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> Maybe it's specific to the technology field [...]

Yes, the author wrote, "I would advise those who are sufficiently talented to work in technology, which tends to be more meritocratic than other industries, and to avoid old-style business. Beyond that, I know of no solution."

Though I think techies from wealthier families still have an advantage in terms of salary bargaining, and choosing what teams they work with. (Being able to walk away is a serious advantage. Simply wait for great deals to come along, then push in with whatever strength you have... bailing if you realize it's not a good deal after all.) Not to mention more leisure time learning tech from various angles, and safety nets.
good luck getting one. i dont want to get into detail because there are already enough arguments on here.
you know there is a gov site for that?
Exactly same dynamics as in dating: If you appear like you've been single for a year, you'll have a difficult time. If you look like you just came back from the bedroom of a runway model you'll be surrounded by women.

The key here is attitude. While your upbringing influences that, you can always make a choice to be the relaxed rich kid. Even if your parents' income says differently.
I know one person in Nokia who did/does developer support. He's looking like a genius now because he submitted his resignation a month before the new partnership was announced (in Norway it's common to have to give 3 months notice).
It is pure speculations. Anyone can make semi-educated guess of what Apple would do with the next iPhone.

Antenna redesign?
If Apple wanted to make a hybrid GSM+CDMA iPhone, then the antenna has to be redesigned.

Aluminum backing?
Instead of the glass back-plate in iPhone 4, Apple could replace it with Aluminum one. There's a replacement Aluminum back-plate for iPhone 4, sold by third party.
Justice Department investigates Web video group
The corporate wrangling over Web video standards, already a technically and legally complex matter, is getting a lot more complicated with the arrival of a Justice Department antitrust investigation.
In research papers it is common to use 'we' even in the single-author cases.
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Writing an LLVM pass isn't too bad. Debugging one, on the other hand...
I don't think you'll even be able to complete the submission process with a duplicate name.

One tip I would offer is to use your competitor's app name in your list of keywords so you can come up next to them in searches. I suppose that might be dirty pool to some but it's worth a shot if you have some space left for extra keywords.
Is it because teenagers are not really interested in new social networks, they just want to be where their friends are?

That's not just teenagers-- that's pretty much everybody, if you ask me.

Now, I don't know where you are in Europe, but here in Norway, Facebook is pretty much ubiquitous with teenagers. I was a hard-ass with my daughter, and wouldn't let her sign up until she actually turned 13, so she was sitting up on the night before her birthday, with the form filled out, waiting for the clock to strike midnight so she could submit the form. Within 18 hours, she had more "friends" than I do, and all of them were kids she knew from school.

Note that also, here in Norway, there was another social network aimed specifically at children, which was quite popular-- perhaps it still is, with the under-13 crowd who don't have access to Facebook.
Non-American can not legally start a business without a green card or getting a work visa for his startup (extremely hard to get)
All good advice here so far. One additional item - when you get your business cards printed - style yourself something like "Technical Director" (Vice President it it in your part of the world?). It gives you the authority you need with customers and suppliers while implying a whole management board backing you up.
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"We" is fine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_plural#Nosisms
Another explication might be that rich kid not needing a job, do the right thing instead of the boss thing as they work lending them more opportunity.

'Linchpin' by Seth Godin defends this thesis that the job market has changed and that opportunities are given to (or taken by) the one that don't follow the rules.

The beginning of the article is nice, but the end nearly fall in fatalism. Saying that a sociological and behavioral issue is unsurmountable if you're not in the right dispositions first is just incredibly wrong. The world is changed by people doing things everyday even if the stars are never aligned; waiting a scientific approach to the world is very, very useless and a bit frightening too.
The article seems to me a just-so story. The author might be ignorant of the rich kids who end up as drug addicts or at the very least entirely economically unproductive simply because they can. They've got nothing to loose by not kowtowing to the bosses but nothing to gain by working hard either as they've already got everything laid on a plate for them.

However I think there often is something different in the attitudes of people with rich and poor upbringings. But from the article the kid whose parents earn $125,000 and who was bright and went to a top tier school will likely have all the doors open to him and the self confidence to take advantage of it. Any attitude difference above that level of income is mostly accounted for by individual personality and intelligence. Someone however who was born to a working class family and grew up surrounded by people in blue collar jobs might not have the confidence or social network to climb as high. Or at least the path is noticeably steeper.

