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How do you connect up with potential partners, esp non-programmers?
Where do programmers find the other parts of a successful business team (marketing, business development, legal, finance) for your startup ideas? I think there's a gap for potential founders or new equity partners to find each other. It seems like the main way founders connect up are through school or friendship, and that makes founders with different skillsets (like a hacker with a sales/business development guy) hard to organically connect.

Do you think there is a need for a dating site of some kind for programmers to meet non-programmers who want to start businesses or improve existing ones?

Job boards don't quite fit that need, because trust and chemistry between equity partners is crucial to a successful company.

There seem to be a lot of business people with ideas for applications looking for programmers, but not at many programmers looking for business people to help them develop the products and bring them to market. So I guess the real question for hackers that would like to meet non-programmers to run a company is: what kind of product would you like to use to meet your future co-founders?
Elegant code golf? :D https://gist.github.com/961961
Feel free to move guys. I'd be happy to pick up your ex-employees.
Recently I needed to get my password for my bank account in France (I live in China)... They gave it over the phone after I only gave them my bank account number, my birthday and my name... I then went on to my bank account and transferred money.

With banks this secure, I really don't worry about keeping the login information in something like lastpass
Considering wrapping the perl interpreter to get a performant powershell implementation.

Extra lols from the "download spec page":

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Unless your website is very low traffic, the Amazon micro instance will not hold up very well and you find that stepping up to the medium or large instance (= more money) may be required.

That said, there are too many ways to list here to check that any Apache server is secure. this Google search will get you started.
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So what does that say about this poll? Its like the cat is dead and alive.
It's in the interest of both the employer and the employee to make a lot of money. If the employer doesn't make money, neither does the employee.

"Wages rarely increase to match a jump in productivity."

That's why we're all still working 80 hours a week to pay for a daily bowl of gruel and an unheated shack, right?
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The "false dilemma" was on the part the original poster, who claimed that "good for company" == "bad for employee". That's absurd on its face.
There's a huge difference in the needs of CEOs of large enterprises, where a 1% reduction in taxes can make a significant and material difference, and the needs of startup CEOs, who need access to risk capital and risk-tolerant employees.
One thing I find disconcerting, are more and more complex models that "work" in the sense of predicting what will happen, but the model is too complex to give humans insight into what is happening. Does that mean that the universe is just inherently too complicated for humans to understand, or do we need models that better lend themselves to explaining the phenomena they predict?
"More than 500 U.S. CEOs polled by Greenwich, Conn.-based Chief Executive magazine based their opinions on numerous factors..."

It says that it's a poll of 500 assholes who read Chief Executive magazine. I bet at least 250 of these guys own monogrammed towels.
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Are there Amazon AMI's that are already configured and are secure?
As a Texan that moved to work on a startup here in SF, Texas does have things a little more streamlined. Problem is talent, resources, and support is much better for tech here. If it was purely based on business economics, Texas is a lot cheaper.
I wonder what the correlation looks like between these rankings and an objective measure of business activity, like per-capita GDP of the states, or total business revenues. Eyeballing it, it looks like a negative correlation: their top-5 states are all poorer than the national average by per-capita GDP, while 4 of their 5 "worst" states are above the average (Michigan is the exception).

So the CEOs are either predicting future changes, or mistaken in their analysis of what's good/bad for business. One way to distinguish those two cases would be to look at an older survey and see how the rankings fared as predictions of future state prosperity.
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So while the article notes several times that "Microsoft is not making items that customers want", it seems that this is addressing the consumer customer. But isn't Microsoft addressing what the enterprise customer wants? And isn't this a serious chunk of where their income is coming from.

While I am not seeing flaws in the argument here, I am slightly skeptical, as for multiple decades I have witnessed many people underestimating Bill Gates, and now I wonder if that continues.

(I remember a time where Intel was skeptical of compilers produced by tiny companies such as Microsoft--they got no respect whatsoever.)
My cat also has a much better mental model of me and how I will respond to her stimuli than any computer does.
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Your memory must be much better than mine. Recommended procedure is to use a different and secure password for every site you care about, right? That's three bank accounts, several work-related accounts, a couple of social media sites, etc. I'd have to remember at least 20 difficult passwords on a daily basis.
New York in many ways is living off of past glories. There are two New Yorks... NYC and the rest of the state. The rest of New York is more like West Virginia. Read about places like Utica, Amsterdam, Jamestown and Binghamton. Buffalo is like Detriot -- 75% decline from its peak population.

