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Him being far more influential and more important than most people in the room, and yet having trouble explaining what he does.

That's not true. There were many people in that room who were critical parts of multibillion dollar franchises. So critical that if that person fell ill the franchise would have to stop. If Linus fell ill Linux would continue relatively unchanged.
I guess programmers seem more geeky? Lawyers and Doctors can be geeks too.
That was exactly my concern when I first heard about it. I got a chance to sit down and chat with one of the co-founders a few weeks ago and came away very impressed - he demonstrated deep level knowledge of a bunch of software I care about (I particularly quizzed him on Solr and Redis) and managed to convince me that his team is very sharp when it comes to keeping on top of the infrastructure elements they support. I think they might be able to pull it off.
I respect the hell out of you for it. What you're doing is going to be tough, and you know it.

I haven't taken that leap yet, I keep collecting app and site ideas, but my normal day job hasn't reached a point where I need to take that leap.

We'll see how you do and whether or not a bet would be placed, I look forward to following your journey.
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Let's say you bought microsoft early on and sold it for a huge profit. You then bought google early on and sold it for a huge profit. You then use that to buy apple 7 years ago, and you now sell it for a huge profit. Let's ay you made millions on this. You believe that you should pay a lower percentage on that than what I pay on my income as a programmer?

The rich weren't squeezed out before the bush tax cuts were they?
Even if you assume there are 200 million active accounts, %0.02 of it makes 40.000, not 150.000
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I was a rather highly paid consultant at a young age with zero debt to my name out of school. Therefore, I was fortunate enough at the age of 22-24 to be able to afford random lavish vacations (Cannes, Prague, Miami, Vegas, etc) and lived in Germany and NYC for some time. I would do the whole "bottle and models" type gig every once in awhile, although barely part of my regular routine. There is something about being a geek in those settings that is, hmmmmm, I don't know, rewarding?
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Or replace the "a" with an "i": Ironn Barr. It will be a unique enough name that anyone's first impression will be "That's a pretty kickass name" as opposed to "You the HBGary guy?".
Adding color channels can help. For example, Sharp sells LCD televisions with an extra yellow channel. Problem is that these need software computes/approximates/guesses at the perceived yellowness of pixels based on their RGB (for computer monitors) or HSV? (for television) values. I have no idea how well we know color perception to pull that of reliably, whether it actually can work across the population (including the colorblind), or whether they implemented the best-known solution.
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I know too many startups trying to get cheap or free labor from young college kids. Before you try that, better make sure it's legal (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/business/03intern.html)
technically wikipedia is probably the biggest "content farm".
I really hope that I'm not using anything you created on the web. I would hate to be a customer of a service whose owner think 150,000 users are insignificant.
Anyone who starts a business is an entrepreneur, but only a small percentage of businesses are startups.

Also, the actual number is more than 2x that.
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I have about 10 apps out there, and averaging $3 a day. So it's not automatically a gold mine.
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In case anyone's scared away by the format, it's an accessible, three-page, quick read. And it's really interesting. The author's approach of blending language survey with language construction is a strategy I've recently employed, and I've grown more as a programmer, more rapidly, because of it.
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So it's off by half an hour to an hour over a year? That's pretty shoddy accuracy if you ask me, especially in an era where clocks accurate to the second are ubiquitous and cheap.
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I found a (the?) paper on the topic: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

I was going to ask you for a citation but realized that would be lazy when I could google[1] it myself. I've had a couple arguments with a hosting provider all but ignoring RAM errors, with them responding,"I rebooted and watched it for a few days, and it seems to have cured the issue."

[1] Do you ever think "bing it" will catch on? I think I've discovered their growth constraint factor.
I've seen this comment every time a discussion about open source, and I think it is incredibly stupid to justify his complaints like this.

What does he have to complain about? That they followed his terms of use? I can complain about people using my stuff in the way I tell them to also, but that doesn't put me in the right.
The parent post could have been made "dead". That will remove the ability to do votes, etc, even from your threads page.
And the new disk is RAM. Whoa, you just baked my brain.
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>You want to claim that CO2 is something dangerous, and should be lumped in with radium, cadmium, mercury (all actual, true pollutants)? Prove it.

The gamma radiation of radium and absorbtion wavelengths of CO2 [ if absorbing CO2 molecule is flying in the atmosphere it is frequently called "green house" effect, if you don't like this term we can use another - "decreasing permeability of the Earth atmosphere for radiation with wavelengths corresponding to the black body radiation with temperature 14-15C by increasing atmospheric CO2 content" ] are pretty much from the same page of Quantum Mechanics.
QM couldn't be proven even to Einstein, though. So there is no way i can prove it to you. Sorry.
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Color is not a physical phenomenon, but a perceptual one; there are some wavelenghts that, in isolation, lead to perception of specific colors, but actually, there isn't a wavelength for any color.

For example, one can have metameries (http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color)), where different physiclaal signals lead to perception of the same color.
Point of order: at least according to the article we're all reading, he didn't complain.
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Sure. it's called fantasy monster, you can find it on the app store.
"So, its kind of like Windows? That was free with my kid's laptop."
My brain had a hash collision with SEAForth and thought that it would be exceedingly unlikely to get much traction if they're expecting people to program enterprise software in Forth.

