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Just to follow up: the wordage of the wikipedia article doesn't really match the legal advice I received.

I don't think it's exactly clear what is being proposed with the startup visa but many other types of visa such as H1B contain a "porting" element which the L-1 specifically does not.
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Google could easily do this, all they need to do is remove their branding and not announce it. I think your edit hits it dead on which is expectation management.
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Wall-based whiteboards are a standard at youDevise. We found whiteboard wallpaper that seems better than the paint - can dig up the name for anyone interested.

Agree it is important to keep clean as you go but ours seems fine after 6 months of heavy use.
I find the notion of failing as something that should be aspired to worrisome. Often the cost of failure is too high.

You don't want an airliner-pilot to seek failure. If banks make a big mistake and we slide into recession, people loose jobs, should we pat them on the shoulder for trying? What about the judge that sends an innocent man to prison? What about the solider that accidentally shoots an unarmed man? Can we assume he has learned from his mistake and will now be a better soldier? While this might be the case, the answer must be: No, we shouldn't.

Instead of postulating a culture of "fail often", we should find a higher standard. One that is based on hard work, sober and educated decision making and quality.

Furthermore it can be argued that one can learn more from success than from failure. Failure can be a byproduct of trying, but by no means it should be inverted into a measurement of success.

Let's stop this trend towards failure-ism now. I have a feeling that it might have very negative consequences.
> It's part of what they mean when they say the world would be a better place if it were more open.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb fucks.

That infamous quote may in fact support the hypothesis, but it still doesn't quite feel right.
The policy that was proposed last year—and I don't have any say over changes despite now all-but running the political game supporting StartupVisa—was that if you had gotten $250k in VC or superangel funding (where superangel was defined as being a US citizen, aka not jeff clavier, that hit some bar of annual investing) or $100k per immigrant co-founder, you gained a two-year visa. If, at the end of those two years, your startup reached $1M in annual revenue, raised $1M in funding, or hired 5 people, you got a green card.

As far as I know, that's still what the VC guys backing this are going for, though I do know that folks like Kauffman, Vivek Wadhwa, and a fair number of others think this policy doesn't go far enough as, quote, 9 out of 10 successful startups don't raise outside capital, unquote. Still, it's an improvement in my books and seems well worth passing. The biggest issue is making clear to the politicians that this is an issue well beyond Silicon Valley, as Pelosi said that she felt the Startup Visa was too narrowly focused geographically, which of course it isn't.

I'm also collecting stories of affected entrepreneurs and the jobs at risk without Startup Visa to post on the new tumblr in preparation for a push during SXSW: startupvisa.tumblr.com
I wrote about this in detail some time back:
http://tuhinkumar.com/journal/screw-up/

Think-Screw-Iterate-Screw-Iterate-Succeed (very similar to Feynman algorithm)
I am learning a lot here, definitely !

I can't undermine the financial knowledge I got at GS.
The one thing I don't like about using Facebook (or similar sites) for commenting on sites like TechCrunch is that my Facebook friends couldn't give two hoots in hades about my "tech world" blabbering. For them it's mostly irrelevant.

I don't use Facebook as a business networking tool -- I use LinkedIn for that -- instead I just use it on a purely social level and I don't really want the two to mix.

Business and social don't need to mix in order for you to be authentic.
I moved this line out of the for loop which made it slightly faster:

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Qtn: Is your live help available 24/7, there's always someone manning the live chat?

What is the purposes of your live help? To get feedback or answer questions? To get feedback, a simple contact form will suffice. User expectation of live help is Instant Resolution, if you can't provide that level of service, there is really not point having it. Sites like tender, satisfaction will meet your needs.

Consider the cost factor of using live help for the long run too.
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We do not expect an airline flyer to be learning how to do somersaults in air whit passengers.

The post is to be seen in the light of big corporations and individuals who are too afraid to fail and always go for the safer option which is mostly the local minima.

To be able to reach the global maxima of one's potential when you are at the peak of a local maxima, you might need to slide down and then learn to climb the higher mountain.
True growth only lies at the edge of failure
Another service that seems to do the same thing, and IMHO looks more serious: http://www.ghostery.com/
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The obvious response is that it should offer dual USB ports for charging.

