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Thank you for the video.
Back in the early 90s when portable cellphones were still not particularly common, my uncle used to get his secretary to call him whenever he was in a meeting with a potential client to both make him look busy and, supposedly, important enough to carry such a phone.

Say what you will about the technique but he's now barely 50, retired and buying up woodland like there's no tomorrow..
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Contractors are the lowest scum in the pond in the Government (they all know your making twice what they do). "Real Employees" get treated a little better, but you'll often find the same indifference.
> it also pays the firm for shouldering project, schedule, and employee retention risk

There are some H1B Visa holders who pay into a business entity that sponsors them. When times are good, they pay more. When times are bad, they pay nothing. Since an H1B visa requires a sponsoring company, this is sometimes a safer solution than being (literally, in some cases) an indentured servant of BigCo.
Wouldn't the FBI want to get HBGary's copy anyway? Why wouldn't they expect the torrent to be tainted or incomplete?
If something sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Also, where would I keep all of my books? Not all of them are digitized. To say nothing of the non-digitizable belongings.

Hmm. Perhaps Paul Graham's essay on "Stuff" is germane to this.

Edit: The more I think about it, the more you deserve an upvote.
Looking at the posts per day detail I think it's more like 30 per second with bursts that probably go to twice that, while nighttime is idle depending on timezones.

But I agree it's a fraction of 7k/sec peak for twitter.

However, twitter does not have to parse html, has no plugins to execute or templates, and has a max string length of 140 characters which is trivial.

Each post/comment published on wp.com takes many, many more cpu cycles than twitter.
"The probability that a vendor will speak of <insert popular, easy-to-use software here> dismissively as a 'toy' is inversely related to the quality of the UI on their soft/hardware."

I think that could be said of just about every industry.
Most of my friends that I knew from volunteering have left. Non-profit administration is another high turn over industry. They are always working on the next fund-raising campaign, donor push.
Once you hire over 15 people, you need to start hiring people to manage the HR issues that it brings, and then once you have 20 why you need middle management, and at 40 you need someone to write internal tools and manage hardware etc... then for every 40.... you get the point. Past a small team, employee count snowballs.
If there's a reasonably reputable university nearby, one thing to see is if you can work part-time and go to school part-time (alternatively: see if you can telecommute). Your employer may even be able to help with tuition (time to brush up on those negotiatin' skills).

I'm going back to school next year to pursue an engineering degree (I used to be an English teacher), and will be working through via some of my freelance gigs.

A full courseload still leaves you with at least 20 hours per week to work a job while maintaining a social life, so you're certainly not going to be shackled.

There's a huge jump in psychosocial development that happens sometime in or shortly after the collegiate years, and it's a great place to meet people and to explore, at least for a few years. Ideally, you'll learn quite a bit, too, though that's mostly up to you to decide. Personally, I'd recommend taking a few linguistics courses, as well as a good writing course (rhetoric, if possible, and also narrative).

One thing to remember: if one of them doesn't pan out, you can always go do the other, or do something else. Now is not forever.

Best of luck.
Handling updates to 7000 user accounts per second isn't what makes it hard for twitter. It is the propagation of these updates to a gazillion followers that taxes the system. Their primary overhead is the messaging update to followers. Ashton Kutcher has 6 million followers. Sending instantaneous notifications to all those million twitter clients is what makes it a killer.

TLDR; It is not the vertices in the twitter graph but the number of edges in it that is unprecedented.
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No advice but my sympathies. That really sucks.

What I would do in your shoes - obfuscate the code if possible, iterate rapidly (nobody can execute like you), and move a lot of logic to the backend where nobody can steal your code.
I have been doing this! However – we are still just two founders, so we haven't expanded beyond the 2gb freebie.

Though I use the following structure:

NEWCO:
- DOCS – then dirs Doc, XLS, PDF, NDA, PPT, Legal, Research

- GRAPHICS – All graphic collateral .vsd, .psd, .svg etc.

- IMAGES – Output of graphics files, .png, .jpg

- SITE – All HTML pages created.

Outside of this, I make my Eclipse Workspace in my dropbox folder as well. Then any machine I open eclipse on, everything is as I left it.

—*NOTE: this i proving weird as the Android SDK installs a TON of stuff in the folder. I am still figuring out the best way to do this.
The way the new design constrains the user is what bothers me most. Having a page that scrolls off the screen makes the content seem much more "deep" than it really is. I think they chose this design to appease the tablet crowd.
do both. you will have a TON of free time in college, unless you inundate yourself purposefully. use some of that free time to continue doing part-time work. hell, you might have enough time to do full-time work. i had much more free time in college than i did in high school.

college is only partly about the degree and the job that follows. its a formative time in your life that you shouldn't skip out on.
I agree that Wordpress requires far more CPU time (I run a network of Wordpress blogs).

