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Keith, I checked out your blog. I found out you're a 20 year old first time entrepreneur who got kicked out of military school and began learning PHP/MySQL. I'm glad you're learning, I think you have some huge misconceptions about the internet space. Here are a few things I noticed you writing about:

- Renaming your company to Jana. That shit doesn't matter. Nobody cares about what your company is named. The only thing that matters is that you build something people want.

- Building a social network to compete with Flickr: start smaller, you haven't launched a product before.

- Looking for patent lawyers: You don't need a patent for anything.

- Expecting Googlers and Facebookers to work with you: These are the elite of our industry, they don't go joining people who have no experience putting out a product ever. Be realistic, find someone to work with whose on your level.

Your blog really shows how new you are to this. You seem to think that all the superficial things matter, but they don't. You talk a big game, but anyone with even a bit of experience can see right through to your inexperience. You said you were making $200/day doing something, I hope thats true; use that to scale up and leverage into something more substantial.

You also seem obsessed with money and getting rich; I think you need to look deep inside yourself and see if money is what would truly make you happy. So good luck, keep hustling, but stop wasting your time on bullshit like this. No one can do this for you, you have to do it for yourself.
I'd guess that's a HH:MM:SS display, and we're not seeing the whole thing.
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Visit the Universities and walk around campus. If you know what you will be studying, go visit with some of the faculty. People are generally friendly and open. Both UC and Stanford have open lectures, for example, the Stanford EE Computer Systems Colloquium, http://ee380.stanford.edu. Check out the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View and Noisebridge in San Francisco. Take a look at http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/ for an ongoing program of people doing strange things with electricity.

There are lots and lots of things to do in the Bay Area. There's the wine country to the north, Big Sur, Monterey, and Carmel to the south. Don't miss the Exploratorium and the Computer History Museum. One of my favorites is the SF Waterfront. If you have an iPhone, there is an App for that: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/san-fran-waterfront/id4075675... that will guide your tour.
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Beautifully put. The knack should be a means or a by-product, not an end.

I think the main thing not to forget is that although making money is what determines a company's survival, that's not what determines its value.

Carl Sagan usually puts things in perspective for me :)
I think the knack for getting money is probably entirely based on drive and conviction. I think it's a personality trait. Despite having several business ideas, I find that I just don't have the drive to get them going. I want to get those business ideas off the ground, but I have a hard time getting past the planning stages or putting in more than some minimum effort.

I usually find myself distracted by ridiculous things like TV or video games. I also tend to talk myself out of things saying I don't have the skills, or the contacts, or don't know how to get started, or don't know enough about the industry.

I admire the real entrepreneurs who have the drive to get their businesses going and I wish I had it. Hopefully it's a skill one can learn.
Nice to see the progress. Chrome OS is clearly Google taking Apple's "it just works" playbook and applying it to their strengths.
All good info, except I think the "(most) places" overstates how "gritty" the East Bay is. There are more poor neighborhoods than on the peninsula and valley, yes, but also plenty of everything else as well – it's expansive and diverse in every dimension.

(The areas a Berkeley student is likely to live are more urban/dense than many a suburban – or Australian – newcomer might be familiar with, but still far from 'inner-city' conditions. The prevalence of panhandlers/streetdwellers is likely to be the most notable 'grittiness', in SF/Berkeley/Oakland, for people who haven't seen it before.)
From my brief reading, this paper essentially deals with solving an information asymmetry. The males don't know if the females are willing to mate, and the females don't know if the males intend to stay around. Thus, gifts are used as signals that indicate, through a game-theoretic mechanism, the unknown values.

It's strange, then, that the paper doesn't look to the field of information asymmetry in economics, which is a fairly well-developed field at this point and more or less addresses all of the issues considered in this paper. Signaling is well-known as an approach to solving information asymmetries (a second approach is warranties).
The lack of mention of SNI is odd ... like the author doesn't know what they're talking about.

Most of the latter part is FUD.

One real problem that is encountered when moving to terminating SSL on many machines, instead of a single LB, is the problem of SSL session resumes. When the LB terminates all SSL on a single VIP, it has an SSL session cache and can resume with clients. If you make that LB DSR to servers behind it for SSL, they are going to have local session caches only. Odds are subsequent connections that try to resume the SSL session are going to map to a different machine, and without a distributed SSL session cache, the resume will fail.

We saw the ballpark of ~40-50% of SSL sessions were resumes at $BIG_INTERNET_COMPANY
Upvoted for the suggestion of OKCupid as a short-term housing solution, I'd never heard that before and it made me chuckle. For more formal but still person-to-person accomodations, try AirBNB or Craigslist. :)
Also of note is that NIST recommends ephemeral Diffie-Hellman - not RSA - for key exchange

For the exact same reason this post is written, because RSA keys do not scale linearly and become "expensive".

