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I don't gamble. This is not some religious thing, but simply because I like to have control over my fate, and gambling takes that control
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Interesting attitude. But of course you don't have control over your fate. One day you're going to contract the disease which kills you, and you don't have any choice over when that happens or what it is. And between now and then, dozens of major events will happen in your life which you also didn't choose.

Maybe you like to have the illusion of control over your fate?

Personally I like to keep my life exposed to some randomness.
For me, the dark side of happiness (or rather contentment) is that I don't grow or develop or achieve much of anything. If I have good friends and a stable romantic relationship, the 9-to-5 looks pretty good.

When I'm sad and lonely and it seems that everyone else in the world is doing better than I am, achieving their goals and leaving me behind, that's when I feel compelled to go work out and build things.
Well, you're not going to be a master after a week long crash course, but I bet with a lot of studying and reading, and a good tutor to answer questions and walk you through tricky parts of the code you could get to the point where you could at least read the existing code and grasp what it is doing after a week or two. From there it's just a matter of digging in and trying to solve bugs and fix stuff.

The best way to learn is to start getting stuff done. Once you can read the code you can start making changes and seeing what happens. You'll break stuff, that's OK as long as you're not making changes on the production server. You should have a local copy of the code on your computer that you can play around with without fear of screwing things up royally.

I'm not a Ruby on Rails hacker, I'm a Django/Python guy, but I'm sure there are plenty of good guides to Ruby on Rails out there that could get you started.
This is hugely monetizable, far more valuable than checkins. Imagine being able to advertise coupons to people who have already indicated willingness to go to your competitor.
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Quite a stupid policy, IMO. It's much too easy to make it look like country X is doing the hacking. It would be an exceedingly cheap way for a 3rd party to marshall US resources on their behalf.
Please explain the intent of that graphic? Or, rather, what does where the electicity is have to do with voting power, aside from the congruence with cities?
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Sit down with your investor and work something out. If you just split you may be dooming his investment. You need to offer him a path that could possibly lead to him recouping his investment at some point in the future. Can you find a replacement? Can you give up some equity? Since you are done, is there anything you can do to make things easier?
Just realizing how small the startup community really is. I've had drinks with a quarter of the people on that list at Hackers & Founders over the last 3 years.

Cheers, mates. Next round's on you. :)
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That seems reasonable; I didn't actually mean it as a criticism, just an explanation. Publishing only in French has downsides for readability outside France, but as you say, publishing only in English has downsides for readability within France. Most CS researchers and students I've met would prefer the English solution, mostly because they feel that, unlike in fields like philosophy or political science, the average French person isn't interested in reading their work anyway--- the only person who's going to read a theoretical CS thesis is another theoretical CS researcher. And in that case, they'd prefer the international community of theoretical CS researchers to be able to read their work.

Denmark is an interesting example of the opposite case: there are now graduate degree programs where you cannot study in Danish, because all courses and coursework are English-only. That's controversial to some extent, for obvious reasons. It does have some upsides from an international perspective, since Denmark can now hire researchers who don't speak Danish (which is why I'm in Denmark currently), and can also accept PhD students from other countries without requiring them to learn Danish first. But the situation differs from French because Danish has many fewer fluent speakers (about 6 million), so works published in Danish reach an audience much smaller than works published in French do.
With HTTP you still send an ACK for every incoming packet. A friend of mine at university was the technically minded person at his fraternity, and he found that just the outgoing ACK:s were saturating the DSL line.

Media streaming might be done over UDP, depending on the protocol, which should alleviate this a bit.
Yes, this was what I was getting at. I don't want or need to have some physical object that tells me "this is my media". We've been through enough format changes to understand that "this is my media for ten years, then I'll need to convert it or buy it again." Access is the key, not ownership.