It would be pretty easy to design a connector with two (mini|micro)usb male connectors on top of each other. Then you could trickle-charge to a single port from a normal USB connector and charge properly from the double-connector.
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Reminds me of this post: http://www.ecyrd.com/ButtUgly/wiki/Main_blogentry_130211_1

I think the way to figure out which way Nokia is going to go can be seen on how they treat Qt. If they choose to keep it, Meego is going to be the future. If they choose to let it wither and die (or sell it off), Meego will become just a curiosity. Qt is the key for Meego developer adoption, and the only way it could become a feasible smartphone platform. In my opinion there's no point to develop Meego just for the tablet market; it would be really hard when you couldn't leverage the same development effort as on the phone side.
Thanks for your comment scrrr, and while I see where you're coming from I don't agree. You brought up airline pilots and how they shouldn't seek failure. Obviously you don't want them to seek failure while they are in the sky. But in fact they seek failure ALL THE TIME while being trained. They simulate systems malfunctions and bad weather conditions and they mess up. In the simulator. But when they face those obstacles in the air they are invariably better prepared than had they never challenged themselves in the first place in the name of success.
I tried reading a bit further; it reads like PR not journalism.
There's current Android phones still being announced with keyboards that look like a Blackberry (plus other's with various kinds of slide out keyboards). And the new HTC 7" Android tablet has a stylus.
Agreed, thanks for your thoughts.
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Whoa I love the local maxima metaphor that's awesome. And I agree, failure is all about personal growth and overcoming fear.
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Who invented the "program a robot to leave the class" CS thought experiment?
Who invented the pedagogical experiment where Computer Science students had to "program a robot" (played by their professor) to exit the class?

I have heard about it years ago, have been using it (successfully) with my students, and want to give credit where credit is due.
home ownership remains an unattainable pipe dream for most people

This is objectively untrue for any sensible definition of "most": 67.4% of inhabited housing units in the US are inhabited by the owner.

Pedantically, "Most homes are occupied by their owner" is not the same as "Most people own their home"
They're making exceptionally tinkerer-hostile products. Maybe that culture exists inside Apple, but they're doing as much as they can to smother it among the general public.
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What does this mean for Qt, in you opinion?
I disagree, but I think it depends on the person as well. You can use facebook to do whatever you desire with it. While people try to 'censor' themselves in many social situations, I think society as a whole is moving towards more acceptance. Thanks to the internet, you can always find someone else 'out there' who has the same outlook on life as you. You are also able to see people from every different background and way of thinking, opening yourself up to better understanding and acceptance of them. You can be who you are wherever you are in the world and find acceptance online, even if in your hometown you may be ostracized.
Interesting film concerning this:
http://www.weliveinpublicthemovie.com/
Besides that, the look they have now is a little more fitting with the spartan Google theme than a big flashy about.me knockoff would be. It works.
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i was just reading about this today in "Rework", about failing in obscurity. similar notion to failing at something mundane with the M&M's. relish the opportunity you have while operating in obscurity, to fail as often as you can so you can adjust and learn and tweak and process all the data that comes with that.

also reminds me of the zuckerberg quote: "unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough." failure isn't the goal, rather a byproduct of good work.
This already happens. Groups and pages that would be classified as "hate" are magnets for obviously fake profiles, which are often friends with other fake (and real) profiles. Facebook's real-name policies seem to be poorly and arbitrarily enforced. The more sites that use FB for commenting, the more innacurate FB's social graph will become.
I had never heard that zuckerberg quote before but I love it do you remember where you got it from?
The iPhone 3G update to iOS 4? I hear it's almost working acceptably now after three minor updates.
It is not about professional activities. I do not expect airline pilot to try new tricks fully loaded with passengers, but I appreciate Wrights brothers efforts to try to put the man in the air in the first place. If they were afraid to try, if hundreds of others who tried it before them and failed were afraid to try, we could be still dreaming about flying.

Bit it's not about innovation either. It's about pedestrian activities which one is afraid to take because of fear of failure. It could be going to play football with friends after 20 years of not playing. It could be trying to ride the first bike a kid got in front of his neighbours. It could be starting your own business. It could be anything one would like to do but his fear of failure stops him.