I honestly couldn't get through the rest of the article, if you don't think securing information is a high priority, then you probably work for gawker.
The only stuff I would consider paying for would be those great long investigative articles that magazines like the atlantic or vanity fair do. Normal shortish news articles have become a commodity that is best monetised by advertising. If traditional newspapers can't make a dollar there online leave it to the blog style sites like tech crunch and go after the real substance.
> I admire the real entrepreneurs who have the drive to get their businesses going and I wish I had it. Hopefully it's a skill one can learn.

Pretty sure it's a skill/skillset and can be learned, yeah. I think the key is incremental progress + celebrating even small victories. I've pissed away tons of time on surfing the internet or video games, but improved by looking to scale it down and then celebrating when getting there even a little bit.

I was just reading this, it's relevant:

http://sivers.org/book/TalentCode

Look to do whatever small action gets you a little closer, and then celebrate when you get it done. Then repeat. I find the celebrating to really help, since big changes take a long time and you do suffer a lot of that time - if it's for a far-distant payoff, it's harder to stick with it. You can bring the payoff closer by celebrating every time you do things even a little more correct. Do whatever little step you can do and complete and then celebrate a little. Feel free to email me if I can help at all, or you've got specific questions, or you want to brainstorm a little on good next steps to take and complete.
Yeah really.

And what does it say about the authors that they conclude that it's better to give women expensive worthless gifts to deter 'gold-diggers'? Hold on a sec, I'm just going to check with my SO to get her perspectives on that ...

UPDATE: She says her favorite gifts were my poems -- not expensive at all. And she really liked a watch I gave her: relatively expensive, and useful, and she still has it 20 years later. Shoot. I hope she's not a gold-digger.
I can summarize this article thusly:

A mountebank promoting sociopathic behavior.

Charming.
This applicant I suppose. What about the next 50? I'd grow REALLY tired of trying to parse through all of it.
They had no remorse for the detrimental outcomes they brought upon those they stole from... no compassion whatsoever.

Sounds like they were simply psychopaths, hence lacking most emotion. It seems like that emotion/empathy was selected for in our evolutionary history (or perhaps it's just a side-effect of something else, don't know), so I don't think psychopathic behavior could possibly be characterized as darwinism.
I don't know, but I would assume that they're one of the people who don't think that what Bing did is a big deal. If I understand the arguments properly, most either believe that the clickstream data belongs to the user (who gave it away), or they believe that you haven't actually proven that they're singling out Google in their clickstream data.

Anyhow, I've already posted in this story how anyone who wants to could go do their own experiment (it appears that Bing's data isn't too hard to fake, that goes double for anyone who can reverse engineer the toolbar). Similarly, I'm not convinced that Bing doing this is going to ruin search any time soon, mostly because I can see spammers/blackhat SEO types renting botnets to feed Bing all the bogus clickstream data they want.

It appears to be a simple http request with some time zones, link text, and an identifier or two that can be harvested from actual toolbars. If they don't bother to spam them, it's because they believe that Bing is irrelevant. And when I say "irrelevant" I mean "even less relevant than a low-traffic wiki for a free game that's currently under a massive assault from spambots."

Which, incidentally, might be one good reason for your team to look more at keeping wiki-spam out of your index. Some spam results from that wiki (in spite of having rel=no-follow) were seen in Google's index and stayed there until the admins caught on and cleaned things up.
Does anyone actually use SNI? Looked into it but browser support would exclude ANY IE version on Windows XP which is pretty significant. Android and BB browsers also don't support it.
Edit: ./firefox/<profile_name>/chrome/userContent.css

a[rel] { background-color: #ff00ff !important; }

The above will change any anchor with any 'rel' attribute, but if you want to get fancy by only modifying anchors with 'rel' attribute having 'nofollow' then you'd need to realize rel is a space separated list.

a[rel~="nofollow"] {background-color: #ff00ff !important; }

Given that some idiots incorrectly use semi-colon or comma delimited lists for rel, you'd be better off with using the "contains" idiom.

a[rel*="nofollow"] {background-color: #ff00ff !important; }

http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS3/Selectors/current/html...