And on a personal note, I disagree with the comment
"He has the right air about him, and the same freedom from anxiety and free-flowing creative energy of a college student because, for him, college (i.e. the time of life in which most middle-class peoples’ lives peak) never ended."
At university things were just starting to get really fun. I'm mid thirties now and looking forward to the fun that's around the corner. Not only is the glass half full, but it's champagne and the cute waitress is coming round with refills.
But that airline pilot has been failing on a regular basis for years.

He learned to fly in a little single engine plane, and routinely recovered it from stalls and even spins. His instructor would have him close his eyes, then throw the plane out of balance and have him attempt to correct it by feel (and he'd often fail to do so). He's crashed that very jet you're riding in dozens or even hundreds of times in the simulator. He's even recovered a real one from a stall during his certification.

The only reason he's good enough to be trusted to fly with you in the back is because he's been training to failure all those years.
Yes, the 'soapbar' design of the earlier iPhones fit your hand much nicer. While not exactly painful, the iPhone 4 edgyness actually hurts your hand a little. Also, it's way more slippery. And how much better the antenna design may be, I can get it to disconnect from my Airport Extreme 6 meters and a chalkboard-wood-and-rockwool wall away; just by holding it in a comfortable 'landscape' grip over the top of the iPhone.
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Except for a problem, that you have to mount (by accessing) GVFS-filesystem first. If you're using Nautilus to navigate to the file and start vim — it's fine, but it won't work for any non-GIO file browsing (bash, mc, emacs-dired, gmplayer, ...)
Why down voting?
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We have it in our office and it works well. I might look into the wallpaper though, we had to plaster the walls first which took a lot of time.

It's way better than a whiteboard though, it's another feeling to be able to draw on the entire wall.
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I agree with your point about competition, and I also believe that a broker/agent with a sufficiently large list of property can add value to a search process (they ought to be better at identifying properties that fit your requirements than a couple of grainy photos and a list of bullet points, and competition induces them to show you the most suitable properties first).

Isn't the problem with Craigslist simply spam?
The property for rent listings on Gumtree (UK equivalent of Craigslist which is very useful for finding flatshares which don't involve intermediaries) are rendered unusable by spam for fake properties put in place by letting agents who will then subsequently offer you something more expensive and less appealing that actually is on the market. Essentially the agents collecting lists of tenants with multiple fake properties crowd out anyone trying to directly list real properties.
The idea of throwing open the doors, was to ensure a truly competitive playing field for Americans and Immigrants alike.

If an Immigrant, and an American have to be paid equally, work the same hours, have the same benefits and rights, then the immigrant is no longer at a disadvantage, as he currently is a legal slave, with no rights, under H1-B.
Use "we" and refer to your startup as a company because that's what it is (and is going to hopefully grow to be). It also shows a certain humility, like when people write a research paper and refer to themselves as "we". But there are other reasons too: suppose some psycho troll takes aim at your startup for some reason (it has happened in our facebook games) and decides to make your life hell; you 'd rather they did not know you are their only enemy
Yep. This is the same reason that would-be underage drinkers are always asked for ID every time they try and go to the bar, right up until the day they reach the drinking age.

From that point on you're never asked for ID. The bartender can tell from your walk, your gaze and your speech that you have it, just like before they could tell that you didn't.
1. The latest IE version to run under Windows 2000 is IE6
2. The latest IE version to run under Windows XP is IE8
Both versions are still widely used (especially Windows XP) - especially in the setting of big corporations
3. There are business applications that either depend on IE6's rendering model
4. There are admins (especially in the corporate field) that fear updates because they could break essential applications
> As taught in: Spring 2002

So, then the answer to "How to value your company" at that point in time would be something along the lines of $0.
It'll take awhile to find out (the person who ordered and installed it has moved on, so I really do have to dig around for it). How can I send you an email with the name?
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I'd imagine that their marketing department doesn't get to make too many tech descisions, even if they do seem to be more aware of their product's problems.
It's never a good idea to be disingenuous. If you plan to run the company on your own, use I. If you can conceive of and are hopeful of building a team, use we.

