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I'm honestly not sure it makes furniture cheaper, either.

Here in the UK at least I found IKEA to be about 10-15% more expensive to local furniture stores. And about on par (about 2-5% more expensive) with national chains.

I'm in the process of kitting out my new house and, to take an example of a book case; this is the sort of think I am after: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/S99823013

- IKEA: £160

- Homebase: (2 or 3 units together to make that design) £140

- Local Furniture Store: £130 - £150

- Second Hand: £100 ish

- Self Build: about £85 plus my labour (plus; leaps and bounds better quality)

Off topic note; it's currently half built :D because it's a no brainer really to have built it myself once I sorted out the costings. Highly recommend building custom furniture if you have a bit of practical skill - next up is a decent desk (cost of £200 down to under £100 with self build)
My app was rejected once for violating the HIG. I really missed out on a PR opportunity to write up a big story about how Apple won't accept apps from gay people!

Just because Apple rejects one app does not mean it is a new policy decision. I think these articles, which are, at their core, based on speculation, are frankly dishonest.

Apple does not give reasons for rejections to anyone other than the submitter of the app. Over the last two years we've had dozens of these articles about apples "draconian" policies, often about apps that were rejected for other reasons. Of course the original article is spread around by anti-apple zealots, but when it later comes out that Apple has no such policy, or the app appears in the store after fixing the bug.... the retractions? there are none!

So called "journalists" feel that they can just speculate on a reason and use it to write a sensational story. Linking to them and giving them the attention they seek is gives them the incentive to continue doing this, rather than go out and get good tech stories. This is why tech "journalism" is so often so lowbrow.

On one hand it is a testemant to the integrity of apple and the lack of integrity of the "journalists" who write these hit pieces that Apple doesn't respond. But now we have a generation of android zealots who think that Apple really is "draconian". I had one complete non-techie tell me that I shouldn't write apps for iOS because Apple is draconian. Of course, my experience actually making apps in the app store does not dissuade her perception of what she's heard from her friends and in articles like this.

Apple's policy is laudable, they figure eventually the truth will get out. I hope they are right, but I fear they are wrong. There are still many people who believe there is a defect in the iPhone 4's antenna, for instance.
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Indeed some companies use multi-level shareholdings to avoid scrutiny (warning: I am not a corporate lawyer and corporations law varies remarkably from country to country. Do not rely on this advice.).

Say you have Actual Company, Inc (ACI). ACI can't have more than 500 shareholders or it must go public.

So instead ACI issues only 500 shares. 250, say, are kept by the 2 founders. The other 250 are divided up as the sole assets of 250 other companies (ACI Holdings Number 1, ACI Holdings Number 2 etc), each issuing 500 shares.

This means that in one sense, ACI has only 252 shareholders. In another sense, it has up to 125,000 owners.

I believe Goldman Sachs used something like this tactic for the recent Facebook deal.
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More algorithms and theory. In my experience the first algorithms course you take glosses over a lot of things and outright omits a lot of other (very cool!) things. I also enjoyed compilers and OSes, but I ended up doing high level stuff so I haven't had to care about either since school.

These topics aren't strictly computer science, but I highly recommend studying number theory, abstract algebra, and graph theory.

As far as resources go, I would use CLRS/OpenCourseWare/whatever you can find. I don't think the texts I used to study the above topics were exemplary, so anything you find on them will probably be as good.

Also, this place: http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=Static&d1=tutorials...
A former I-banker of my acquaintance once tried to explain schemes like these to me. There's one call the "Double Dutch Sandwich", involving sending the money on a roundtrip through Holland, then Ireland, then Holland again. Or was it the other way around? Either way, it made me think fondly of PHP spaghetti code.

edit: I got it wrong. There's the "Double Irish" and the "Dutch Sandwich".
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Genius. I used 4 spaces for some time and stopped using them without a conscious reason why - it just felt inconvenient switching between them. But now reading this it becomes clear why - the need to scroll through all spaces and no muscle memory of a needed move to get to specific space have developed over months of trying to use them.