It's not about taking stupid risks (the airline pilot). It's about calculated risks and eliminating public failure as something one consider critically harmful. If your failure could cost you $1000 and some public exposure and it's the reason you won't try, but you would try if it'd cost you $2000 without public exposure - well, that's what this post is about. To learn to put less "value" on public exposure of your failures so that you'd stop considering it being such a big cost of potential failure.
prior threads/debates re: coroutines, Lua

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2101210

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2276840
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First time I hear of that. No problems on my third generation iPod touch.
MacBooks are pretty tinkering friendly (from the software point-of-view anyway). iOS devices aren't so much.

But I think that spectrum of tinkerability shows the complete range of influences within the company, and could be a strength.
on startup quote: http://startupquote.com/post/1624569753
Except that in some cases people exchange photos and other info online that you cannot exchange verbally. In the thread in question, the OP stated this was his "world tour" and folks posted links to photos, something you couldn't do by phone. You also couldn't have a phone conversation with multiple people in the same way. So I don't entirely agree. Different kinds of data can be shared. But it isn't necessarily "less" info, just different info.
Via talk.maemo.org (http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=962346&postcount=28...):

They bought the Consulting side basically - where it was possible to buy commercial licenses (didn't buy the core developers). Qt's moving towards open governance and Nokia (as stated) has developers contributing to Qt.

This makes sense, really, to avoid commercial Qt users from despairing about Nokia's plans.
In theory, the development of some notional (and effective) Digital Rights Management software widget would enable a situation where each purchased copy of an MP3 could be considered a distinct object in it's own right. This could, in turn, re-enable the "first sale" doctrinal concept - the seller would relinquish the object to it's new owner cleanly and without any "residue".

However I suspect that if ever such a magical DRM widget were created it would be applied by music publishers in a way that would suppress any such free market.
Don't know what to make of it. On one hand they're transitioning just the commercial license, which makes some sense. On the other hand, my spidey sense is tingling a bit.
Michael Jordan Failure Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45mMioJ5szc

After growing up watching MJ play, it speaks volumes.
Tne Nook's solution is the right one. I assume you can still charge, albeit at a slower rate, using a standard mini usb cord from a computer then?

Slow charging is better than no charging, being able to just use good old USB when the need arises is key for any mobile device. I just refuse to buy anything anymore that doesn't charge from micro or mini-usb.

I wish Canon would get on the bandwagon and allow recharging of their cameras in the same way.
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There is also a blog post from the Qt side of things: http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia-working-...
You need to manage your risk. Without a risk management strategy, failure is likely to be worse. Obviously a pilot won't blindly seek failure to improve (I'll head for that mountain to see how well this baby handles crash landing).
'...accidently...' - A lot can learnt (and mitigated against) from accidents.

I agree it's not black and white, but I think failure is more stark and thus sticks with us, helping us to grow.
As a general tip for dried on marker with whiteboards, I've always found that drawing over the old stuff, and the rubbing off the new ink works very well.
The fact is that the Xoom will fail because it can't compete with the iPad in terms of cost or ecosystem. The iPad has nearly 70,000 apps designed for it. The Xoom, not so much. Plus, it costs more than a 3G+WiFi iPad with the same amount of storage and it requires a month of Verizon 3G service even if you will never use it. The bottom line is that the iPad killer is out there. This just isn't it.
Some of the 3rd Generation touches had the same processor power as the 3GS, some didn't and, as I recall, had the same issues as the 3G. I'm surprised you didn't hear about this, it was very big news at the time since the original update rendered many phones near to bricks.

http://www.google.com/search?q=ios4+iphone+3g
So true. I added code to ask regular users to rate the app and received a lot of 4/5 star reviews. Ask happy customers and they'll willingly give your app a good rating.
Sure it is ... http://i.imgur.com/WDCkI.png
Unless I'm missing something big, this means that the only part of Qt making money is now divorced from Qt development. So the development staff inside Nokia is not profitable and no longer strategic. In a large company, this is when you start looking for a new job.
"I believe my generation will overthrow the arbitrary and brutal authority of corporate capitalism and bigoted conservatism in favor of rationalistic, libertarian socialism driven by a scientific approach and a concern for universal social justice."