People that would be turned off by that are not the kind of customers you would want at this stage.
Use "we" for/as the entity that is the company. Use "I" when speaking as yourself. I believe this has been common and accepted behavior for as long as I have ever known. Even if the company is only you for now, your company will eventually be more than just you. Ask your mom this question, forget what she says, and now you are "we". I will reiterate a previous comment.... You have already spent too much time on this... Launch the page now!
France does not have a competitive labor market, that is for certain! However 9.6% is a low rate of unemployment for France historically.
The Shazam developer collected device IDs, so that beta testers can now install the free version and still get to the things you could do in the beta (unlimited tagging).

So, with a bit of preparation they could have handled Tweetie customers differently in the Twitter app.
I think "decide what the world sees when it searches for you" is a very good concept. You can expose yourself without having to worry about privacy. I wouldn't want to make my Facebook profile available to everyone.
Somebody told me the reason for this which I found interesting. Even if you felt you did the research yourself, somebody funded the research, somebody commented on it, somebody at the library ordered journals for you, you attended talks in your institution that inspired you etc.
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Naz, I agree with you that he's taking a position that's pretty uninformed based on history and I'm a big admirer of your comments and thinking, but I even thought "read a fucking book" wasn't the best way to present a counterargument.

People here are smart, if you show them cohesive analysis and can avoid emotionally loaded words, they respond to it. The Western commerce structures have produced more wealth than anything else in history... almost everything you interact with on a daily basis is a result of coordinated effort of these structures.

People don't even realize because they're surrounded in wealth - they don't viscerally understand how it got there, and how it wouldn't be there if it wasn't for the structures we've got.

For instance, in Soviet Russia the soda vending machines wouldn't give you a can or bottle (what a waste!), so instead there was a communal cup that filled with soda, you drank from the cup that everyone else did, and then there was a bucket of stale water you dipped the cup in afterwards to clean it for the next person.

Needless to say, this promoted all sorts of germs and unsanitary nastiness and lots of educated people forbade their kids from drinking the soda from the communal cup, whereas less educated people passed their germs around and got more sick, and had lower health and lower life expectancy.

But people don't read history, so they don't know about stuff like that. They just assume that soda companies are... what's the author call it, brutal authoritarian something? You're right, people don't study history. So we've got to be patient and work with them and educate them a little bit as to how things really are.

It's kind of a thankless job, but I think civility is the only way to do it.
But why is it then, that social networks get adapted by young adults first?
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Real world example: Rock Climbing

There are two basic approaches to route climbing with ropes: "Traditional Climbing" with removable gear placed as the rock allows and the potential for injury if you were to fall, and "Sport Climbing", with closely spaced fixed gear, where falling is a matter of course.

"Trad" climbers will often go years, decades, entire careers without ever falling off the rock. "Sport" climbers will average around a dozen good falls on a typical day out.

So there you have two observable groups, one where failure is not an option, the other where failure is commonplace. Given the difference in mindset, it's not surprising that you'll often see 14 year old kids with one year of experience in a world where falling is just part of the game out-climbing men with 20 years experience who've never truly exceeded their limits.
Start learning and writing the code yourself. All you need is time and commitment - not money. This will enable you to implement your great ideas in future too and give you a job if this idea doesn't work out. Win/Win.
Not to mention that the case looks horrible..white and aluminium??!
I don't want to use my Facebook account for anything other than facebook.com. I don't particularly trust Facebook as an organisation and I certainly don't wish to live in a world that's dominated by only one or two huge mega-corps.
Maybe he is surprised that young, smart, poor ppl are capitalists.
I have a second account which has no friends which I use for "liking" companies in order to enter competitions.
We developed a coroutine-based event-driven networking lib in Lua (not open sourced yet, but it looks like it might change someday). One of the neat thing is that we're able to run that on tiny ARM-based embedded hardware.

I think there are people who did similar stuff for classic PC hardware, and already open-sourced their work; you might want to look at nmap, among others.

The external API is a superset of Luasocket's, so the event loop can remain completely transparent for users if they choose so. Proper coroutine support really rocks!
No, I can't. FUSE - as everything relying on kernel VFS switch - forces me to explicitly distinct between files and directories.

Look at the current state of FUSE-based archiver filesystems. They use kludges like file ./archive.tar.gz but (AVFS example) directory ./archive.tar.gz#/file.txt to get around this limitation.