For more than 4 spaces, it could be a grid still, because you have to look at them anyway to actually remember where you need to switch to. For 4, this is a must-have change. So it will be the same grid as used for 9-spaces setup, just without the corner and center blocks.
>>>Since publishers own this game

No, they don't. There is not and never will be an OPEC of books. Publishers did not create the ePub standard. It was all the work of techies and book lovers who pushed for a standard file format. The Big 6 publishers are too busy fighting the future with their price-fixing Agency Model.
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I also read my Kindle books on the iPad, Nexus One and my MeeGo netbook, depending which device I happen to take with me on a trip. This move would make the iPad practically useless for me as a travel computer. Then again, the announced Honeycomb tablets look already quite interesting...

Another slight concern with Kindle is that I'm seeing more and more "this Kindle book is not available in Europe" messages from Amazon. Region coding sucked on DVDs, and sucks even more when you're not even buying physical media.
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There is nothing about the pricing in there I wonder how different is that going compared to MySQL
I think the notion of the average ratio makes little sense. Maybe a geometric mean? I dunno.
Funny that the articles uncited tax number only went back 3 years. What would happen if they went back more? http://www.ctj.org/pdf/walmart041607.pdf
You obviously did not read the Moonlight vs IcedTea issue in Chrome article yesterday ;)
In the UK the way to avoid scrutiny as much as possible is to become a partnership (not an LLP though) - you don't have to report very much but you do have the rather scary joint and several liability.
Should fans of Apple start a campaign of hatred and
dishonesty against android like they have against us?

No need; Gruber is already on the job.
An operating systems course and a compiler course are what would complete your fundamentals. I have no idea how good the OCW courses are on these subjects (or if they even exist at all), but if they sound something like "build your own OS/compiler" then you're probably on the right track.

Bear in mind these two courses will contribute minimally (if at all) to your startup but its a nice to have a basic knowledge of how these two things work.
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Congratulations, you made absolutely the right choice, even if the startup is a total failure.

As someone who has worked with many right-out-of-school CS graduates, I'd strongly suggest you pursue a lot of code writing. I'm sure you'll be doing this at the startup. But spend as much time as you can doing it, and learning from errors in production, and in review.

The real thing that CS programs lack is teaching people how to program. I mean that seriously. They focus on theory, but rarely on actual programming. If your startup does not consume absolutely all of the programming energy you have, then work on a cutting edge open source project on the side as well.

If you wish, there are classes in iTunes university, and you can surely peruse the catalog of the university you left, find the classes you would have taken, and buy the books, or comparable (cheaper) books on the same subjects and study them. I've done this in the past, but found that books targeted at practitioners in the field are generally more effective (and at the same cost or less) than those targeted as textbooks. (Back when I was younger, when I'd be going into a new area and wanted to research it, I'd wander into college bookstores looking for things like machine vision, etc.)

The industry oriented books won't have tests and problem sets for you to do... but you don't need them because you're pursuing this knowledge to help you complete some goal, right? For instance, maybe you want to build a robot that can compete in GPS Magellan and you need computer vision expertise for that? (That's what I did.)

When you are excited about a project, you will go and devour what you nee to learn, and you will learn it much more deeply and fundamentally than any class can teach you.

So, find projects and pursue them.
and the use for this is... what exactly?

I mean, it's interesting, but utterly pointless, and even invasive.

On the other hand, this is facebook photos that are being leaked, it's not as if we expect any privacy on facebook.
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Doing the startup will be an education in and of itself. Just follow the lead of what needs doing. Need to scale? Learn about scaling? Need algorythms? Learn algorythms. Etc.
This video is really, really nice. A must look. What is really incredible is that the "Think" motto of IBM is nearly as old as the company and still very up-to-date. Very few people know how involved is IBM in research in "hard" sciences. This video is a good reminder (As a kid I was lucky to travel around the world following my mother who did a lot of collaboration with IBM in the field of Silicium/Germanium electronics, so I am biased).