so, did you just take poli-sci to learn buzzwords and impress dumb chicks? I'm guessing you failed to comprehend any of the material. Before you call a fortune 500 company a "brutal authority" you might want to READ A FUCKING BOOK.
Are you learning more at your present job or do you think you were learning more at GS?
Tools have only limitations inherent in how they're made, and overcoming those can actually create new technology. Appliances also have artificial limitations imposed by the designers, and overcoming those (if it's even possible without starting from scratch) is a waste of effort that merely negates the designers' efforts and gets you back to the tool which was your birthright.
>I'm guessing you failed to comprehend any of the material... READ A FUCKING BOOK.

If you're so much cleverer than this chap, why have you not felt it necessary to accompany your ad-hominem attacks with at least a basic level of elucidation?

To the chap in question: insightful views clearly stated. I applaud your goals and I hope we can make it happen.
Nice personal attack right there. Try addressing his argument next time. And FYI, sociologically speaking, most corporations are brutal psychopats.
I don't agree with this whole glorification-of-failure stuff that is posted occasionally.

It's not that I see failure as particularly bad, or horrible. It's that it's not the point. The point is to WIN. When you launch a startup, and fail, try again. But wouldn't it have been better to succeed? Isn't the point to make money, or build a platform, or win the game? Not every product has a market. Not every customer call will result in a sale. But the point is to make a winner.

Why would you purposely seek out failure?

Of course, the undercurrent here is that in order to succeed - in order to win big - you must risk a lot, and risk failure. Risking failure is necessary. Making mistakes happens. If you're not risking failure or humiliation, you're not playing the best game you can.

Risking failure is not the same as actually failing.

Maybe that's just semantics, but it is a very important difference. If you're purposely seeking failure, I feel sorry for you.
Holly Crap. People that go around here don't question capitalism. They dream to sell their souls to the highest bidder. And than when water and food are so crappy (because of the corporate masters) they will give all money to health corporations.
Oh my....
This seems totally fictional. If the deck was really so stacked, why would a super rich kid be working as an entry level analyst with the plebes in the first place?
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That approach might work in somewhere the size of Estonia - but large centralized IT projects have been a bit of a disaster for the UK NHS:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8397854.stm

The chances of it being made to work by the government for somewhere like the US are pretty small.
She's on reddit:
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As you can see from her overview page, she started a similar thread on reddit tonight. (There was an earlier one from a few days ago in /r/suicidewatch).
Ask HN: Do I hide the fact that I am a sole-founder?
Hi HNers,

I am about to put up a landing page for my startup, which is almost ready for a public beta.

While writing the marketing copy, I have stumbled across a dilemma on which I would appreciate some input. The landing page includes a brief story, told in the first person, about the problem I am attempting to solve with this site. It occurs to me that some people might be put off by this, and would rather use a service that appears to have a big team behind it. However, I feel a bit uncomfortable with just doing s/I/we/g.

I would rather not detail the idea fully just yet (as I am shooting for some exclusive coverage from a popular blog in this space), but it is a tech/game-based site, essentially B2C SaaS for a particular subset of the gaming market. The tech nature of the site makes me worry that people would want/expect a big support team behind it, so showing that I am a single founder might put off some customers.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Is it better to be 100% open and risk some people not using the service? Or should I change the wording on the site to make it appear as though there is a big team behind the site?

TIA for any responses.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and I see your point, and I think that all of us have the goal of winning in mind. Of course it would be better to just succeed right off the bat. But that's not realistic. Success is a process.

This post wasn't really about seeking out failure as it was about recognizing that we have limitations and taking that as a challenge to overcome them. It was also about further realizing that failure at something isn't necessarily an indictment of your ability to succeed but a sign that you are pushing yourself sufficiently that if you keep learning from your mistakes you WILL succeed eventually.
Neither was I really. I was making a point about the speed with which people are jumping to claims of anti-competitive behaviour before the competition have really got out of the starting blocks, and in some cases before they've even got their running spikes on. I think it would be a very bad move to regulate a market that's only really existed for 3 years and hasn't yet reached a point where anyone can be said to have an established monopoly. Must remember not to try being pithy on HN in future.