My figures: 900,000 transactions (500,000 posts + 400,000 comments) / 86,400 seconds per day:

~= 10 transactions per second on average, though like twitter, activity probably has a power law distribution corresponding with US daylight hours.

Reads: 2.3 billion / month
Suppose a 30-day month, that's 86,400*30 or 2,592,000 seconds per month.

2,300,000,000 / 2,592,000 ~= 887 pageviews per second.

I was incorrect by an order of magnitude, though the same uneven traffic patterns caveat applies.
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This is exactly how Yammer has acquired a large percentage of their customers. It's their competitive advantage, and the reason their sales force doesn't largely subsume the rest of the company. The reason it has worked for them is that they gained a lot of momentum from winning TechCrunch50, which caused companies everywhere to try the product. That's not to say they've avoided having a sales force; it's crucial to the company's success.
> Was he really running the contents of two websites on the EC2 instance?

Apparently so, despite the fact that all of the EC2 documentation labels the local disk as "ephemeral."
OpenCV is my favorite Computer Vision (CV) library. http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/

Face detection is a special case of Haar-wavelets, which are essiantially recognitions that can be 'trained' by reinforcing with positive and negative images.

OpenCV comes with some really well pre-trained Haar-wavelets for recognizing faces. http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceDetection
I'm becoming more and more convinced that this is just a troll having a little fun with us. Probably one of the crew from #startups on IRC. I can just see them sitting back snickering and saying "how many times can we post this same crap until the account gets banned?"

Whatever, even if it's real, the guy seems unable or unwilling to actually listen to any of the feedback he's been given already. So there really isn't much left to say.
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I'm really not disagreeing with you. I'm about to buy a second project car, and have an entire library that I like having around. I'm not the hotel guy, but just saying: technically, anybody COULD do it.
If their event sells out in 59 minutes, why don't they raise the price dramatically?
Sure but UPS, Google and Facebook have a lot more than 350 employees.
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Great article, and nobody hates Disney like I do (and I'm going there in a few months...).

They really do excel at that sort of stuff, and the "it's not my fault, but it's my problem" line is really motivating.
As has been pointed out elsewhere on the thread, complexity doesn't scale linearly. It's far easier to write ten sites that each gets 30 qps than it is to write one site that gets 300 qps, and it's easier to write ten sites that get 300 qps than one site that gets 3000 qps.

Twitter's fundamental problem also is a harder one to scale than something like Heroku or Wordpress. For those hosted sites, you can shard easily by host, so that each of the 100,000 Heroku-hosted sites can get its own EC2 instance(s) and behave pretty much independently. You can't do that when the point of your site is that any action might instantly be broadcast to thousands of followers. High-fanout writes are not an easy problem to solve.
You're comparing apples to oranges. At a very minimum, you must adjust for inflation. Most people here, though, are more interested in how much you can get for a dollar today vs in the past.
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Everything remains open source and community editions remain freely available and fully featured. From that perspective, nothing really changes except each will get the best of what the other has to offer.
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I commented on the TC article, but I'll repeat: CouchDB and CouchOne are awesome, and anything that makes them more awesome is very welcomed.

I do sometimes feel like I'm the only one using CouchDB sometimes, though... Hopefully this gets more devs on board with it.
> Social buttons optimization on Mashable

What does this have to do with Mashable? I don't see any references in the article.
Well, I think it is.

If you have 100,000 users on your website, and no way of making money , you're in pretty good position. Some brainstorming and figuring out how to implement ads and you're set.

If you have 1,000 users and a great way of making money, its not that valuable.

Also, users tend to like sites with less ads as opposed to more. Its better to build up your userbase before monetizing it.
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I tend to be the same way, which is why were will be signing an NDA before either side talks specifics about anything.
1965ish. This is where, when Hip Hop was born.

1965-ish? How do figure that? I always had it pegged as the mid '70s, South Bronx.
Ah yes, forgot about the Alpha port of NT. It's a little-known fact that Windows NT ran on non-Intel architectures: besides the Alpha version, there were MIPS and PowerPC ports.
Understand that Google is continuously rewriting their infrastructure to handle increased scale. That's what they have 25k employees for.