Even much-vaunted New York City is not as strong as it might appear at first glance. NYC in 2011 is a single-industry town... finance IS NYC. Even the feature that defined NY for centuries -- New York Harbor -- contributes almost nothing to the state, as the freight terminals fled overegulation to New Jersey (of all places) in the 1970's.

30-40 years ago, the city had a diversified mix of finance, manufacturing and service industries. There were over 10,000 manufacturing firms in the city in 1970. Now both the NY state and city are living off of a sole benefactor -- Wall St.
What program in particular do you have in mind?

Youtube does the rate limiting on the server, it seems: the download starts fast when you seek, but decays to the actual video bitrate over time. In that case, your client can't do much about it.

But in general, you can't trust the client, because you can't trust the client's libraries or OS (or that the "real" client is even running). In this day and age of cheap hardware-assisted virtualization, even the OS can't trust the hardware.
To log in I use keys, but from there I still need to type in a password for root access.

We also have a client who gave us remote access via a Java applet to SSH in with - can't use keys on those.
This kind of reminds me of farbrausch's kkapture tool for recording demoscene prods. http://www.farb-rausch.de/~fg/kkapture/ It hooks into a bunch of popular ways of getting the current time, and just returns the previous time + some preset delta. Specifically, even if it takes six seconds to render a single frame of a demo, when the program updates its timer to make the next frame, kkapture will tell it that only (say) 1/30 of a second has passed. That way, if you encode each rendered frame to a video, it plays back at a smooth 30 fps even though it took much longer than 1/30 of a second to render each frame.
not cool...
I worked in both places. Texas isn't bad. No income tax and cost of living is a ton lower. My salary is 30% higher but my living expenses (with less SQ feet) is a ton more and I have income tax here so proportionally I make less.
Supply always meets the demand and not the vice versa, A more appropriate question to ask is 'Why is there so much demand for crappy engineers in India'?
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I didn't know what a lot of that meant. I'd be curious to see how scores and age relate. For example, in the list of programming languages I know, I didn't check a single box. But in the question above that asked how many programming languages I know, I answered "more than 4"!
> Unfortunately, it seems #2 was not accidental, as it was never fixed.

That does not necessarily follow.
> Should oil subsidies be reduced as well?

Actual oil subsidies, yes. However, that's not relevant to whether ethanol subsidies are a good idea unless you're arguing that two wrongs make a right. So ....

As to the "substance" of your claim, the article doesn't cite the alleged subsidies.

You're not the first person to claim significant oil subsidies. However, when I've investigated specific claims in the past, I've found them a combination of wrong and dishonest. Maybe you'll be different.

BTW - The US gets very little of its oil from the middle east. That oil goes to Europe, so the "military" subsidy is actually a Europe subsidy.

Oil is globally fungible only because the US wants it to be. The US could easily decide that oil doesn't leave the americas and let Europe fend for itself wrt the middle east. If that's what you want, fine, but be honest about it. If that's not what you want, congrats, you're a supporter of the so called "military subsidy".
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Pretty funny that "Street Performer / Homeless" is expected to pay more than "Student / Teacher" (probably accurate, too).
Listen to yourself. It's people with radical views such as yours who drive businesses out of a state. You're very narrow-minded. Put yourself into a CEO's position.

"why does New York have a substantially larger economy?"

Well, location, history (it was there first), a port (its not land-locked), huge population, and many other factors you've disregarded might be the reasons, for starters.

The only quote you give

'low taxes and corrupt government good, labor protection and regulation, bad'

is not in the article: it isn't a quote so why the quote marks? That's outright deception.

What an utterly ignorant and vicious post!
California is lawsuit friendly, has high taxes, very expensive to live, has high cost of talent, is saturated with competitors for the same talent pool thanks to the SV, and has poor public transportation.

I live here but if you just took a raw numbers, by simply moving your business to dallas you can improve your bottom line by about 30 percent. But then again who wants to live in Texas anyway? I'd do Florida though! :)
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it shouldn't be capitalized at all, i think 'runit' is proper.
have you filed this issue with the runit-run maintainer?
>thank Ayn Rand for solving the problem of concepts and leaving significant clues to the solution to the problem of induction.

Please explain.
Most users of anything don't care about RSS. Most users also don't explicitly care about the API, either — those are both at a lower level than what users notice. That doesn't mean they're worthless.
That's been one disconnect between machine learning and some other applied areas as well. For example, vanilla decision trees aren't really seen as a state-of-the-art ML technique anymore, but they still get a ton of use in medicine, environmental science, and the social sciences, because they're seen as more interpretable, rather than a black-box predictor. There is a bit of work on interpretable ML aiming to bridge that gap, though.
Yes, this seems to be the trend, cities are picking their battles in terms of industry focus - much like successful companies actually.
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No. Absolutely not. Not financially anyway. CA has a very high state income tax and very high cost of living.
The current form of education system is very different than what existed during the immediate post-independence era when the reforms were carried out. The entire Indian Industry and people passing out on the basis of their jobs in those times could be classified into the following categories.

