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Isn't Quora supposed to be Q&A for entrepreneurs?
I haven't done any CUDA programming, however I have wanted to dive in. I've been to some conferences where the breakpoint between whether CUDA gives enough benefit to the computation is largely driven by time to load a dataset into memory on the GPU. From what I've been told this has limited the use of CUDA to batch processing on large scale datasets. Is this still a limitation?
Valuable advice, but being technical myself, I'd like to see a post about how to find a business/marketing co-founder

Same here. Everybody seems to want to talk about the other scenario, but bring up "finding a sales/marketing/bizdev guy" and you get <crickets />.
That's one example. There are 5,500+ hospitals in the US, so one example is hardly representative. There would be many more investments if it was more profitable.

As the link I posted states - many are not profitable and many have a very low profit margin. Higher profits would bring more entrepreneurs and investment.
The thing is Boehner's position is so contrary to reality it's hard not to conclude that AT&T is influencing his position. Otherwise we'd have to believe that AT&T was lucky enough to stumble upon a Senator who misunderstands an issue in the exact way that benefits them.
How about explaining either way what you don't find polite or right?
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I don't get what's so great about their interface. Sure it's got eye candy. But I can't even search for +- 1 day from my selected date. Most airline or travel sites can.
Brilliant!! This was actually what I was expecting.

But it makes me think - are there any code editors that you can literally just drag pictures in, or put in urls and it replaces them with pictures? I could be stuck in some IDE ghetto and not even know about these things.
Sprouter is an odd beast. It was started a few years ago as a twitter for entrepreneurs. Its based in canada so that was part of its marketing and was founded by a woman which was also part of its marketing. It had a terrible interface for a while which they sort of improved over time. I tried to use it for a few months and found it was loaded with spam. It also has a very small userbase in general so theres really nobody to follow and no real discussions taking place.

Why they are now becoming a quora clone is frankly bizarre. I think they are becoming another digg or myspace or hunch where they just are becoming desparate and are probably either losing users or just not having an increase in traffic. SO they are just throwing different plans out there to see which ones stick.
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Am I the only one who thinks it's nuts to describe streaming video or music as "using the cloud"? Doug Engelbart demonstrated video conferencing back in 1968, was that using the cloud as well? Sheesh.
I think it different in each city. I live in New York, and this city is in dying need for more engineering talents to feed its fast-growing startup scene.

Being a hacker, the last thing you wanna hear is some finance dude pitching you an idea they had when they were crunching numbers on an excel spreadsheet at their 2nd year analyst job.

You have be product-savvy, you have to have respect for the hacker community/culture, and you have to be super persistent.
I think it's cyclical nature of the sun that people forget and loose their sunglasses enough because they're not needed frequently and have to keep on buying new ones when they do.
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Three months into my own (exhilarating) journey, I think the best answer may be to become one yourself.
The built-in web browser that Apple includes with the iPhone also violates this via its "bookmark" feature.
Or ValuJet, or Ryder truck getting rid of the yellow trucks...
Aaron Barr might want to change his name as well...
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Likewise for GoDaddy, hhgregg, and scores of startup names. It's like my brain is looking for a meaningful word and halts briefly when it can't find one. Textual basilisks?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Langford#Basilisks
Agree; it would have been interesting to hear the responses if he had asked Alice (or Bob) "what was I trying to say at the time where I said 'points'"? Or if he had even asked them to summarize his talk up until that point.
It depends on who you ask. :) We've created Django-nonrel and djangoappengine for people who need GAE's scalability or at least don't want to deal with scalability as an afterthought. Of course using the GAE datastore for everything can be really painful (and dbindexer is supposed to help in this regard - at least a little bit), but now you can have the best of both worlds and pick the right tool for the task.
This is the first positive thing I've read to come out of this fiasco (and I don't say that lightly, as I am particularly sensitive to companies suffering security breaches; but they've handled this about as poor as one could).
Google should buy a SQL engine like Postgres now that mySQL is in oracle's hands. People will need SQL databases till the end of times, and coupled with BigTable that can be a killer in the database space.
Well, there was this time when I was two and I was sitting on the pilot's lap....

I've spent a lot of time as a passenger in small planes and I have a good idea of what's involved in a preflight. I'm not against safety in general, but I think lawsuits and government oversight have really held back general aviation. A plane should be more reliable and therefore expensive than a car with a similar level of sophistication, but it doesn't need to cost 15 times as much.