The point I liked a lot, especially because quite controversial, a little kid telling: "Patents, patents, patents, ..." (near the year 2000).
We have partnerships here in Australia too, so too the USA I believe. Same scary joint-and-several thing.

Some partnerships go one step further and become Swiss "vereins". Sort of somewhere between an unincorporated association and a legal partnership.
Finish school. Startups will wait. In the meantime, see me re an internship.
>gives an unfair advantage to IKEA over Target, Walmart

Ugh. You correctly note that tax avoidance is an unfair advantage but list among your victims some of the biggest companies in the world. Do you think Walmart is at a disadvantage? They almost certainly avoid more taxes than IKEA (if nothing else, because they make a lot more money).

When Adam Smith wrote about "the invisible" hand, he noted that it would only work if companies weren't allowed to grow too large. Once a company gets big enough it no longer has to participate in the market. Massive tax avoidance is just one of the many ways that companies like Walmart can use their size and power to keep small players out.
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Indeed, this seems to be a sure fire way of getting some attention here lately. Experience some sort of inconsistency in service/support, and quickly write up an "expose" like blog post.
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Small correction: Accenture was incorporated in Bermuda. But moved to Ireland in 2009, again for the tax purposes though!

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I sold a site for $30K, they transfered me the money, I transfered them the domain etc. (after signing a short contract). There was some basic level of trust involved.

As for price, you'll probably get lowball offers and are better off keeping it. That's been my experience with another site. I only got offers in the $10-20K range, and for that, it was better for me to just keep it running.

Unless you find people who run sites with the same subject matter and offer it to them. They should be interested and may offer you a better price.

Feel free to email me personally to discuss offlist :)
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I don't find IKEA cheap at all. If you get their cheap offerings (where the so called "savings" are) it's garbage that will barely last a year. If you get something decent it costs at least as much as any other store or more.
Telling someone that what they choose to work on is not of value is very condescending.
There's an application called Cinch that gives Mac the Win7 window snap behavior--dragging to left or right edge expands window to fill that half of screen, and to top makes it full screen: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cinch/id412529613?mt=12

What is interesting is that it is a paid app, $6.99, and is currently at #15 on the top grossing apps (it was at #11 last week).

Apparently, there is a market for taking the good ideas from Win7 and adding them to the Mac.
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I agree. If you can change or delete comments the code stops working, there's something wrong. It's totally unexpected.
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Do you have any good (online) literature for your position? It seems to me that having money/bartering implies a government no matter how you slice it. I can see potential with some anarchical systems, just not primitivism or ancap.
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> (Can we get something to the HN front page about Skype for iPhone’s terrible behavior of loading all chat messages in chronological order, taking literally half an hour before the app is usable?)

The iPhone app does that too? The Android app doesn't do it until you open a conversation... but it does it every time you switch to that conversation, making it utterly unusable and potentially embarassing!
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I mentioned Walmart because they sell some furniture too, though the article points out that IKEA doesn't really have true competitors. You're right, Walmart has avoided quite a bit of tax, and that would be unfair relative to other big box stores or supermarkets. However, I don't think the magnitude of tax savings is anywhere near that of IKEA running in the guise of a charity.

In any case, I'm certainly not arguing for Walmart. I'm merely pointing out that these tax avoidance schemes lead to unfair competition when not all players have access to the same schemes. It should be a level regulatory environment for everyone.
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I've edited my post to remove that line because I think it was an expression of emotion and over the top. As for Gruber, I really don't like him at all. He kinda represents a lot of the qualities I'm objecting to, as you point out.
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Much like we do with github or basecamp, you can do it all yourself but it costs time, if your time is valuable (monetarily or personally) you can just pay the small fees and get it given to you on a plate. Sure you can get most porn for free, but you have to find it.
In the US this won't avoid the 500 shareholder limit. This came up in the discussion about Goldman's Facebook investment vehicle. The SEC can make a determination about effective shareholders.
> When Adam Smith wrote about "the invisible" hand, he noted that it would only work if companies weren't allowed to grow too large.