If you're really have your heart set on using in-browser javascript, look into userChrome.js --You can do many amazing things with userChrome.js due to when it runs, and it's access to the browser.

http://userchromejs.mozdev.org/
After watching the first Zeitgeist movie it seemed like they made assumptions that were either not fully researched or not well formed. Most of the assertions were pretty much half baked or not even true. Looking at the actual movement it seems like they are trying to create some type of utopian society based upon the elimination of personal property and rejecting capitalism. Other than disagreeing with these ideas the system doesn't seem realistically implementable due to the fact that what will probably happen is some type of animal farm situation.
DDG is a meta search engine now, but this is a step towards being a real search engine someday. Harvesting queries, click through analysis, etc is vital to the development of a real SE. I would call this method SE boot-strapping.
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Quora seems to think that scaling votes will allow it to preserve the status quo of "high quality" answers.

Is it just me or does that seem pretty naive?
> And as usual, it’s not just about speed – it’s also about the costs associated with achieving that performance. It’s about efficiency, and leveraging resources in a way that enables scalability.

Do you even know what scalability means? It roughly means that when the demand on your software increases linearly, you can throw more hardware at it (also at a linear rate) and everything should be fine. It does not mean or imply using a small amount of resources. In this sense, using SSL is pretty scalable since it's always a fixed cost per connection and as your number of connections increases linearly, you don't need to add computers exponentially fast.

> Encrypted traffic cannot be evaluated or scanned or routed based on content by any upstream device. IDS and IPS and even so-called “deep packet inspection” devices upstream of the server cannot perform their tasks upon the traffic because it is encrypted.

Good, that means it's doing its job right.
UTMB is cool, and then right next door there's the Tor de Geants: http://www.tordesgeants.it/ The Europeans are kinda nutz.
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> Why do you think Bing cares or has to know that "q=" means a Google query term?

If that's true, then they should also be associating the sites linked with all the other weird parameter values in a search query, which would spam them to heck. Here are all the params from a search I just did on google:

q=test&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls={moz:distributionID}:{moz:locale}:{moz:official}&client=firefox

They'd start making a lot of strange associations between random sites and "utf-8" if that were true, because that parameter shows up in just about every Google search done in English.

It's also a perfectly normal thing for programmers to search for, so they'd clutter up their index with millions of sites that had nothing whatsoever to do with utf-8.

So to make any real use out of that, they had to understand what the parameters in there actually mean, rather than associating ALL of them with whatever site was next in the clickstream.

Though I grant you, that does not disprove the alternate hypothesis that they were dumb and polluted their index with loads of irrelevant crap.

And I admit that I found weak support for that hypothesis by trying to see if utf-8 was linked to rim.com (one of the tests sites, if memory serves):

http://www.bing.com/search?q=utf-8+rim&go=&form=QBRE

Those results appear to be crap, though I'm not sure that any sensible results exist that they could return.
Things like this make me realize how little most people understand what money is and what it's for.
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Speculation, but I think the tendency toward sociopathic really helps avoid any hang-ups over money. Sure, I'd rather sociopaths get on the Forbes list rather than go out and kill people, but their personality is what I find distasteful, and in any case it's an unnatural brain wiring, that's why I think it's not so easy to just "become a [partial?] sociopath" if you want to rake in money.

I tried the Cutco-selling gig for a couple months, and realized almost immediately that I wasn't cut out for it. Sure I could follow the manual (which was golden as far as things-you-need-to-do-to-convert), smile, talk smoothly, answer questions, etc., but inside I think I just fundamentally couldn't shake the feeling that "If these people wanted what I was selling, they'd have gotten it already." (And I think that came out a bit whether I wanted it to or not.) On a high level I know that can be false, but intuitively, that's how I think; I hate ads and when I buy something non-trivial it's usually after personal research, not because of a salesman. Salesmen even make me less likely to buy something especially because I can see through all their rhetoric. I find something really wrong with exploiting the cognitive biases of people even if it's been done for all time, and even if I do it sometimes subconsciously. We should be trying to eliminate those biases, not feeding them.

All this said though, you don't have to be a sociopath or a real hustler to see the opportunity of printing out new menus for a quick buck. That's more in line with hacking than with money grabbing, I think. More similar to a college student coming up with pizza money for a weekend than with going after money as a goal in itself.
people in general feel qualified to comment on economics because it uses technical terms that have lay-meanings. contrast this to sciences where technical language precludes non-experts from participating.
When this feature was first added to photoshop it caused a noticable delay when opening files or pasting content from outside photoshop. It was possible to disable the check by removing a DLL from photoshop and get the speed back to normal.

Somehow I don't think this feature has done much to discourage serious counterfitters, it's just annoyed legitimate users, especially as there are pefectly legal ways in which an image of a banknote can be used.
Although I disagree with your conclusion, I upvoted you because I agree that their assumptions are not fully researched or well formed.