Edit: based on khafra's comment, a possible reading of my earlier comment is that it's no more complicated to fly a plane than drive a car. I intended to say that it's no more complicated to build a single-engine propeller-driven airplane than to build a car.
The fallacy here is the engagement of "long-run" reasoning, which assumes that market inefficiencies are static long enough for entrepreneurs to overcome the various barriers to entry (the long-run requires an assumption of stationarity).

It's an empirical question whether entrepreneurs can reach the gold when it's constantly moving, and whether the economic cost of doing so is less than the cost of some smart regulation.
Though it's getting easier to explain what he does--Android phones are everywhere these days.
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I'm trying to feel that way too... but the fact is there are people on the app engine team who could write SQL support for app engine in a few days in their spare time.

The problems with app engine and the datastore have shown that there was a high level misunderstanding underlying the core design of the datastore... and how it would function in the context of lots of simultaneous users.

So I'd feel a lot more confident if Google addressed this concern other than with the high availability datastore...
This data is very interesting to me. I have always had a feeling that upvotes were slightly skewed towards websites that fail against major corporate firewalls. For example, I cannot read blogs at work so I upvote more blogs than I probably would if I could see them at work. Good luck on your venture, and you definitely have my vote!
I am sure with infinite money on both sides, if this were litigated, the OP would win. You have the right to write a computer program that sends an HTTP request to a site, even if the site's ToU say that you can't. After all, you can send a request without having ever read or seen the ToU.

The server should simply refuse to reply if the user has not agreed to the terms of use.

Apple will do what Wolfram says, but that's because Apple is acting in its best financial interests (30% of $1.99 for WA's app), not because Apple is legally bound to not distribute an app that links to Wolfram Apple.
It's stupid/frustrating in this day and age that changing the company's name after a big fuck up actually works.
Think of every crucial system running Linux... It seems that this story is backwards. He should be the celebrity, all these idiots were just in front of a camera at some point.
The Koch brothers are libertarians, not conservatives. See "Why I am not a Conservative" by F. A. Hayek.
This is exactly why we need campaign reform.

If you're business X, who's product is something that is provably not in the people's best interest you can ram through its legality with enough money thrown at the policy makers who are supposed to be serving the people who elected them.

AT&T did not elect John Boehner. John Boehner should not share _any_ ties with AT&T.
Bankofamerica.com down since this morning
I thought it was just me, but it seems Bankofamerica.com has been down since before noon today.
I'm that person, my business/marketing skills and creativity are unmatched. Plus I have good contacts and I'm the most persistent person on the planet.

Email me if you want to discuss visions - gstacks00@aol.com
I don't have any problems, but I use it mostly as a code editor, I don't use the built in table/data editor.
You can probably do that with Emacs ;-)
Whenever I was reading the news about HBGary, I kept scanning the articles for someone named Gary. I don't think I ever found any (is there one?).
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Most universities offer the option of a mixed teaching load, have you considered that? Also I know when I was a student a number of my classes were mixed with Graduate and Undergraduate stundetns have the opportunity to share the class. Otherwise I think the thoughts by ROG are pretty spot on.
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Many more details here: http://excamera.com/sphinx/gameduino/

* video output is 400x300 pixels in 512 colors

* all color processed internally at 15-bit precision
* compatible with any standard VGA monitor (800x600 @ 72Hz)
* background graphics
o 512x512 pixel character background
o 256 characters, each with independent 4 color palette
o pixel-smooth X-Y wraparound scroll
* foreground graphics
o each sprite is 16x16 pixels with per-pixel transparency
o each sprite can use 256, 16 or 4 colors
o four-way rotate and flip
o 96 sprites per scan-line, 1536 texels per line
o pixel-perfect sprite collision detection

* audio output is a stereo 12-bit frequency synthesizer

* 16 independent voices 10-4000 Hz
* per-voice sine wave or white noise
This does't really seem to take advantage of arduino's niche. Why not just write games for the PC?
I'm impressed how up the list "google" is and down/middle the list "think" is. How are you supposed to construct the query/question supposed to return results relevant to your problem, let alone recognize you found something relevant if you did not think about it beforehand? The most important part in finding a solution to a problem is actually asking the right question, and that requires quite some thought.
Hm. I see this as a play for DRM locking things across the stack. Deep scan and data analysis software would be ripe for implementing this. Maybe I'm just paranoid.
Maybe you're thinking of Hamlet's "There's nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." ?
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Just downloaded the zip... will have a look...big ups for getting it done man!!
Without Barr, it's likely that Federal is over (that is assuming that it isn't already over regardless), which is probably not a bad thing for HBGary but will be for anyone who invested in federal.

