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Tech is very different from most other businesses.

Say you manufacture toilet paper. Then you probably do want to locate your business in some state with friendly tax policies, and where you will find a ready supply of workers who will be quite happy to work for $12 an hour.

But for economic reasons, good tech people have the ability to be picky. They can move anywhere, and most of them prefer to live in beautiful places with a lot of diversity and culture. Hence places like the Bay Area. True, you can't buy a house here for a sane amount of money, but that doesn't matter either to the very rich, or to the very ambitious (who are happy to cram into some tiny apartment in their twenties).

Meanwhile, the successful and ambitious will draw many others who wisely choose to follow the action. California has a dysfunctional government, but it has a lot of things going for it. Silicon Valley isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
The Bermuda's 0% tax rate is a particular favorite. There were $51B in untaxed profits there in 2006.

See also:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_16/b42240452...
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> by simply moving your business to dallas you can improve your bottom line by about 30 percent

Assuming that Dallas has a talent pool that fits your ambitions and is willing to work at your company.

I wouldn't launch a paper mill in San Jose, or a startup in Montana.
Are you moving to Portland to found a startup or to look for a job? Your experiences would be very different depending on which one it is.

If you're looking for a job, going to tech events and networking meetups is great idea. If you're building a startup, all you need to do is go head down and work on a product/prototype, which you can do anywhere, at least until you get to the stage where you're actively fundraising.

Finding a cofounder will be a lot easier if you already have a prototype/early version to show that you're not just an "idea guy".
I recently have been reading Hugo Award Novels and recommend Roger Zelazny's This Immortal which is good enough to have shared the award with Dune in 1965. Lord of Light is also a great read and won a Hugo in 1968. Clifford Simak's Way Station, Phillip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle, and Walter Miller's Canticle for Leibowitz are other great Hugo novels from the early 1960's that tend to be overshadowed by more famous authors from that period such as Heinlein (not that I wouldn't recommend The Moon is a Harsh Mistress if you haven't read it).
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When charging a fixed amount to a client for a project, how much detail do you provide? We've been quoting projects based on estimated hours for each part of the project and including those numbers in the proposal, but I'm wondering if that's best.
I don't know why you would use your own version control. and not release it... Makes little sense.
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Poor public transportation, compared to which of the states that did well on the survey?

I grew up in Durham, NC and went to college in Texas. Everybody drives in both places. Now I live in SF and take the train every day to Stanford. Transit here could be better to be sure, but it could be a lot worse.
I hope somebody is planning an external graphics card.
At first I was surprised by the extent to which the commenters dissect the issue "Why are beds soft?", but then I read up on the author. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Aaronson

An alternative (and simpler) explanation for the purpose of beds that I read somewhere is that they play a role in night-time thermo-regulation. (I can't find the source now. It probably wasn't very scientific.) The idea was that humans evolved in warmer climates than most live now, so they require additional night-time insulation.
as a Portlander myself, I would agree entirely. Many of the individuals in tech industry here are from CA and came here to live not work. Though I found you can have a successful startup and a good life as well. Just balance and in PDX you are more or less forced to balance.
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Write down to-do itens to do in specific day or period of work.

Always carry around your to-do list in your wallet (clear your mind from to-do's).

Separate work space from home/personal space.

Limit checking email 2-3 times per day.

Work in a silent place with no or very few interruptions.

"Pomodoro technique" for completing a particular task.

Eat properly, stretch often, exercise, sleep.

Set approximate time you'll stop working.

Set mid/long term goals and have them visible in your workspace.
http://maps.google.co.nz/maps/place?cid=4194875824776890974&...

No, Google Places is just for businesses. This is a business that the owner has publicly listed in the German Yellow Pages, under "Event Management" (you can see this in the "more about this page" link). This business just happens to have the name of a person.
...and Bermuda enjoys one of the highest per capita incomes in the world.
Exactly. CEOs need the economic freedom to treat people as property.
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The rant about California's environmental laws is really grating.
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He's not setting up a straw man argument; the original article is a poll of 500 top CEO's asking which state they prefer and he's saying the results are not surprising. He's not trying to refute the results of the poll.

