the ISP to you?
Are you 100% sure? Doesn't the whole 'equal opportunities' scheme dictate that you cant ?
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Get a Hong Kong law firm whose focus in Technology, they will be able to provide more details on the jurisdiction of the country. Maybe you want to go through the list of law firms listed with the Law Society of Hong Kong: http://www.hklawsoc.org.hk/pub_e/default.asp
Covestor is more along the lines of disrupting Wall St.
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"You need to build additional pylons." ? * ahem *

>You must construct additional pylons.

You require more Starcrafting. And minerals.
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True but this doesn't mean non-Jewish Israelis are barred from serving in the military or civil service.

True. But there are parts of the military that non-Jewish Israelis are barred from.

Right but if this is practiced in hundreds of countries around the world, it's a moot point.

The fact that many countries discriminate by race doesn't change the fact that it is, in fact, discrimination by race.

Incidentally I strongly doubt that we're talking about hundreds of countries. As of 2006 the UN had 192 member countries. And I know that many of them (eg Canada, England and France) do not have anything resembling the Jewish Right of Return.
> Jobs got burned at NeXT in that he spent a huge amount of money on a highly automated, top of the line, assembly system; then due to under-utilization of that system, was never able to be profitable.

And one of the first things he did when back at apple was... get it out of fab altogether. A job which was in fact given to Tim Cook (widely considered to have done a stellar job at it).
Why were you surprised? 1,000+ person organization on subversion is non-trivial. Is there a compelling reason to move? Do you really need the D in DVCS if you're not really distributed?

But to address your question: my experience moving from Subversion to a DVCS for an organization that's sizable enough to be similar is that Mercurial provides a much shorter path to being basically operational, but that's not saying much.

I don't think the web has decided that Git is the clear winner. You're probably onto something about your engineering team, though. In an org of that size, it's quite likely that the complexity of DVCS will be out o grasp of quite a number of them, so you should definitely be sure that the switch won't totally undermine your operation. Also consider the training. Even if hg syntax is similar svn, it's a fundamentally different thing. If you're really using DVCS for all it's worth, you're probably not going to be on premises with every engineer to facilitate training, so you'll either be flying all over to help them or they're going to need to be able to do it themselves.

If you're not absolutely committed, don't move. If you are committed to switch, you can piggyback on Subversion knowledge to get to an okay place with Mercurial. Git certainly won't make it simpler, but it almost doesn't even matter, so if you prefer it and you're leading, you might as well go with your preference.
I'm not clear on why your made-up number is better than their made-up number, but I agree that even a smaller number of that third category is too many.

Specifically, I'm hesitant to assume that the proportions of the EFF's sample are representative or that they 'scale up' to the number reported by the Inspector General and beyond. The main reason being while the EFF's sample is specific to violations recognized and reported as such, the Inspector General's report is specific to NSLs and not specific to things initially recognized as violations. The later report cites such comparatively minor violations as typos which are likely to be under-represented in the IOB documents, where more serious (and obvious) violations likely over-represented.

That is to say: there may be several thousand additional violations, but the proportion of them which are of the (arguably) more benign classes of clerical mistakes and "overproduction" may be much higher than in the EFF's sample. I think that 20% is very unlikely to be reflective of the (unknown) whole and I think the findings in the Inspector General's report[1] support that.

[1]: http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s0803b/final.pdf
You know, no one's saying this, but I'd just like to point to Douglas Crockford's accomplishment with JSON. Crocker thought of a really bare bones way to represent data that works in a huge number of cases people tried to use XML. XML has not lost, in any way, shape or form, and people will be using it to represent and structure data for a long time to come.

We can just be glad we have such a simple, common data structure before people start writing insanely complex data interchange formats on top of it. You could just as easily write SOAP in JSON.
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The 512Mb is just a typo. Both the ordering of the list and the price make it pretty clear that they meant 512Kb.
FutureAdvisor (YC S10) is addressing several of these - particularly the ones that involve Wall Street taking money in fees from unsophisticated investors.
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Your comments about ArsDigita reminded me of ADUni (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArsDigita_University), which hosted free video lectures of an intensive one-year computer science curriculum. Back in the day I had attempted to download these lectures, but a slow pipe and the large number of lectures / assignments / etc discouraged me from finishing.

Lo and behold, the modern era of youtube and google video has seen the resurrection of these videos. Someone named "Chao Xu" has uploaded (nearly) all of the videos to google. see http://mgccl.com/2008/04/06/aduni-videos-now-on-google-video

(in fact, there's even a course on databases)
"Quora Review" doesn't seem to be related to Quora in any shape or form.
I hadn't heard of the concept of Buxton Index before; it looks like a valuable tool for removing some of the heat from disagreements.
Business school is not about the quantitative skills - those you can pick up in a couple of weeks from a book, if you have any decent proficiency in arithmetic and/or using a spreadsheet. It's about networking and about learning to manage a schedule of incessant busyness.
I don't think founders should concern themselves with fixing the inequities of the world. And I think it's in society's interest to place as little burden as possible on people who make goods or provide services that improve productivity.