Citation? I've read most of Wealth of Nations, and I recall Smith spending a lot of time on monopolies - where the monopoly can constantly undersupply the natural demand, and charge premiums because of it.

But I didn't recall anything about companies becoming too large... in fact, he wrote famous defenses of companies like East India importing, so long as they didn't receive exclusive (monopoly) trade rights. That was one of the larger companies of the day.

But Smith wrote a lot, so I might've missed it. Cite?
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I disagree. If anything, it's school that can wait. Especially considering you can get a decently comprehensive CS education w/o paying mid-5 figures a year in tuition.

Rather than giving all that money away needlessly, spend a fraction of it on room and board and spend the majority of your time teaching yourself. You'll be done way ahead of 4 yrs.

And then jump into the startup world.
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"Because anyone who says they want to "become an entrepreneur" is completely misguided."

Thank you! Being an entrepreneur is not an end, it's a means. I've seen so many articles lately about how you should quit your job and do a startup, even if you don't have a good idea or business sense.

I feel really bad for any customers those businesses draw in, because they are in for some trouble. Even if the business survives (and it's not likely to) then the customers will have to deal with the fact that the business isn't focused on them, it's about 'being an entrepreneur.' Totally wrong.
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In Europe, they're not necessarily cute or even girls. Also, most places don't even have WiFi (at least here in Germany). The only way to be sure is to go to an American franchise such as Starbucks or McDonald's, and only very select cities have a Starbucks. McD's of course is everywhere but those are not exactly places anyone would want to read their emails in.

3G coverage is not ideal (it falls back to basic GPRS or 2G in many locations) but it's enough for getting emails.

I wish phone manufacturers or Apple would offer a PAN solution, a personal network that every device in a person's vicinity could use for net access. Ideally, this would be a mini WiFi or Bluetooth router inside the cell phone that's always on. Of course, such a setup is doable with a lot of hassle with some very specific combination of devices, but it would be really great if it simply worked without painful hacks. Portable 3G routers are a step in the right direction. Unfortunately, they are clunky standalone devices with a very limited battery life...
Porn from 1990 doesn't look as good as porn from 2011. Not only does fashion and look change, but so does the quality of the video.

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Also, if you haven't already, learn functional programming.
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This quote is from the Technology page on the instructure.com website, "In the 1990’s it was Java and in the 2000’s it was PHP and .NET. The platform for Web 2.0 and beyond is Ruby."

Is PHP really considered old technology? FaceBook and a ton of other new and relatively new startups, including fflick.com use PHP. I am working on a startup and I certainly want to stay ahead of the curve with the latest technology; I have decided on PHP—because I am most proficient with this over the others. I know Ruby is like the hot, new girl right now, but that does not necessarily make PHP and Java old technologies. Am I wrong? Must I go after the hot new girl to keep my mojo?
Designers aren't programmers - but who owns the client relationships? There's nothing to stop a programmer from offering design services but more often than not it's the designer who owns the client relationship and shops out work to programmers.

Is this part of the dynamic behind restaurant websites so often sucking badly? (Because the requirements are mainly hashed out between people who mainly relate to how a site looks.)
There are limits to what a government can do. Secrecy matters greatly in conspiracies, my suspicion is that it matters a whole deal less in revolutions. In those the regime has other priorities than chasing some random people who called that number, they are probably not even aware of it.

Many things people in Egypt currently do would probably lead to punishment if they did it all on their own, the mass protects them (and that’s one of the reasons why revolutions can work at all). Even if the regime decides to do something about it they would have to use blunt force and not surgical precision, there are just too many things happening at the same time to deal with all of them individually.

This obviously doesn’t make it absolutely certain that there will be no problems, I just think it’s rather unlikely.