In fact, it looks like you're now starting to set up a straw man by bringing in property rights and economic freedom which are so general and irrelevant to the article as to be nothing more than a dog whistle.
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Also, how do you declare bitcoins on your taxes? It's taxable income, right?
When Intel was demonstrating Light Peak and citing Apple as a collaborator, I was hoping that they could go with optical fiber embedded in the MagSafe power cord.

Maybe it will be in the next generation of Thunderbolt.
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This is just completely absurd, and does not belong on HN.
Quoted from an email, where I answered the same exact question:

Most likely, Readable will never have multi-page support.
The reason for this is Readable's philosophy, and not any technical difficulties that feature may imply.

It is Readable's intention to take whatever is in your browser window right now, and make it better.
But it is not Readable's purview to go beyond that.

Readable tries to act like a browser, in this respect.
Think about it like this: Readable getting subsequent pages in the background would be pretty much equal to web-browsers doing the same thing for all paging, on all websites.
Just because it is technically possible, does not mean it should be done.
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I actually haven't. Once my revenue dropped below $1k a month from WebOS, I basically stopped adding new features and moved over to my iphone stuffs. I make over $1k on iPhone and growing quickly, gotta love the power of 100m users (vs 1.5m shrinking set of users).
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So he's like that orb thing in Heavy Metal?
I don't think that's what the OP wants. The real result expected is supposed to be ordered by the value of the key itself rather than the size of the key.
I'm biased - my fiancé wants us to live in Miami (her hometown). You can buy a place in Miami under $300k that does not suck – nice 3 bdr place in a nice neighbourhood or a 2 bdr ocean side condo (look it up, I was shocked), really! By Cali standards that’s l-o-w!!

I was talking to a friend of mine a few days ago and we were talking about the best place to live in the US. We were thinking in terms of a) reasonable cost of living (a million dollars should buy a mansion not a house), b) good weather (all four seasons at worst - no harsh summer/winter), c) low crime rate, d) high average IQ (no 'steel towns'), e) not under the constant threat of natural disasters and f) race not an issue (I don’t back down from racists which makes my fiancé nervous and ruins my day a bit ;)).

I have lived in the Pacific NW (rain sucks! I often joke I'd rather be in prison ;)), lived in So Cal (traffic sucks, homes cost way too much, the crowd is whack mostly, the air quality is bad, nothing is close etc.), short stint in Chicago (living there despite the weather is an act of arrogance against Mother Nature).

Long story short we concluded the best spots are 1) Denver, 2) San Diego, 3) Atlanta, 4) Salt Lake City.

If you have heart disease in your family (I do), don’t move to Denver. I’ve been told high altitudes are bad for heart patients (even future heart patients like myself.)
No. He's using Nigeria's tax system as the only basis for choosing the best place to locate one's business. Many other factors contribute to a a CEO's preference.
I couldn't agree more.

Once you're scaling the best thing to do is build purpose built machines tuned to your workload. If you've got a bunch of ruby's running and your RAM is at 100% but CPU at 50% you can over spec your web front ends on RAM to fully utilize your CPU.

If you've got a DB machine, then you'll want to run 200-500 spindles with another 20 SSDs for indexes per socket and as much RAM as will fit.
…at the expense of the rest of the world. If you built a perfectly legal way for companies to get billions of dollars of income into the US tax-free and all it requires is a holding company on your island, you can be sure that you're going to be a profitable little island in short order.

Do you really think they would still have the world's highest GDP per-capita income with a 0% tax rate if major international companies were somehow not able to exploit it?
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Ben, we love you guys, but we feel that you spend too much time with EA, GameLoft and probably Rovio, and not enough with us little guys. Maybe thats whats caused some me to get so distant, worsening the effect.

In all reality, thats business. A company that was driving only a few thousand dollars of revenue a month isn't all the important compared to the ones probably doing 10-100x that. :|
Consumers can react to market changes much faster than enterprises. We are seeing a rapid migration away from Microsoft's product in the consumer space. That must worry MS as this phenomenon seeps into their enterprise business over time.

Microsoft needs a new strategy that keeps it competitive in Consumer, Education, Small Business, AND Enterprise. Retreating to being JUST and Enterprise software company would be a very weak competitive position.
Memorizing may be good, but it does not scale well. I do remember some of my passwords, but my entire password database has more than 1000 entries, all of which are nicely long, randomly generated passwords.
Countries with the highest economic freedom scores in the world have the highest GDP per capitas in the world. That's factual proof that friendlier economic environments make better businesses, which benefit workers who receive the highest incomes in the world. Hong Kong and Singapore are great examples.
If LastPass doesn't understand the ramifications of getting hacked, then they should proceed "business as usual".

