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> Additionally, any new monitor for the past few years ships with HDMI.

Also, all monitors besides the cheapest / oldest models will have DVI input, which you can easily get from an HDMI port. The only displays you can't easily drive from this device are those which only take VGA input.
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If you've not seen much corn or cotton then I'm pretty sure I've seen much more of Texas than you have.
Agreed.

I don't understand how a CEO (Ballmer) can last so long at a company with share price effectively flat between $20 and $30 since 2002 (1). Especially in the tech industry -- unless shareholders think the results would be worse without him. MSFT has dividends which maybe offset the flat share price in the investors mind, but oracle (2) and ibm (3) pay dividends and they have had good share price growth since 2002.

(1) MSFT: http://goo.gl/He849
(2) ORCL: http://goo.gl/iNWs1
(3) IBM: http://goo.gl/0W6Kz
Sorry I refuse to believe in this. Last time I checked, Good folks in India come out irrespective of the college.

I know a lot of IIT'ians who really put the name of the Institute to shame.

Eating on a brand name has been a long used strategy by people in India.
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We're not, but that's doesn't address his statement. Does it match the increase in productivity?
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Is it what we speak? write? what we find on the web? in what social context? Given some constraints, then perhaps yes, you could write a formal grammar and have a parser

How about defining it as what the two of us speak while having a beer in San Francisco? Is that constrained enough? If not, what constraints should be added until it becomes possble to write a parser?
With the variety of resolutions out there, inches is the wrong measurement for me. I don't care if I'm working on am 8" or a 13", as long as I've got enough pixels to work with. I'm more productive on the 11" Macbook Air than the 13" Macbook Pro, because of the shape and resolution of the screen.
Seconding the dumping of the TV. I've heard nothing but good things about the Culture series so that's something I'll have to get to soon. And I can never recommend the original 6 dune books enough, simply legendary.
I would like to see an A/B test with and without that chart to see what the difference in donation rates is.
I think the chart probably helps, but always better to gather data right?
There's stats across several different XBLIG, along with analysis, from one of the top XBL indie game developers at:
http://radiangames.com

If you read his most recent posts, it appears the recent XBLIG spamming of ratings (which lowered average game ratings across the board) has cost him huge numbers of sales - enough so that he's now looking at other platforms.
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There's plenty of desert in California.
RSS is awesome, and standards help ease integration, but we need to stop freaking out about RSS.

What we need to focus on is making sure companies endorse open data. Allowing users to get data in, and out in a reasonable format.
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So I'm supposed to use the NYT's custom API to get articles when RSS has, for years, provided a "general" method for me to do the same thing for not only the NYT but millions of other sources?
It describes the approach used here (cf. all of the discussion of the tablet system). The few differences are documented:

http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/source/browse/trunk/doc/imp...
>thank Ayn Rand for solving the problem of concepts and leaving significant clues to the solution to the problem of induction.

I would also like you to explain.
Ha I'm gettig a lot more views when you posted this.
>Maybe we could

No.
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I love stuff like this. It's like answering a question to which everyone wants to know the answer but is too ashamed or overly confident to ask.

It would be interesting to know the variance in responses. I know this wasn't meant to imply statistical significance, but I'm just curious what these results would be with a larger and more random sample.
In addition to being able to reduce the size of laptops, I hope Thunderbolt will enable the next generation Cinema display to feature gigabit ethernet and firewire connectors, making it possible to connect a single cable (two, if you count the MagSafe) to seamlessly transform a laptop into an iMac.
Can't I accomplish the same thing using Kickstarter?
It's been four months since the last one. Does anyone know if it will be regular again.
Customers don't need to be excited about your products to make a boatload of money.

I don't think anyone is excited to buy gas at $4 a gallon, but that doesn't make it an unprofitable business to be in. MS has been running with out it's founder for years and has been moderately successful.

If one is to believe the reality distortion field that Jobs is central to Apple's success then his health problems pose a major problem to the long term value of the stock.

Apple has some very serious competitive risks (Android) and some very serious internal risks (Jobs' health). Apple's stock price is based on the idea of maintaining 30% growth for the next few years, that's a much more difficult goal than to lose 2% per year. Also, Moore's law is still relevant in the mobile market meaning that people replace their phones fairly frequently to get better hardware support. A mobile phone from 5 years ago is clearly inferior to most people whereas a computer from 5 years ago is mostly adequate for most users. What this means is that there is still time in mobile for a major competitor to emerge. The desktop PC market is locked up and belongs to Microsoft. The desktop PC running Windows is also a core part of the business to a lot of companies in the same way that Mainframes are to the financial industry. Yes, Microsoft's Desktop PC business will continue to decline for years, but it's a steady essentially risk free revenue stream. The mobile revenue stream is still largely up for grabs.