Jeff Dean's rule of thumb is that you should build a growth factor of 10 into the design, but any more than that and you will probably have to re-architect anyway. So going from 10,000 to 1 million and 1 million to 100 million are probably roughly equivalent in difficulty.
Go to college. Put all the education and career considerations aside for a moment. College was one of the best times of my life. Go have some great experiences, make friends, go to parties, travel, do crazy shit, and take time to think about the rest of your life and want you want it to be. After that, you'll be working until you retire, and that's something I wouldn't rush into. I've been out of college about 7 years, and never once I have thought, man, I wish I've been working full-time longer. Plus, I made some of my best friends and met my wife while I was in college.

You have no idea in what direction your career will take you, so I wouldn't worry too much about trying to plan for the "long run". A lot of my friends switched careers or went back to school at some point in their 20s. Many people are now making a living off creating iPhone apps, and the iPhone didn't even exist 4 years ago, so there is no way to plan for everything.
Rewriting a web framework from the ground up is so often a trap made alluring by the illusion of repeated code. Could there be a more optimal way of writing UI code? Of course. But a lot of UI code should just be treated for what it is: largely unmaintainable and unextendable, especially in the face of design changes. I'd love to spend a weekend hacking out a sexy, interactive app, but I'm not yet willing to invest 2 years to save a couple days of redundant development. I'll leave that for the companies not worried about making money or do it on the side through an open source project.
With Android apps (and iPhone I presume), it seems that you pay once and automatically get any available updates. I'd guess that would work reasonably well for small utilities, so long as they continue to get new customers.
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I recommend familiarizing yourself with the concept of making people think that treating nonrivalrous goods as rivalrous is a moral imperative.

After all, you wouldn't download happiness.
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Pretty interesting graph. It started growing exponentially in the 90's.
Sorry, I meant discover as in through our bubble's reaching them in the future (ensuring they're at least 100ly away).
Not all opinions are equally valid and worthwhile. In particular, opinions derived from from oversimplifications do not help the conversation and should be downvoted regardless of the stance.
Quite a contrast from the purported Honda "onboarding" process (or lack thereof). They basically let you figure out where you'd be most useful, and no one really tells you what to do. It seems to scale well, I suppose.

A funny thing happened on the way to the solution. Try and picture this. On my first day of work, no one told me what to do. On the second day, the same thing happened, and on the third. That’s as much as I could take. I decided to meet with everyone I was coming in contact with to find out more about their individual talents and personalities, and to find out what was going on. Before I knew it, I was developing a picture of how things really were, and who needed what, and I became creatively involved in defining my own participation in relation to the skills I could bring to the table. In the process of doing this, I had complete access to everyone in the company, from other newlings to the President. Nothing but open cubicles no higher than 3 1/2 feet. I was allowed to learn, interact, and find solutions to every problem and need I recognized. I always found something important to do, and it became natural to provide effective solutions as needed. I am not a very unique individual, but I am effective because I am allowed to be. I also know it may be different for some people, experiencing this kind of freedom. I know that some people are petrified by this kind of freedom, and equate it to abandonment, and it drives them crazy not knowing what to do. I also know that even under the best of circumstances, people become sedate sometimes and settle in to patterns of repetition for false comfort. The answer, then, is to have them all switch places every few years, no matter how well they may be doing their job, because it is just as important to let everyone see their own position from someone else’s position. It also allows for the surprise of finding how much fun change can be when your creativity meets a new challenge. See what you end up with. It’s either this, or that.

More here: http://aditya.sublucid.com/2008/11/20/let-your-employees-fig...
I disagree. Schools do function as low-security prisons, and that is important to society (This point can be disagreed on, but I do not want to make a long post about why this is my stance and, I think, the better one.).

To stop disruption, one should look at streaming by achievement as an option. This is already widely done in High School, and could be expanded to middle school with enough ease. Kids who are overly disruptive will disrupt only other disruptors ( and those who do badly in their classes... these people will be failed, but I look at it as for the greater good.).

Actually, my home province has this- to some extent. It's called the "Knowledge and Employability" program. I don't know much about it, but it seems to have been moderately successful.
And which devices that support Firefox or Chrome actually have accelerometers? It doesn't work on my Froyo phone...
The buttons on the site are broken. The click events are all waiting for page load which is taking 20 seconds due to an unrelated request timeout for a javascript resource from a different domain. Probably some sort of analytics.

Same thing has been caused by ads on pastie.org lately http://pastie.org/1538368

Register your click events BEFORE page load, kiddies.