Acting like a paranoid password host will get you no where. LastPass is not to be trusted. They got what they wanted, publicity that the have no idea how secure their service is.
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Why do you think wealth is a zero-sum game? Just because one country benefits economically means other countries have to lose? The pie is not fixed. It grows bigger when economies grow.
Sounds like supergenpass which was implemented in Javascript as a bookmarklet, which is pretty good idea, except that any website with malicious code could grab your master pass from the DOM, and then they could use that for your account on any other website.

It looks like pwdhash works around this by functioning as a browser plugin (making your master password in accessible from the DOM) but I'd still be slightly worried about browser exploits allowing malicious sites to get at your master password.
Customers don't need to be excited about your products to make a boatload of money.

Then why does Microsoft keep wasting money trying to get people excited about its products? I see what you're saying, which is that there are still strategies Microsoft can use to keep their business going. The problem is that they aren't using those strategies. They keep trying and failing at putting together exciting new products for end users because they just aren't as good at it as Apple.
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Would be very slow, considering a thunderbolt channel is roughly similar to 1x PCI-E v3.

I would also expect greater latencies than on internal PCI-E.

While it would probably be nice for GPGPU cases where not (if mot all) the working set stays on-board, that's far from the general usage case for GPUs right now.

Even for multiple-screen it would not be that useful: DisplayPort 1.2 handles chaining, and where you have two Thunderbolt ports you have two DisplayPort ports.
Though likely accurate, your rebuttal doesn't address Stallman's argument. Stallman doesn't claim that SaaS is cost-inefficient, slow, or impractical; he only claims that it should be avoided since it is a forfeiture of software/computation freedom.
The talent to company ratio is much lower in California vs. say Texas (can be proven by the number of foreign worker visas petitioned by California companies as a ratio of its population).

I'd rather have (near) first picks from the University of Texas Austin, than third or fourth round picks from Stanford.

The top 10% of a top tier school beats trying to compete with Google, FB, MS and every known tech company in the world while being in the Valley, or paying for huge relocation costs to bring people in from other states or countries while being under the constant threat of them being picked out by recruiters for other companies.
Its either hours times rate (which sucks imho, because it creates a perverse incentive for laziness) or you go value billing and have a set of agile steps with dollars and time expectations. Its easier to relate to and easier to bill if you have specific steps, rather than trying to productize a service.
My last laptop was a 15.6" beast (Core2 T7200 I think with a GeForce 8400M G), but it was just underpowered enough to not do everything I wanted when I wanted, and was too bulky and power hungry to be considered portable.

Last year I switched to an i5 desktop with more than enough CPU and GPU grunt to push through the most demanding tasks (such as video encoding). However, if i wanted to slowly hack away at some code while watching TV in the lounge with my partner or do some coding while at my parents place, I was out of luck.

To solve this problem I bought a AMD C-50 equipped Acer Aspire 522 the day they were available here. Despite having only a 10.2" screen and a "netbook" processor, I find it does everything I want to do with a portable computer. The battery life, size and weight give me great portability (+1 for couch-hacking). The dual-core APU never locks up or stutters, even when playing 1080p video via the HDMI port. The DX11 capable graphics even play WoW and Minecraft great at native resolution (1280x720), and allows me to hack around with OpenCL GPGPU programming from my couch. NOTE: I upgraded the memory to 4GB, i would recommend an upgrade to at least 2GB for anyone who has/is getting this laptop.