The whole Zeitgeist movement seems to me a case of reinventing the wheel. There are any number of non-capitalist and anti-capitalist economic and political theories that people can draw from (market socialism, social democracy, libertarian municipalianism, syndicalism, etc), but this movement seems to never acknowledge them, and instead presents a vulgar anti-materialism ("we just won't have money!") without thinking through how society might function as such.

Usually when I hear someone is interested in the Zeitgeist stuff, I try and recommend a more complete and grounded political theory that they can research.
When you buy a subsidized phone, you enter a contract. When you break the contract, your life might suck.
I phrased my initial comment poorly.

I didn't mean any specific parameters within the model they are using.

I meant the quantities and framework which are looked to generate the model itself. For example, whether there is one quality "attractiveness" in a woman or say, two, "attractiveness" plus "pleasantness", etc.
I think it's both something you practice and also something you motivate yourself for. I had some entrepreneurial episodes as a kid, which I enjoyed and found some success in once or twice, but somehow forgot about in the teenage years. I started exploring the possibilities again, but I would say that I only got properly shocked into the mindset again after(surprise) getting hustled myself, in a bad way, and wanting to make up for it.

Knowing and relearning the "child's reality" is important to success, I think. It gets you past all the blind spots that derail businesses.
Whoever is voting this up, please stop and consider what etiquette level you'd like on the site. There's reasoned and intelligent critiques in this thread, which are good.

But this alnayyir goes around and writes really venomous nasty stuff. I already asked him to cut it out after he replied 18 times in a past thread, all really nasty. Do you want the site to have members calling other members nasty names with no other substance? No? Then please vote accordingly. You'll get what you bless.
Right. What you are noticing is that many MBAs think that sales is beneath them, sort of like how some theoretical computer scientists think code is an "implementation detail".
Your blog makes for entertaining reading...

http://keithclarksolutions.wordpress.com/
Scott set the American record, Yiannis Kouros still holds the world 24 hr records (180 miles on the road, 188 on the track).
I totally agree with your conclusion that there are better anti capitalist political theories to subscribe to. Zeitgeist just seems too flimsy.
I don't know of mainstream hosts using it today, but I have to imagine that hosting companies want to offer it as an option to their customers.
Interesting point about Android and BB, I hadn't noticed that before. Kind of seems like a chicken and egg problem. Obviously server admins don't want to turn on the feature until the clients support it, but the client support will go slowly until there are servers requiring it.
Cost is relative and does not need to translate to a monetary value.

1. An entrepreneur spending $500 on a gift after they've IPOed/sold the company compared to when they're ramen profitable. The significance is different because the level of sacrifice is different.

2. A hacker setting up a blog as a gift (easy) versus writing a sensitive poem (hard). The challenge and amount of effort (real or perceived) are what count in this case.

This is why unique, hand-made, decorative items work well as gifts, because they show a large time investment without having any appeal to gold-diggers.

When courtship is reexamined in this light, it fits the model pretty well actually.
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calling an app to prevent you from doing something "Freedom" is perverse double think.
John Derbyshire wrote an interesting review of the book and general claims both ways: http://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/HumanSciences/tigermo...

Two telling quotes from his article:

Professor Chua's article was a bracing rebuttal to the sappy-clappy "we're all special" sentimentality that is too prevalent in American child-raising. Her methods worked, too, at least in meeting her own goals: Her daughters are straight-A students, and one has played piano at Carnegie Hall. Probably we American parents should practice more tough love with our kids and fuss less about their self-esteem. Few of us would disagree with observations like: "Nothing is fun until you're good at it. To get good at anything you have to work, and children on their own never want to work." And assuming "strength, not fragility" concurs with current scientific understanding of the child's psyche. They are indeed tough little critters.

And later:

Children need some nagging and supervision, but they also need freedom to explore, to discover their own interests and aptitudes. We may, in our current child-raising practices, have over-emphasized self-esteem and self-discovery, but that does not make these notions nugatory. Children are entitled to a childhood, with frequent spells of play, idleness, and freedom from hovering adults.
It's nothing to do with hardware hacking, but Python ships with a kickass turtle module: http://docs.python.org/library/turtle.html

For some reason it seems like a well-kept secret.
I decided not to renew vyrle.com a few days ago. It may be available on godaddy if you like it.
Yes, many knowledgeable people prefer Blekko or DuckDuckGo. But that's "many" in the absolute sense, where "many" people are part of any arbitrary group on a planet of 7 billion.

Relative to the size of the group we're talking about, even among geeks, using DuckDuckGo as your main search engine is rare. It certainly doesn't look like DuckDuckGo has a glut of tech industry leaders using it exclusively — mostly just the odd geek here and there who wants to try something new or who has just decided he doesn't like Google.
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