Microsoft also has big inroads into enterprise sales which could solidify WinPhone 7 in the enterprise which would bring in some pretty big bucks.
I am Indian, and I refuse to believe to this 'cheap' meme. FYI, as per Indian standards most of these crappy programmers are paid really well. In most cases better than the good programmers.

The thing about good productive programmers is same as that in the US, they tend to stick around for long time in one company, take time out to learn and master the trade. And are not usually on the job lists. On the other hand, due to rapid growth it has become fashionable here for the bad folks to hop a job often. The trick is simple, the performance evaluation happens every year in most companies here. Before their performance is even judged, they fly to some other company.

Hiring is often done by HR's. They are given a template of standard questions flicked from the internet. Most of which are factual and don't test a candidate analytical ability. Questions like 'What is a class', 'Can you define X'. If you memorize the answer you can easily pass the interview.

There are dumps of questions available for clearing common certifications like SCJP et al. They say some jargons in interview, negotiate a good salary and join the company. By the time their performance is evaluated in the company they go to some other company.

This is what is happening in India currently. The good folks are there but they are invisible and often lost in the crowd.
It's a really solid post. And it's dead on about the pluses and minuses of Portland. Well done.
I'll call it first: BS.

Having worked in High Performance Computing, I can say that there is nothing worse than a heterogenous workload. If you've got image processing, data mining, number crunching, and simulations all running on the same hardware and OS, you miss out on a lot of optimization. If you are only doing one of those, then you can get quite a bit more performance out of the hardware by tuning it properly. SaaS, by it's specialized nature, allows that tuning to take place. Running everything on your own machines just slows them all down.
My question is, how do you get $500,000 for a feature you can get by clicking "Show Search Options" in Gmail? I do get the bigger picture but I don't see how to monetize it or prevent Google from mimicking it a 1000% better if it gets popular.
Yes, that's very cool. Thanks.
From my observations I would say so. Moved to Texas for job and find even senior Tech people are treated fairly poorly by management. And contractors even more so. That is what prompted me to post this:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2525345
I'm just curious, why you wouldn't upvote me? (I don't mind, I'm just genuinely curious). It is possible you did upvote me and someone else downvoted..so apologies ahead of time if my assumptions are wrong.

Culture was meh...By the 2nd or 3rd book you realize that the Culture is so powerful that nothing presents a risk. It's like Superman without Kryptonite (or his lack of pragmatism). Aside from the first book, Consider Phlebas, Excession was probably the best - largely because it focused on ships rather than people. Just my $0.02 of course.
Doing that completely misses the entire point of the article.

You don't want to compete against them - that just puts you in the same market.

You want to find a completely different market that renders them irrelevant.
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"Firstly, anyone who has had experience with off-shoring to India is probably convinced that the whole country is just minutes from falling apart through shoddy engineering. "

Untrue, Uncalled for, Unsupported by any facts, and plain wrong.
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You attempt to control the discussion by framing* the argument in biased terms. For example, you frame CEOs as seeking "low taxes and a government hostile to labor".

That is not true (as the article shows). CEOs use many factors in choosing a state within which to locate their business.

If everyone believed as you, would that be a good thing? Did you expect, in a democracy, that everyone else would see things as you do? If you are over the age of 12, it is late in life to realize that other people do not think as you do.

*The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain by George Lakoff
I somehow fail to see the difference between incentivizing a country not to spy and making it “hard as hell” to spy. Isn’t that the same?

I’m also, like the grandparent, a bit unsure how this is an appropriate measure. Are scientific collaborations used for espionage? If they are not or seldom used for espionage, how does a ban on collaboration result in less espionage? Which benefits of collaboration does the US relinquish?
Currently I have a 14" Sony and a 13" unibody MacBook. Both are approaching 3 years old, so I've been trying to decide what to do about replacing them.

At this point, it's looking like the answer is going to be selling off the MacBook and (eventually) the Sony and consolidating into a single PC laptop. I have a reasonably powerful desktop for my needs (home-built Core i5 running Win7) and a nice Dell i7 laptop for work stuff, courtesy of work, so I'm mostly looking for a small and light enough personal laptop. I'm thinking I may just go small and cheap and leave the heavy lifting to my desktop PC, so I'm looking at some of the new AMD 'Zacate' E-350 systems that Engadget likes to refer to as "notbooks" -- probably the HP DM1, since it has one of the new clickpads on it.