Not that it wouldn't be...fun?
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Someone please explain to me why just using the browser cache isn't enough?
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They generally remember to shower every so often

Oh, come on.
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I was going to be snarky and ask,"Do you use a 386 to go shopping at the grocery store?" but then realized I use an Apple A4/Cortex-A8 to go shopping at the grocery store. (Never mind whatever is embedded in my car.)

I think I'm going to steal that analogy anyway, because I love baffling metaphors. The nice thing would be using the Canadarm to put things in your cart, especially heavy items such as cat litter and gallons of milk.
It's just really slow - I don't know how Google's architecture works but it might just be that the doc lives on a single shard that is being heavily hit now.
[off-topic] Assuming it was a shortened link, Twitter's new interface solved this issue by dynamically generating title="" tags that display the full URL on:hover.

Anyone aware of a good solution for this? Shortener API's + An open source script?
Looks like the vector the authors used was that every registrant can be found at a url such as http://sxsocial.sxsw.com/users/503

They just iterated through and scraped what was on each page, I'm guessing. There is no contact address, email address or password info.
It looks like its loading now - but it was telling me that the file was removed.
Your browsing cache will just go back to a limited time. This you'll feel free even if you switch your comp, crash it or clear your cache.

Look it as an alternative to the bookmarking service. You never have to click on a button to record your favorite pages. Even if you miss it to click, you'll still have it stored somewhere.
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Hah! The bookmarklet works perfectly on engadget.com.
Actually, this is both true and false. I have a friend who I know for a fact showers every day, and yet I wouldn't want to sit next to him while working. So while one might remember to shower, that does not guarantee that the impression will last.

On the flip side of the coin, this also reminds me that I should probably shower.
When communicating, it is our responsibility to express our thoughts as clearly as possible. Dashing off vaguely worded comments and then insulting the reader when he seeks clarification is not a generally accepted practice in the field of writing.

To explain the confusion better: You say you "referred directly to the button's content," but you didn't. You referred to it obliquely. The grammatical subject of your comment was "this sentiment." That is as specific as you got. The most obvious antecedent is "the sentiment expressed in this article" — which is what people assumed. In order to get your true meaning, the reader has to actually ignore the grammatical structure of your comment and read in a subject which you didn't explicitly mention anywhere and which is actually off-topic for the current discussion (people will generally use the overall topic as context when trying to determine the meaning of ambiguous phrases).

At any rate, insulting people who are confused by imprecise wording is kind of rude.

As for the button's actual content: I think you're taking the jokey posturing too seriously. As he explained in the OP, the reason he liked the phrase is because it reflects an actual divide between the two cultures — almost any fantasy fan will have read Tolkien, whereas many (probably most) sci-fi fans are focused on present series and haven't read, say, Heinlein. Depending on your school of thought, it could be making fun of fantasy fans for being stuck in the past or it could be making fun of sci-fi fans for being ignorant of their own.
It is worth noting that this is the first significant data loss issue that I am aware of involving gmail. As much as the incident sucks for those involved, that is a pretty good record overall.
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only women can promote and oppose the same gender stereotypes simultaneously.
She doesn't mention it, but another great thing about being an engineer is that engineers are quite egalitarian and the evaluation criteria is often very objective (speed of the code, complexity of the algorithm, etc.). As a result, women just have to be good at what they do, and there's hardly any discrimination. In other fields, often, for a woman to just be good is not enough; there is overt (or covert) discrimination, "old boys" networks, etc.

// male here, but with several female engineer friends
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Have you done any benchmarks regarding inter-GPU memory bandwidth (i.e. GPU1->GPU2) vs. GPU1->host->GPU2? I am working on multi-gpu problems, which are often throttled by bandwidth limitations. Does the new SDK have examples of this and the new unified memory architecture (which looks handy)?
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That's a lot of books to shuffle through.

I'm a college kid with plenty of flights ahead of me, are any of them good reads?
Maybe. I've met a damn large number of openly sexist engineers though, so I'm not sure how true it is.
Most of them do tend to be cleaner.

But anyone remember the report a couple of decades back about water usage after the US Navy started letting women on ships? Having ladies around made the guys shower more often. Empirically, I can verify that, since getting married, I do tend to shave more often.
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Hasn't Phone.com been doing this for a couple years now? http://www.phone.com/products/virtual-office/
I actually just recieved my Sony LiveView in the mail today. Worn like a watch, it's more of a phone accessory than anything else. I can get updates as to phone calls, messages, and twitter, all without pulling out my phone which is usually buried in my pocket or in my jacket pocket.

The wrist is prime real estate for devices now. If apple didn't have a plan for this, I'd be shocked.
Yes, I didn't mean to criticize the team. I'm just in the same business (making my living with what they are trying to automate) and know the hurdles they are going to meet.