I also don't think that you should presume to know anything about what my future tune may be.
I've been meaning to do an Ask HN on this, but since we're sort of on the topic, whats a good way for a technical person to learn the basics of business, especially as it pertains to startups? Is there some good central source or book that could take me from basically getting things conceptually to knowing all of the jargon, etc?
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Indeed surprisingly hard to find a first hand reference.
But http://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22painted+blue%22+expansion
returned link to wikipedia article, which, in turn, links to some meta-document about new C standard. There's also some post on Boost (library) mailing list:
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=macro+%22painted+blue%22+boost
->
http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/01/99264.php

Perhaps I was wrong; perhaps the phrase was in K&R C? Can't find the book online @_@;;
EL films, coils, micro-controllers? MMMmm parts. The "toy surprise" just got a whole lot geekier.
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Military might does not prevent the possibility of democratic revolution. However many pre-conditions are necessary before democratic revolution can happen.

For instance the military response to 1980's events in Poland were much less nasty than the earlier examples because of the economic trouble Poland was in, and its dependence on loans from Western banks. The economic fallout from the regime's attempts to navigate their way through conflicting demands helped set the stage for the events of 1989.

Without that backdrop, 1989 would have turned out very differently. No matter how much the people wanted otherwise.

As for Mubarak, I'd be willing to bet money that it is too late for him. Yes, the army can crack down. But the public images from any attempt to do so will make it unpalatable for Western companies to do business with Egypt for a long enough period of time to recreate his problems.
No idea. This is a really bad ISP who seem to get nothing but complaints - they assume that all their users are really dumb, so their technical FAQ (http://oceanbroadband.net/info/faq.html) states only that they use a proprietary system from Motorola Canopy Wireless. As for the distance from the exchange, I think we are about 10kms away, but once again I'm not entirely sure.
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There's an English version of al jazeera, where the anchors and reporters speak English and broadcast to the English speaking world. I doubt speaking Arabic is a necessity to work there.
The "Polaris semicircle" is an informal description of the arc that the star Polaris made due to the 11 hour exposure. Had it been a 6 hour exposure and he wanted to point out a different star, he might have labeled it as the "HR2742 quarter circle".
>> * Does the type of job matter? For instance, I would imagine that it might be a lot more difficult to build a remote team of investment bankers than it might be to build a remote team of programmers.

>> * Are certain phases of a job easier to handle remotely? For instance, perhaps coming up with an architecture needs to be collocated but the actual process of coding might be more productive if handled remotely. Or perhaps writing a research paper can be handled remotely, but editing it needs to be collocated.

Nitpicking, but I think the 3rd question is invalidating the way the 2nd is phrased. Comparing investment bankers and programmers is difficult to put as apples to apples. Easier to compare investment bankers to architects or analysts to programmers at a detailed level (although admittedly many investment bankers would be their own analysts, just as many programmers would be their own architects). Perhaps the 2nd question would be better phrased as "Does the type of industry matter", rather than "Does the type of job matter".

Here's one anecdote of where it's easy enough for financial guys to have analyst work done by non-colocated people, and still achieve success:
http://www.businessinsider.com/pine-river-bejing-china-beiji...
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With an SSD by default, the 13" MBP should offer a decent boost in performance over the Air, so I think it still has a place with its better upgrade options.

Recall, it's also the best-selling MBP.

I'm hoping they announce the new lineup soon though, been holding off on upgrading my 2006 MBP since November (it's still using a 7200RPM spindle, painful).
With "I'm Feeling Lucky", it becomes the URL shortener I was talking about. Cool.
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"This is a place where entire cities smell of drying fish—an odor not unlike the smell of rotting fish" > What?

I think the author means that you're told that smell is "drying fish" (I assume for eating), but to an outsider it just smells like rotting fish. Sarcastic humor.
That's assuming he's taking money for a full year…

In reality, he's not paying the employees a year's salary upfront, so at this point all he really needs to have in cash is the first couple months' salary.

Imagine that he's going off 6 months, at which point he would reassess the financial situation (whether he needs to raise more money, lay off, or is now making enough profits to pay for the team.)

Just a thought…
They already have native apps for goggles and voice though I don't they, I meant apps that would be affected by this announcement. Reader, etc
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Thanks for your response.

> Do you really need the D in DVCS if you're not really distributed?
What do you mean? I use a DVCS even for my personal projects. Git is so fast at creating a switching branches that I rarely edit on the trunk: I create a branch for every feature/bug and integrate it in when I'm ready. Right now our org encourages devs to work off of trunk simply because creating (and reintegrating) branches can take a few minutes - which isn't a show stopper, but not a lot of fun either.

> the complexity of DVCS will be out of grasp...
Yep, I know. Part of me thinks "wtf - we're a top-notch company - everyone should be smart enough to pick it up". That's a big part of why I'm asking. What does Facebook or Google use internally? Surely they don't pander to the lowest common denominator?
Yet another way to disrupt investment banks. Make every startup owner aware that the size of the "pop" on IPO day is the amount of money that the company failed to get and could have. Furthermore much of that money went to the investment bank that took you public, and that banker's close friends. In short, it is a form of theft.