I definitely think switching to a lighter form factor with more portability has allowed me to get more done because I can literally have this machine with me at all times. That said, I waited for this laptop specifically because it was portable, cheap, and had a decent screen resolution. If i were recommending a laptop for someone, I would probably reccomend something in the 12-14" range, unless they're going to have a desktop to do the grunt work, as I do.
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I suspect the survey's polling a large variety of industries, many of which wouldn't do well in California at all. If you limit it to the music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery that America does best, California's a much more appealing place.
Yes, but it didn't exist when I was working on the problem. But, it is one of many competitors you would face trying to make money in the space today.
Great comment. It appears to be a huge problem in synthetic biology too. For instance you can often, using genetic programming, find a gene that is far more fit than anything synthetic bioengineering would produce. The problem is genetic programming is undocumented, so you don't know how/why the gene is fit.
They are good at what they do. But they might become more careful about disclosing the problems next time.
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For all you students and teachers, what is your department, your school (please), and what is the OS that you teach students on and do research on?
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There are two fundamental epistemological issues with respect to reason. i) how do we form concepts and what (in reality) do they refer to and ii) how do we reason from specific observations to general conclusions and validate our conclusions (i.e. not deduction but induction).

Both of these problems were known (and unsolved) by the Greeks. Ayn Rand (in my judgment) solved the first problem, the problem of universals. How do we form concepts (classes) and how are they connected to the actual things subsumed by the concept. Her answer was that concepts are formed on the principle of measurement omission, which means the objects that form a class posses some trait(s) which is present but unspecified. This is what she called the "some but any" principle. She said this is the same principle behind algebra in that a variable "x" represents some quantity but may have any quantity but remains unspecified.

She explains all of it in her "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology"

As far as induction, she never tackled that but she did say that she thought the basic principles of induction are probably buried in higher (calculus or above) mathematics. She was being tutored in mathematics at the time of her death, hunting for the principle of induction. In my view the principles of induction can be found in the work of E.T. Jaynes on (Bayesian) probabililty theory and the logic of science.

My own view is that AI is stuck because we don't yet have the basic principles of how reason works, so we can't program a computer to do it.

N.B. Most people know of Ayn Rand because of her advocacy of selfishness in ethics and capitalism in politics and economics. What they don't realize is that her views in these higher level branches follow from her deep thinking in the more fundamental levels of epistemology and metaphysics.
I'd use it, but my Apture extension doesn't work while using your script.
I suspect there's a profitable sized market consisting of "People who don't want Google mining and indexing all their mail".

You could make gmail "the best email reading and management experience on the planet by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude", and they're still not going to end up handling mail for the nsa.gov domain. I'm not sure how far down the paranoia scale from director@nsa.gov you need to go before having Google index your internet-cat-pictures and know your social graph becomes the right choice, but there are certainly people with email management needs that Google are not going to address.
I don't think wealth is zero-sum. That doesn't mean that wealth cannot be transferred. In this case I believe that international companies and Bermudians gain and the average US taxpayer loses. I am more sympathetic to the average US taxpayer. I have no idea what the sum is.

You seem to be arguing against an idea of what I am saying rather than what I am saying. Let's just agree to disagree and leave it at that.
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Learn some econ. Trade isn't zero sum under specialization, but that's not what's going on. This is just shuffling income around to wherever some shyster of a lawyer has figured out a way to avoid paying taxes while still enjoying the benefits of operating in countries where people and corporations do have higher tax burdens, and it is zero-sum.
The use of c++0x should be limited to the small AtomicPointer class in port_posix.h. The class uses <cstdatomic> for its implementation. If you can provide a different implementation of "acquire store" and "release load" for your architecture, you should be all set without the need for c++0x.

I suspect that you may find suitable code in the chromium source code. See leveldb's port_chromium.h.
That's like asking, how did you guys meet your wives? Everyone will give you a different answer. Basically, anywhere. The more you get out, the more places you go, the more people you'll meet and network with, you'll eventually find someone who completes you and you complete them.

Find someone who solves your problems and you solve theirs, your personalities match up and that's your partner. You won't discover these things until you actually work with the other person of course.

And none of this can happen if you don't tell people what you're working on. Had you changed your question from: "How do you find potential partners?" to "I'm working on _____ and am looking for a partner" you would be much closer to your goal.

Well, what are you working on?

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Every day Stallman seems a little less unreasonable to me.

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control. It's just as bad as using a proprietary program. Do your own computing on your own computer with your copy of a freedom-respecting program. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.

In the shadow of Facebook, who would disagree with this?
If the rest of the world was smart they would prevent that tax arbitrage by eliminating corporate income tax, and increasing taxes on corporate owners (shareholders) to make it revenue neutral. This would increase growth by preventing corporations from wasting resources on tax avoidance.