First and foremost, The elite, the civil services, UPSC et al. Next opportunities in the defense services, Next came government jobs(clerks, small time accountants etc). The private sector jobs were limited to factories(Process based jobs) like ITI, BEL, HAL etc. Then small time business men. So depending on them the general qualification were BA, BCom and Industrial training courses(Welding, electrician etc).

Medicine and Engineering were considered elite, the demand and supply was both limited. For a while India had a Gulf boom, many people went to gulf to work. But real turn around happened after Manmohan singh's FDI's reforms in the early 90's. This is when the outsourcing market took off and the IT boom started and demand for both crappy colleges and engineers went high.

During that time, it was easy to get promoted and work in a foreign country. Due to all this every tom,dick and harry got promoted and became a millionaire. Even if he was moron and knew nothing and did nothing. The market was such that all this could go on. Now the entire Indian IT's middle management is rotten. The expectations of the current generation is very high. The college grads think they can easily promoted to be a manager in 3-4 years so they need not have to be technically good.

All this has led to horrible state of affairs that exists today. The scary thing is good people are never rewarded and bad ones some how keep making money through job hopping.
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Tell that to the millions of your fellow citizens who are unemployed. California can be a great place to start a tech or entertainment company while being a miserable place to run any other type of business. Inertia is the only reason it's still good for those sectors. That state's current trajectory is unsustainable, so something will have to change for it to still be a great place to start a tech business in twenty years.
Since when has supporting taxes and labor laws ever been considered radical? Opposing laissez-faire has been OK since the end of the 19th century, I believe.
Florida's weather is a problem (hurricanes really _do_ disrupt business). Texas, north of Houston (which has extremely humid summers), is very nice. If you worry about the educational system then put your children in a private school.

CA's educational standards (as well as other standards) cannot be maintained in the long run: the political system won't allow it. Within a few years we'll see significant downsizing of CA government and government services. For some this will be a lowering of standards but it is necessary.
I don't intend to imply that security products/services will address the problems inherent to badly architected/implemented IT systems.

Just that we can expect to see an upswing in expenditures for these sorts of tack-on products/services from CIOs seeking silver-bullet assurances from those naive about their corporate infrastructures' security exposure, or blame deflection, from those savvy about the same.

In other words, it might be a good time to start a white-hat IT security audit tools/services company.
Methinks you've not seen much of Texas. Piney woods, hill country, the gulf coast, the list goes on. Just google a pic of caddo lake for one example of an extreme definitely non-desert environment. Also, i've not seen much corn nor cotton here, just an observation. So far as business goes, it should stop surprising people already, large companies which relocate from NY and CA are the norm here, have been for the two decades I've resided in Texas.
... but not when you have deliciously usable and tactile "cards". :-)
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Maybe it is... who knows.

It's a hell of a lot easier to do if you don't make it about straight random memorization though.

I have a little memory association I do with every site I need an account/pass for, based on various characters out of books I've read.

Every site has a character I've associated with it, to make it easier to remember, and I have a simple (to me) algorithm I use to generate the password that includes various capitalization and special characters.

Sure, it might take a bit of work early on to remember stuff, but if you learn how to memorize things effectively, it makes it much easier.

Mind you, I also know all my CC numbers, passport number, drivers license, etc., as well, so maybe I'm just weird.
Well, I'm in Los Angeles, and tech / startups are booming down here. I'd say there's something more than inertia at work.
I've worked with some engineers in India that aren't getting good salaries. They were much smarter than some people in the US that are getting good salaries.

Salary, in my experience, really correlates with nothing. It doesn't make sense, but that's my experience.
Anyone manage to compile this on OS X?
"While I am not seeing flaws in the argument here, I am slightly skeptical, as for multiple decades I have witnessed many people underestimating Bill Gates, and now I wonder if that continues."

I would certainly rate Microsoft's chances much higher, if Bill Gates still held an active role in the company.
I don't follow MS closely but I thought bill gates was no longer involved. Is he guiding MS with enough influence that (betting against MS == betting against gates)?
What is the legality of downloading and posting analysis of this?
I think the view that what makes a place a good place to do business is primarily low taxes and a government hostile to labor (i.e. most of its constituency) is narrow-minded, personally. It shows a total disregard for what the long term effects of pandering to business interests at the expense of education and health might be. Sure, educated workers from other states can move to Texas, but what if those states follow Texas' lead as well?