I considered getting a MacBook Air, but decided not to. Even though they're very nice machines I'd really rather not pay the price premium, and I'm honestly not very enthusiastic about some of the things Apple is apparently doing with Lion. For the OS X-specific stuff I do -- mostly Ruby and Python in MacVim -- I can do it just as well in Linux and on the same platform I'd be deploying it on -- plus I can set it up to dual boot Windows and drop back into that if I want or need to.
It wasn't a criticism, it was a support of bitcoins. The point is that the Supreme Court supports the notion of money transactions as free speech.
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I'm new to this bitcoin thing, but I think it's a great idea. Here's what I think about the author's points, let me know if I'm missing something:

> "Mining" (they even borrowed the word!) bitcoins is pointless busywork that produces nothing of real value.

The "mining" activity is used for bootstrapping the network, the on-going processing of transactions, and the collection of transaction fees. It is not busywork.

> Bitcoins are less convenient than paper currency.

For in-person transactions, this is probably true, but not for computer based transactions, where we're held hostage to companies like PayPal for simple transfers.

> Bitcoin denies the truth of capitalism, that it's about value, not about money, by preventing the money supply from expanding when the economy does.

I'm not sure how true this is, maybe an economist can weigh in, but considering that it's not inconvenient to divide bitcoins into smaller units, I'm not sure why this creates any problem.

> Bitcoin allows for random unrecoverable effects like the 1930s depression.

I don't see how bitcoin would allow for "random unrecoverable effects" any more than Paypal would. Is this related to the possibility of breaking SHA256, which the author also thinks is viable?

> Bitcoin removes government control over the economy, which means there is no control over the economy.

I think this could be argued as a benefit, but it's not like bitcoins are likely to become the one world currency. If anything, it seems likely that a tiny bitcoin-based economy will spring up.
How many of your friends use Bitcoins?
Was really psyched until I saw --std=c++0x in the Makefile. What 0x features does leveldb depend on, and can those dependencies be realistically removed?
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LevelDB should not be compared with the storage model of TC, because leveldb could be looked on a bigtable that run on single node, which is a model that is optimzied for updating instead of reading. The application situation for leveldb is different with that of TC
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Yes, and they want you to install a special 'NYT app' for that, which will be future: every company and news outlet will have its own app.
Maybe that's one of the reasons why I don't want to live in Texas.
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Does anyone have an example of RSS being used/picked up by the mainstream user?
There are many, many, many reasons I'd like to live in CA, specifically san diego, la, or sf. None of them have anything to do with the government, in fact the government & its costs are a significant downside.

Why do industries concentrate in any area? It's called preferential selection and has strong historical/inertial ties. This can be seen in all sorts of other areas, for instance in NYC when building a new bridge back in the day it replaced the ferry dock, because that was where the roads already led to and it could handle the traffic. California is one of the most resource rich, and beautiful places to live in the entire country. It's easier to kill off industries than people think, and the advantages of being in a hub are getting less and less as technology improves.
good article, but the bulk of engineers now come out of private colleges. Engineering Education is the new business, every politician or big businessman owns one or more engineering college.

Middle class could afford it, IT jobs are easier to get, engineering is the new the minimum qualification for getting a good job.

if government liberalizes medical education, we would see a million more doctors soon.
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That sounds right for direct staffing costs (health insurance isn't cheap!), but low if you mean counting in all the other stuff. I suppose it depends on the business--someone like Dropbox spends a lot more on servers than say Groupon.
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The same post(but without the modified title that you use) was posted yesterday, received some attention, and it is [dead] now.
Does the increase in productivity actually come from the employee or the infrastructure around the employee, developed and paid for - at financial risk, by the employer? If it's the latter, shouldn't the employer and the investors who took the risk on achieving the productivity gains receive the reward?
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No, and that's why they still provide the RSS feed. My point is that in the immediate future, companies like FB, Twitter, and NY Times will experiment with APIs that provide richer functionality than RSS. Hopefully within a relatively short time frame, the APIs will start converging into a standardized, widely adopted replacement for RSS that builds on these ideas.
fractal trees should have a faster read performance with leveldb with a comparable updating performance. There does not exist any open source solution for such structure, while we could hope that www.acunu.com might provide an open source solution for similary Stratified B-tree http://www.acunu.com/2011/04/log-file-systems-and-ssds-made-...
And a pool of highly trained / smart employees -- you just can't find lisp hacker in Winemucca, though you might be able find money, low taxes, and plenty of risk-tolerant warm bodies.
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Eventually you may be able to buy things directly with bitcoins.