Especially if you have blocking embedded links to resources that are not in your control.
I organize Dropbox based on access and make folders for each:

Dropbox > MyStartup > Interns (Shared)

Dropbox > MyStartup > Management (Shared)

Dropbox > MyStartup > Entire Team (Shared)

Dropbox > MyStartup > secret_takeover_plans.doc (Not Shared)

Dropbox > MyStartup > Code (Not Shared, Addition to Git)

Dropbox > Personal Stuff
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Getting government rents must be very nice.
FYI, the accelerometer works on a MacBook Pro with Chrome or Firefox as well. I remember when Kris showed me the demo on his Mac, I was like "Wow, you can do that on a normal laptop?"
Something similar happened to me. I graduated in '98 when there was a huge demand for Linux SysAdmin skills. I took the job. It worked out well for me; I was able to establish myself well enough to handle the downturn.

The market right now for IOS devs is a lot like the market for linux sysadmins in 1998. I'd bet money that in five years, IOS devs will be earning less, normalized for skill, (either because IOS loses as a platform, or because more people retrain to become IOS devs and increase supply to meet the demand, one or the other will happen.)

Unless you have a limited-time offer for paid-for college, taking the job (with the option to go back to school if you feel the need or if the market for your current skills tanks) will give you the most options, and likely the highest earnings. Nobody asks me if I went to college.

There will be a cost you need to consider, though.

If you choose not to go to college, you will always be weird. Either you don't go to college and you are the uneducated hick (of the people I interact with day to day, more of them have postgraduate degrees, I think, than have no degree at all.) or you go back to college and you are the old guy for the duration. (which, at least for the few community college classes I've taken for kicks, I found kinda amusing, personally.)

So really, my advice: if you are career-focused, take the job. If you want a "normal" social life? go to college.
I always was thought people were just puffing words when they said that...until one day I had that exact feeling. Trust me, it does exist.

Basically, the feeling is a combination of being built up, and honored, and as a result suddenly having a realization of how little you are.

In this story, a powerful, important person honored someone lower on the totem pole. This person felt honored beyond their deserts -- thus they also felt humbled.
It doesn't only support Firefox and chrome, but my N900 has both and it works fine (though slowly).
None of the students at Promise Academy have supportive fathers or grandfathers?
Is it "picking an instance too small to handle the traffic HN sends"?
the nexus 1/s, probably.
I wouldn't want to see truancy laws abolished, but in many cases they have little effect.

Perhaps, from a certain age, a choice is given ; attend school, and don't disrupt, or end up in some type of system which is far less free than the school system. I'm thinking some type of national service system, in which the kids are away from their home during the week, have freedoms restricted (as in freedom to do what they want after hours) and have extra (skill gaining) tasks to complete outside of regular schooling. The service could be anything from national parks management to military service, at the students choice upon enrolment. The idea would be to locate them away from family, friends and influences, and work with people who demand respect and hard work.

There needs to be a credible threat to the bad behaviour. Getting told off, or threatening to contact the parents has no effect if the parents aren't on board.

I agree that you just don't want to release unmotivated kids onto the streets, bored and with no skills and no future. It's not good for society, it's not good for the student.
The site's right-hand list only scrolls when I use my mouse's scroll wheel. This list has no visible scroll bar (the window's scroll bar has been hijacked to scroll ONLY the left-hand side).

They took the part of the site that should be the primary way to discover what the site has to offer, and turned it into a frustrating mess that behaves in unexpected ways and artificially restrains movement. What better way to minimize the time visitors are willing to spend on your site.
Even the new mobile stuff?
More or less why I got an iPod touch instead of an iPhone. Still have a crappy $10 phone off Ebay.
Your best bet is to contact a patent lawyer. You actually have something here as it's called "prior art". Your product is prior art and they have stepped on you somehow. Let it be loss of revenue etc..

Basically your product predates theirs and you have a case.
Also let the lawyers handle any communication as you may be stepping out of bounds. (let them handle it)

And be happy that someone is copying you, It's a sign of flattery. Plus they have made their Android users as a few marketers for you for free. Every time an Android users comes in contact with a iphone user who appreciates that app they will look for it in the iphone app store.

good luck.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/unsafe-at-any-ai...

tl;dr Cellphones and other electronics are more of a risk than you think
A non-disclosure agreement only prevents them from talking with other people about what they learned from you. It doesn't prevent them from using that information themselves if they choose to be a competitor rather than buy you.
Default Nexus 1 install has a Mobile Webkit browser, which doesn't even get the interactive version.

It works - somewhat - on an iPad - but there's a problem in that tilting the iPad makes the screen rotate and locking the screen seems to disable the tilt events.

Best experience is on a MacBook with Chrome, IMHO.
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