I think the lesson for everyone here is not to fund a company sharing your brand name without some degree of control over what they're doing and the ability to immediately fire the guy in charge if they endanger the parent.
Please. I agree that our celebrity-focused culture is idiotic, and Linus has accomplished more than most of us ever hope to, but calling actors "idiots" is insulting. Most of them work hard just like we do (some harder), and are quite good at their job.

After all, are you not entertained?
How much money can you make in the iOS App Store?
Paul Butler's Groupon "Gross Revenue" visualization
Maybe it's a common enough name that he can just say "no, I'm the other Aaron Barr".
Well, yes and no. I'm saying that knowing when to spend money, and when not to, is a fine balancing act for the bootstrapper, and that it's self-defeating to concentrate more on saving money than on generating more revenue.

As an example: very early in my business, I paid the monthly fees for crossbrowsertesting.com (a great service btw). Some months, I could barely afford it, but at the time I was doing a lot of web work and I justified the expense by how much time was saved dealing with follow-up issues from clients.

Conversely, I really struggled for a while because I waited too long to hire on help, and I could no longer manage my business's growth by myself. Clients got frustrated, deadlines lagged, and I wasted a lot of effort trying to save the additional cost each month of some help.

I've also found that, for me, having expenses helps to motivate me to keep growing the business. It would be possible to survive as a business by simply cutting costs until the costs were lower than the revenues, but I prefer to look at it inversely: keep growing the revenues so that they stay higher than the costs. I have no idea if that would work for you, but it might be worth trying for a while.

So, yeah, if you could pay for a service that would help you create more value, then maybe you should do that. You might find that when it creates more value for you, you're able to handle more customers, which helps you to find the time to go out and get those extra customers that you need to pay for the service.
I'm sorry, but I've heard a lot of topics from Boehner that include: "protecting our most basic freedoms".

Of course, by "our", he mostly means "Corporations" (IMHO, viewed as first-class citizen groups).

Just my opinion.
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"Central to the design of HTML and the Web is the notion of democratic access to information and the ability for non-specialists to create it."

Non-specialists don't need to know CSS in order to author information. The basics of HTML can be learnt in an afternoon.
The name comes from the three co-founders. The H is for Hoglund (Greg). The B is for Bracken (Shawn). The Gary is for Jon Gary who left the company shortly after it was founded.
It's also an illustration of what stops them from going downhill. Replies like neilk's do more to tone down the rhetoric than any voting button could do.
I had just assumed it was based on names of people associated with its founding, like JDEdwards, JDPower, TD Waterhouse, HP, Lockheed-Martin or even the Debian project. (Do those other arbitrary names trigger a similar irritation?)

With HBGary, though, only the 'H' can be clearly attributed to a founder declared on their 'about' page, Greg Hogland. But they probably had other people in mind for the rest at the founding.
Thanks for the tip! Im going to read it right now !
You are assuming that because the industry has many unprofitable participants, there must be few new entrants. You're guessing. You haven't shown that there are indeed few new entrants, nor have you shown that low profit margins are the main factor that discourages them. Any industry that is as capital intensive as hospitals are will have relatively few new entrants, so a convincing argument of the causal relationship you're claiming will be difficult to make.

I mostly agree with you that healthy profits are desirable if we want to have an effective healthcare system, but I don't think hospital profit has much to do with it. The profit that healthcare technology companies and actual care providers make seems more important.
I created a startup, wrote a book (http://bit.ly/1i5ede), started my own consulting company (i.e. freelancer), short sold a house, screwed up my credit, got married. Hmmm... Overall, things went well :) More details on my blog http://j.mp/fzrhOF
Congrats on your upcoming major release! I'm sure it was a lot of work.

I'm a detail freak so I worry about this kind of thing more than most, but wouldn't a unified address space tend to hide large bus transfers from the programmer?

Will the APIs still let you anticipate where the costs are, or are developers dependent on Windows-only profiling tools?
Working with end-users all the time has changed my attitude about how valuable developer time is. It's not that I don't think developer time is valuable, it's that I've really seen, with my own eyes, just how many people are affected when developers value their own time more highly than they value their customers' time. All those little inefficiencies and minor bugs and other problems really add up quick.

I, personally, am far less inclined now to spend my coding time on new features, and more likely to spend it on refining what I already have -- and so far I've gotten really positive feedback from customers on that.
Programming "to the metal" is a VERY different experience and one that can be satisfying much in the same way that baking your own bread (flour, water, yeast..) can be.