For example, my provisioning system looks nearly identical to theirs. I also have the central config file to map out roles/services/dependencies, network relations, and the CLI tools to 'manifest' a layout in the form of server instances, EBS volumes etc. And finally puppet to beat everything into shape. I can compose and deploy a production-ready runtime environment with many permutations of commonly used components in a single day.

The thing is, every seasoned admin builds that stuff over the course of his career. It cuts down manual labor significantly.

But you eventually reach a point of diminishing returns. Each individual component has corner cases, special optimization potential, and more than one valid operation mode (e.g. cluster vs master/slave).

Automating and maintaining(!) all permutations that customers will request is nothing short of a herculean task. That's why every managed hosting provider limits itself to a tiny subset of components ("We are experts in X"), charges significant fees for their services, and refers to specialized consultants for requirements such as "let's have a hadoop cluster".
That's a pretty good list.

Here's another one that's just come out: Easley and Kleinberg's "Networks, Crowds and Markets" : http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/kleinber/networks-book/
Are you promoting or opposing that stereotype?
As I posted on the other thread (saw that one first, but this has more comments): How is this different from Phone.com's virtual office, which has been out for at least a couple years now? http://www.phone.com/products/virtual-office/
Forgot to mention this is a paid internship.
i just admire them [women].
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Yes, they have. However, we're focused on making phone systems as easy as possible and will be adding a lot of functionality that no other players in the space currently offers.
"It's completely secured." -- Yikes, I'd never have the courage to make such a statement.

How is my encryption key generated and where/how it is stored on your server?

Forgive me if the key is generated by me on the client -- I'm afraid to try your plugin, so I'm not sure if that functionality exists. Looking forward to trying it out once I know more.
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I am building an application which not only aggregates Twitter , Facebook but provides easy to use UI and many more features. But I am wondering does this social aggregation market still have some space , is it worth to build new app for it ?
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Like you say, RPGs are very much a known concept. That simplifies things a lot! I'm quite familiar with the genre, having spent plenty of time doing what I'll claim to be research on what makes a good RPG.

I'm modeling this game with various classic 8 bit RPGs in mind, so I have some idea of how the graphics work, as well as knowing what I personally find appealing about the game. Just think, if your favorite 8 or 16 bit RPG that never had a sequel got a sequel, what would it be like?
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> Less Drama

A male developer saying that would _so_ not get away with it :P
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Actually, your karma still goes down, there's just no display-level lower than -4.
I'm from Seattle (not living there at the moment), and I have heard more than one person describe it as "San Francisco Lite". There is a large tech community there, a fair amount of VC firms, and the cost of living is a bit cheaper. I would encourage anyone considering a move to SF to at least take a look at Seattle before they take the leap.

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The original commenter pointed out that 0.02% is a more significant figure than the Gmail team makes it out to be, and that 150,000 is very significant. I'm saying the 150,000 figure isn't as significant as it looks, either.
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It's one of at least two reasonable explanations, while the context favors the other. For effective communication you need to consider how the other hears what you are saying.

On a more general note: you are often terse to the point of becoming cryptic. Removing ambiguities and room for interpretation are also effective usages of language. Merely expressing an idea in the shortest possible way is often not as effective in communicating the idea.
The problem with the law is that people who are US Citizens get pestered frequently based on a trait they cannot change. In order to be useful, a test must be sensitive enough to match the trait you're looking for.

Suppose you have a test that could detect something with a 1% false positive rate and which never produces false negatives. Further suppose that the trait you're looking for occurs in 0.001% of the population tested.

Using that test, you would flag 99 innocent people for every guilty person.
That fulltime salary is a rounding error for most companies, especially when you consider that you need that person anyways.

Seriously, I'm making a large part of my living off companies that once thought (or were told) that they could do without a sysadmin.

If the internet-part of your business consists of more than a static website (or a wordpress) then, by all means, pay that fulltime salary. Even if you decide to go fully managed hosting; you absolutely want that to be an educated decision rather than an educated guess.

And it doesn't end there. A never-ending chain of small decisions is waiting on every step of the road. Pull that knowledge inhouse (or to a trusted longterm advisor) as early as you can. Otherwise you will inevitably foot a much higher bill later in the game.
A male developer even thinking in terms of "More\Less Drama" ?
In order to make millions on my investments, I would have had to risked millions more of already taxed income to do so. The fact that others' after-tax income was transferred to me along the way in exchange for shares is irrelevant to the question why a positive or negative return on investment should involve the government for a second, third, fourth... time. It's called double-taxation, and it prevents people from buying and selling more than they actually would with the money the government lets them keep.

I don't think they were squeezed, but the bush tax cuts were a step back after decades of tax increases, when the wealthy were paying a larger share. Sure the top bracket wasn't the 90% pre-Kennedy rate, but the group of 38-42%'ers were paying a larger a share of GDP that they ever did before.

There is a point of diminishing returns on tax increases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve How else did the government fund itself when Kennedy cut taxes? Someone at the time must have thought the rich were being squeezed.
Good point--that's pretty much the experience I've had, but I've only worked in software, so I didn't have much to compare it to!
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