As for Windows Registry - it is not an absolute evil, it's just that Windows implementation of the idea of a centralized tree-like key-value configuration storage is unbelievably crappy. For example, there're (Plan 9-inspired) /proc and /sys, and they feel perfectly fine.
Do developers use code examples effectively? (fun survey)
Developers use code examples in surprising ways.

We are conducting an online web survey as part of a research, held in Tel Aviv University, to investigate this further. Participating is easy, the survey is short and fun - just click the link (http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/research/ohad.barzilay/exampleSurvey.html).

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Absolutely agree with you that he should address his argument.

That said, this is almost too obvious to point out, but it happens to be true that the Soviet Union and Communist China (and Vietnam, Cambodia, etcetera) murdered 100 million+[1] in the name of "building socialism", and it is quite possible that the original poster knows people from those countries who lost loved ones to socialism/communism.

Seen in this light, I'm not saying that OP's phrasing was the way to go, but it's understandable that there are people frustrated by this all too common style of ignorance. It's not idealistic to actually support socialism in 2011, it's simply ignorant.

At the risk of reductio ad Hitlerum, certainly an offhand comment in favor of "rational, libertarian Nazism" would have dominated response to the essay, yet we find it acceptable for educated people to make offhand[2] complimentary references to a polar opposite ideology that actually killed many more people.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Black-Book-Communism-Crimes-Repression...

[2] Or in this case, direct rather than offhand
That was a typo. Motorola's specs say 14 days. I also wondered about that!
No i am surprised that people with intelligence and vision for technology, don't think outside the box when is needed.
For me there is no panacea for society. Part of my life was in Socialism, another in Democracy / Corporatocracy and believe when i say that in two cases for normal hardworking and talented individual there is no hope.
The solution is to take what's good from both of them, for example public healthcare (from communism) and free market (from capitalism). And make politicians responsible for every penny that they are willing to take against public interest. But what i know...
This is something I've been thinking about lately; what I actually do, and I think I've sort of figured it out

First up, I'm not really a very good programmer. I'm ok, I enjoy it and I have enough skill to get by. What I am good at though, is being able to understand what people want. My ability, and the bulk of my income, comes from being able to take someone's vague fuzzy idea/business rules (rules? huh! business cotton wool more like it) and flesh them out and bring them to life.

I think my most important role is not the technical stuff, but rather being able to listen and to understand and to really try and grok what the other person's telling you.
Failing is a question of time scaling. If you look at a small piece of time or at a larger piece of time everything fail :
- Roman fail seen from today, that was a big empire
- MS is failing today
- Facebook failed sometimes and will fail one day
If you look at a micro level there is failure everywhere, bugs, stuff, missed contracts. If you fail AND are still growing indeed then it's actually a success... for the moment.
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I think they handle this part of their system really poorly. I'd like to log into Facebook, and then click "Friends" or "Family" or "Corporate", and have three completely separate and distinct areas where I can be sure data wont leak between them. As it stands, the only way I can do that is to set up multiple Facebook accounts. But maybe I want to stick my brother in both "Friends" and "Family"...
Good read.. this could also be a productivity booster..
Usually it's not $200k salary, but compensation package. A typical example is:
$165k base salary, $25k annual bonus, $40k stock.

Sorry, I won't mention any particular companies, but if you're close to anyone at a major software firm, you should easily be able to find out what it's like.
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Yeah - but you are saying that immigrants are risk-averse and that's simply not true - just they have allocated their risk differently than you.
I pressed for a long long time to get whiteboard walls at our office. Mostly because it would be a cool/hip thing to have, and, you know, cool and hip makes you productive right?

Seriously though; it is pretty useful when brainstorming. But the BEST use is the one next to my desk where I can lean over and jot notes & progress updates etc. at will. No more post-it notes cluttering up the place :D

The other advantage over a traditional Whiteboard is the sheer size. I always run out of space on normal boards, an entire wall isn't infinite, but it takes significantly long to fill.

Some tips. This is only a "chuck it on the wall" product if you are not overly concerned with the look (for example; using it for a cafe price board etc.). In an office w/o the proper prep it can look nasty, uneven and start to get messy in very little time.

You really need to re-plaster the walls, then sand them finely (this is the big pain). And then seal them properly with a skinning under coat (that will iron out any tiny bumps). Hopefully leaving you with a nice flat surface.

We skipped this bit the first time and had to re-do the entire test wall after about 2 months.