Now the Gameduino abstracts a lot so maybe it's bad comparison; one is not doing opcode/cycle counting to time refresh rates of NTSC signals!

However, if you WANT to do something like that...
http://nootropicdesign.com/hackvision/
Private profit, socialized losses. Now I understand what you meant. I believe the government enables these actors, not prevents them. Finance sector is the recent example. Polluters are protected from being sued (and damages are capped) by the government.

I think there is room for well defined externalities to be captured in transactions, but handing out subsidies to special interest in the name of technology progress is ridiculous. Who picks the winners and losers? How long do you subsidize? Who pays when the costs of the new tech do not come down? Will you raise the cost of transportation so I can develop teleportation technology?

I think Spain is going to provide a painful lesson in what happens when you subsidize green tech, and unfortunately the people who pay for it are already impoverished.
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1. Health care does follow the rules of supply and demand. It's erroneous to claim otherwise.

2. Many if not most health care costs are not emergency services, and they include many elective non-emergency procedures, diagnostics, mental health issues, drugs etc. A lot of costs come from behavioral choices and are preventable by responsible individuals.

"Emergency care represents less than 3 percent of the nation’s $2.1 trillion in health care expenditures while covering 120 million people a year."

http://www.acep.org/content.aspx?id=25902

3. Regarding compassion - Hospitals are not staffed with nurses, doctors, advanced medical services based on compassion -- all that costs money, labor and raw materials, and takes investment, education, specializations and entreneurship- all of which are not achieved through compassion.

Economics and finance applies regardless of intention (ie. compassion).
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When I look at the blue/yellow thing on Wikipedia, I mostly get a headache. Depending on the angle I view it at, one color or the other dominates and it can change colors while I'm looking at it.

I don't seem to get a blue/yellow unless you count where I can get it to be yellow in the middle with some blue at the edges that tends to merge with the black border.
I never made the connection with Ryder trucks, that's an interesting one. It's sort of a reverse Q-tip effect, where instead of your brand being generically associated with your product, it's associated with the worst possible thing it could be used for. Few products have been so spectacularly misused as to warrant such treatment.

Anyway, my personal favorite has always been Philip Morris turning into Altria Group. I can just imagine the meeting where they came up with that one: "you know what, fuck it, let's just make up a nice sounding word."
Thank you for that. The name is still irritating to me, but at least now I know it's not nonsensical.
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The fundamental problem is that flash sucks, in these ways:

1. No or "only when the designer feels like it" accessibility. Go ask a blind person how much they love Flash websites. I've been recommending against flash since the late 90's for this reason alone.

2. The performance sucks, and has historically sucked on non-Windows platforms.

3. It goes outside the browser security model. Flash cookies anyone?

4. Every change must go through the designer with the original files, unless you've decompiled everything (which may or may not work). God help you if you inherit a site with no source files and someone wants you to change something.

Not a fan, never have been, even before iOS was out. Fix the above
The Uzebox AVCore (http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9024) is arguably a more impressive technical achievement: sound and color video generated in software from an overclocked AVR, no FPGA magic, and less than $20 in parts.

Linux Akesson's Craft demo (http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/craft/index.php) also generates VGA graphics and sound, using only an AVR.
"Negative liberty" and "positive liberty" are at least as much a matter of phrasing as they are anything real.

For instance, do I have the positive liberty to compel others not to point loaded firearms at me? Do government officials have the negative liberty to not be compelled to hold elections if they don't want to?
The very next thing my company is going to do after rolling out the product currently under development is start aggressively collecting and compiling statistics on all of our support issues, service calls, and our customers' systems.

Even accounting for business clients on hiring binges, I'm really, really certain that the vast majority of the PCs that we support are more than 4 years old.
Ah, the age old unpaid service request.

I find this very similar to the designer's issue of spec work in the design community - http://www.no-spec.com/faq/

The best response I've heard to the spec work issue is making an analogy to other service trades. E.g. if you wanted a bathroom in your house re-modeled, would you pay the contractor only if you liked the job he did?

Maybe we could parallel that to this issue - "if my trade was carpentry instead of computer ______, would you feel comfortable asking me to make you wood furniture?"
The internet amplifies reputational risk. My guess is that if HBGary has any future they will at the very minimum have to change their company name. Reading some of the leaked emails provides (at least for me) a shocking insight into the dark side of the internet and how social networks can be abused for sinister purposes. Assuming HBGary isn't the only company involved in these sorts of machinations it raises some really big and serious questions about the future of democracy and the ability of governments to create fake consensus using "persona management software".