Or you may never be able to do anything with them.
>It feels like what people believe a logo to be is also becoming more transcendent.

I don't understand why so many people write like this. It's a logo, not a metaphysical experience. It seems everyone involved with "design" read the Pepsi Redesign doc [1] and took it as a lesson in good writing.

[1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/25437499/12112331-Pepsi-Breathtaki...
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I'm excited to see what devices are created for Thunderbolt. It seems to me to be like the LED was: a solution in search of a problem and history seems to indicate that exciting things come from solutions in search of problems. For example, imagine being able to connect to FIOS directly through Thunderbolt for 10GB/s bidirectional speeds. You could livestream 4K video with bandwidth to spare. Welcome to the future, gentleman.
Here's a fairly recent NYT article that discusses this, although most of it is within the context of the then "current happenings"

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/28/business/28wages.html

For most of the last century, wages and productivity — the key measure of the economy’s efficiency — have risen together, increasing rapidly through the 1950’s and 60’s and far more slowly in the 1970’s and 80’s.

So in this regard, Turing_Machine is indeed correct that wages have historically followed increases in productivity. My remarks were imprecise, the word rarely should have had an asterisk to a footnote that states that rarely means within the last decade or so.

But in recent years, the productivity gains have continued while the pay increases have not kept up. Worker productivity rose 16.6 percent from 2000 to 2005, while total compensation for the median worker rose 7.2 percent, according to Labor Department statistics analyzed by the Economic Policy Institute, a liberal research group. Benefits accounted for most of the increase.

The BBC had an excellent graph that displays the trend over time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5303590.stm

The authors of the EPI report argue that low minimum wages, weakened union power, and the loss of both blue and white-collar jobs to off shoring do much to explain the jobs picture.

Which leads us back to why Texas is popular right now. Most of the news articles are from the viewpoint of workers, discussing it in a negative connotation. I'm sure you can find other publications from the other viewpoint, that labor is getting cheaper and profits are going through the roof. Surely someone in the WSJ or The Economist has noticed.
What would the development of a mid-level robotic AI do to China's economy? That is, something capable of accepting speech commands and doing manual labor and costing about $5,000 per unit?
Thunderbolt (and Displayport, in v1.2) also supports a daisy chain topology, so even if it didn't, you could plug such a device between the display and the laptop..
In some countries (eg UK) prostitution isn't illegal. It's just illegal to ask for money for sex, its illegal to imply you'll pay someone for sex, etc. that sounds like what the government could do to bitcoins. As a result prostitution is de facto illegal.
I would like to see methodology on this. If Calif. and Texas CEOs were merely asked "rate your tax policy environment, work force quality, quality of living etc in your home state on a 1 to 10 scale" and then the results were compared across states, then the study would be filled with bias based on the respondent's frame of reference (e.g. in their mind they could be comparing/weighing their own state against number of variable things that need to be controlled for).

A study asking them to rate tax policy in each of 50 states would also be inadequate since the average CEO probably does not have enough knowledge to answer that question about all 50 states.
"If it makes you feel any better, I was a janitor too."

It doesn't make me feel any better. I don't need sympathy.

"It was a very different type of job from say... founding a startup, or even just being yet another software engineer."

Agree, but so is every other job. Why single out Janitors? Are they easier to pick on because of their stereotype? Each occupation has expectations which must be fulfilled to a high level of quality. Janitors have a ton of responsibilities of which they're responsible to, including getting creative when need be. Unexpected events do occur, and janitors have to be able to adapt and make personal decisions on the fly.

"Asses were busted but at the end of the day you go home and there's no lingering stress."

I don't know about you, but I know there was a ton of paralyzing stress around my whole body working those shifts. Enough where I couldn't even think about founding a startup, let alone stay awake. Maybe in my dreams though.
Nothing new there really. There are already countless regulatory bodies governing the Chinese internet. Including the one that is officially called 'Cyberpolice' http://www.cyberpolice.cn/

It gives out rewards to citizens reporting infringing sites. So every once in a while you would see news like '12 year girl old reports 671 pornsites, gets 100 000 yuan reward'
That's quite a straw man. Economic freedom and property rights are more important than how much taxes you pay.
I upvoted you, not sure why someone would downvote though.
Right, that's for the incremental cost of each employee: taxes, benefits, equipment (for the individuals, not servers), office space. It's useful for calculating how much a new employee will cost you.
I can assure you that SV executives flock to SV because of talent, in spite of California's tax system and business policies. We'd flock to Wyoming if Wyoming had more talent.