Luckily there is an easy way to avoid this theft. And that is the Dutch auction IPO.

Note that Wall St really, really hates these. It took them some time to forgive Google for doing one. They result in less work for the investment banker, and avoid the hidden fee of having a first day pop.
At this point Apple is such a big buyer of flash memory that for a supplier to cut them off would mean either cutting production or depressing prices, neither of which is good for them. I'm not sure how different it is for SoCs.
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Where's the motivation for pressing on if there's a certainty of failure i.e. a certainty of your startup not making a profit?

If the motivation comes from an innate desire to learn more about your market, your competitors, etc. then working on a startup begins to look more like academic field research and less like executing a viable business model.

Not to collapse into an argument over semantics, but the very core meaning of the startup concept absolutely rests on the will to survive no matter the odds, a strong desire to succeed and sustain itself as an entity that provides something of value to real customers.

If this is true, then the founders of the startup who got into it only to have a "powerful experience and greater knowledge" would, in essence, be going against the very nature and purpose of a startup.
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On the plus side, the Internet has already dealt a mortal blow to one value-destroying participant: human brokers. (Anyone remember the bad old days where you had to talk to an actual human being to place a stock trade, and would be charged hundreds of dollars for doing so? And they would call you up and give you bad advice to maximize their churn in your account and, hence, their commissions?)

I loved Prosper (crowdsourced P2P loans), which was mentioned. However, the primary barrier to Prosper's success has not been regulation (a somewhat surprising statement, considering they were shut down for securities laws violations for the better part of a year). The primary barrier to Prosper's success is that their product is strictly inferior to credit cards for anyone who can get a credit card, which means you have an adverse selection problem for borrowers -- the only people who apply have either maxxed their cards or would never be given one in the first place. As a result lender returns are terrible -- many lose principal, and a huge majority underperform substantially risk-free investments like T-bills or CDs.

I'd love to see an innovative option for consumer or small business loans, but it has to compete with this deal: up to $15k delivered instantly (or in 2~4 days), 4% transaction fee, 1% interest for 12 months followed by ~15% interest for life. That what Bank of America will offer me -- right now, instantly, no-human-involved-whatsoever -- for a cash advance on my credit card. Could that deal be improved upon? Yes. But the fact that that deal is possible is, and I say this with no hint of exaggeration, a triumphant monument to the success of capitalism. Many of us Prosper lenders thought it would be easy to beat that with a little human touch. We were dead wrong.

Prosper's original model was, basically, I put on a two week dog-and-pony show on their loan auction page, attempting to convince fickle lenders that I am a good credit risk. In return, I get $X,000 less a 1.5% or so fee (can't remember -- it is higher now) deposited in my bank account about four weeks after the day I start the process, at whatever the auction came up with for an interest rate. In my case, it was 12%ish.

I got a Prosper loan, and all participants in it (Prosper, lenders, myself) benefited from it, but that was for the quirky edge case. The average case was murderous to lender returns.
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There are some professions where showing your work is far more effective than trying to describe it – like photography or design, for example. It's usually way cooler as well!
Disagree. When did people lose faith in education? I learned significantly during college in many aspects - sciences, math, politics, philosophy. This occurred both in classes and outside - but usually within the college environment (So I attribute that learning to college itself). Does going to college preclude writing a book or travelling the world? Fuck no. In fact I believe it encourages it. When smart people congregate great things happen.

Maybe the poor taste for college comes from the fact that some people don't use the experience to it's fullest - but guess what? They wouldn't have done that with any of those other techniques either.
I saw this at CES. Some of the more interesting applications the company had in their booth:

* Charge your Tesla simply by driving it on top of a pad in your garage. They claim it's only 7% less efficient than the current plug charger.

* Soup in a self-heating container. Place the container on your inductance charging pad, press a button on the container. The container itself contains a heating element.
Don't worry - people get really used to flashing and screaming. I didn't pay much attention to TV / screens around me a couple of years ago. For about 5 years now, I live without a TV in my home - and I can see the effect. In pubs, I have to sit with my back to the screens, otherwise I can't stop looking every couple of seconds... it flashes, there's stuff happening, I can't have a normal conversation if I see it. Even typical slots machines are way more distracting than they appear...
I've had an integrated google search app for my Nokia E71 for more than 1 year.

http://www.google.com/mobile/nokia-s60/
Maybe its just me, but I have no issue with the size and weight of the 15" MBP (again, this could be because I came from previous larger 15" laptops). But I would love to see the optical drive dropped in place of more battery life....
Oh, and 1920x1080 would be nice. But I doubt that'll happen...
Norway's population is the size of a modest US city. It is not informative to compare a country of 5 million to a country of 307 million. This is always a flaw in the old argument that the United States should be more like Scandinavian country X, but I am yelling into the wind on this topic.

How does the rate of startups in Norway compare to Silicon Valley? I suspect it is much lower. If Silicon Valley's rate of startups were reduced to that of Norway, it would be a loss for the US and for the world.
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