So I disagree that my post is ignorant or vicious. That is not a direct quote, sure, but looking at the how the various states were obviously 'scored' it is pretty clear what is going on: CEOs value short-term and unsustainable business incentives, which may be fine as far as it goes but if you can't see why that precludes them from having a good influence on government policy then I don't have much else to say to you, I'm afraid.
>>When you look at it in a different way. Would you rather have more engineers than less? I would go for more.

At the expense of quality?? Literacy isn't the same as education. And because of this sort of things its that Indian IT isn't able to take any thing more than IMS projects today. The managers haven't the slightest clue how to run projects, and engineers haven't the slightest clue how code, design and build.

No point in having paper degrees if people can't work! Money comes from work not from degrees! And its not about passion, its about doing one's job properly. And that can be done even without the burning passion. If my job is that of a coder, I should be able to do my job properly even if I don't have the passion to write the next big OS kernel.

And the employment opportunities, how can we sustain getting business when we can't deliver on the current ones?
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It would seem "Wal-Mart disease" is a good place to look for start up opportunities. Look for companies suffering from Wal-Mart disease, then think up ways to compete against them.
Makes me feel better about staying in Austin as opposed to moving to California. I know there is less talent and risk capital here but UT-Austin is a big school with some great talent. For example, there's a bunch of honors program students that choose UT over other schools for scholarships, proximity to home, and lifestyle. In terms of risk capital, if you can't find an investor in Texas then raise capital in California and come back to Austin :D
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Maybe not weird, but definitely better than me. I remember my driver's license, my phone number, my girlfriend's, and my parents'. That's about it.

The mnemonic is a good idea. I've thought about doing that - but then I fear that I'd forget the mnemonic :)
What's the catch? Do you guys get equity out of the startup?
the Microsoft COO is from Walmart, so its hard to see why anyone should be surprised by this turn of events.
Maybe they'll pivot like IBM did, from consumer stuff to business consulting / enterprise products?
Not surprising. In 2005 they hired wal-mart's COO. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/aug05/08-04Tur...

Edit: (or to be more pedantic, they hired Kevin Turner, a Wal-Mart executive to be their COO)
Right. And by promoting each "tab" to its own "card" at the same level as each other "app" you benefit from that.
Good point. The reason I didn't bring that up is that the comments suggest that if-modified-since isn't universally adopted by RSS publishers.
Red states are good, blue states are bad. Seeing how most CEO's are Republicans and most red states have no problem giving huge tax breaks, not surprised.Ask Jerry Jones,Texas is big on corporate welfare.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20100908-Stud...
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Hush! Don't tell them! Every time a post like yours goes out another company relocates to Texas.

Please emphasize the Great Texas Desert, the skyrocketing cost of hay (for feeding your horse, of course), and the dangers of rattlesnakes, wild indians, and 200-pound snapping turtles (in the few places in Texas where there is water).

Gotta go clean the horseshit off my driveway now. Later, Dude!

P.S. Texas does produce a lot of cotton and is an important state agriculturally. But it isn't particularly telling in comparison: CA produces lots of fruits!
> No it doesn't.

> If what you claimed was true then why does India still continue to be the top outsource destination?

Because there are different ways of measuring top. He was talking about quality, you are talking about quantity.

> If cheap labour is the excuse then its the problem of capitalism, not India or Indian engineers.

Again, you two are measuring different things.

> The same goes to China and Chinese goods.

The fact there are so many Chinese goods does in no way imply they are "good".
you forgot oil&gas. but hey, we have sxsw.
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That is absurd I agree. I don't think that's what the OP was getting at though. Rather that higher taxes and labor protection CEOs tend to reflexively dislike (regardless of whether they are good or bad for business interests in the long term). It could be "actually good for company in the long term but the boss doesn't agree because he doesn't know what he's talking about" == "good for employee".
In India too its the same, the actual smarter ones end up earning less than the morons.

May be you get what you reward. You reward crappy programmers you get crappy output.
> I don't think there is anything more you can do to teach someone from China about Western values than having them completely immersed in our civilization

It's not that much immersion. I spend a fair amount of time in a college town, and the Chinese nationals, with very few exceptions, work play and live exclusively with other student visa holders from China.
Your question is surely rhetorical, for I would be astounded that you do not know the answer.

There is demand for CHEAP engineers. It happens that many are from India. There is no demand for crap, but sadly, there is no demand for quality (over cost) in the eyes of many.