That being said, I am deeply concerned about central media control allowing companies and governments to become revisionist; editing out controversial portions of various works as they see fit. I would like to see legislation that would prevent that.
Accoring to http://torontostar.morningstar.ca/globalhome/industry/news.a... Google has 17 Billion offshore and 20 Billion in US they are not as cash strapped as Microsoft which has almost all its cash outside of US.
I certainly would have benefitted from the title being prefixed with "Dear Team17," or "An open letter to Team 17"
Have you read The Selfish Gene, particularly the last chapter, which introduces the concept of a meme? It's good readin', and in exactly the same vein.
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I think that it isn't the value of digital media that has increased... no one values something that is readily available. It is the value of LPs that has significantly decreased in the face of the convenience that digital media provides.
"The voting process was overseen by Wrong Agency Ltd" - An apt name for the situation?
PG - thanks for giving two young guys from the east coast with a crappy prototype a chance!
The problem with this assumption of early virality being important is that the value of this property drops significantly over time. There is a critical inflection point where this pseudo-currency needs to provide value outside of the core group of true believers and if it fails to do so the bubble will pop as true believers eventually fade away and the circle of people who are willing to accept your confederate money becomes smaller and smaller. I see no reason yet to believe that bitcoin will make this transition and a lot of hints that it will in fact fail to make this transition (e.g. the currency is getting too much publicity too early -- it is making itself a target before it has any real social defenses.)
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That's no iPod classic, this is: http://photos.jaisenmathai.com/users/jmathai/photo-large/485...
If it really is your dream job, show it to them; do your research on the company and be prepared to talk about the high points and areas of improvement of the company

Regarding the technical questions, Google some common question to get your mind jogging again; my experience with startups is they don't really ask the standard "reverse a string" type questions, but may ask some trivial derivative usually related to their project

They will definitely ask you about your previous projects, so come prepared to give summaries of what you did in the past

Be enthusiastic, don't completely let yourself go (stay professional, but be yourself), and definitely email them a quick "Thank You" after the interview

Good luck!
More openwashing. It looks like they're fixing problems other than the one that people care about. Also, Oracle has already demonstrated that they will ignore the JCP whenever it disagrees with their interest, so what's the point of revising it?
I haven’t read this book

Oh, excellent.
Talk to a laywer please.
Countdown to Goldman Sachs and then all of Wall Street jumping in ... 5... 4... 3...
Having been to a theatre/performing school for a bit as a kid. They would tell like a 10 year old that they sucked and how they could improve. The kid starts breaking down with visible tears, it's then explained that it's professional criticism. You end up building that skin, and you continue to keep progressing.

That's a wonderful thing to teach. It's too bad we only allow it in competitive extracurriculars (I learned it in youth sports) and never in the classroom. It's being driven out of sports in some places -- my dad is a Little League buff and has observed that the Little League culture in the town where my parents spend their summers is completely "supportive," as opposed to the youth sports culture he and I grew up with, which was pretty friendly (there were some "screamer" coaches, but I never had one) but definitely critical and competitive.

So I grew up knowing how to take criticism, but I also learned that people do not give criticism in any context other than training competitors who had voluntarily signed up for a competitive activity. In any other context, criticism meant personal hostility or a drastic message that you didn't belong or did not have what it takes to succeed. I loved playing sports and happily took a lot of criticism (I wasn't that great at any sport I played) but I felt personally attacked and humiliated when I got any other kind of criticism, because that's what I was taught it meant.
Er, after reading it a second time it's probably intended to be more "This Blog Post's Analytics". The noun/verb issue is easily misread, especially since every other call to action button on that page uses a verb. "Add Comment" "Hide Comments" "Get RSS" "Friend Us" "Follow Us" etc...
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If you don't want to rely on luck you can use a pooled bitcoin mining service (there's lots of them).
What about all the CO2 increases caused by cutting down trees in order to store value on paper, and physically mining gold?
To me, at least, bitcoin isn't about a lottery and it isn't about winning. It's about laying the framework for the foundation of an open and secure currency. Who cares, in the long run, who won the most coins right now? I don't think many people have large stakes of bitcoins that they're hoping to get rich off of.

The mining cost should eventually be reflective of the value of the features of the cryptocurrency. In other words, if you want pseudoanonymous secure p2p transactions, buying bitcoins is like paying for that service. Who's providing the service? The miners, which are just the people keeping the network running so that others can use it.
I wonder if they have three piece suit Fridays. :-)
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Our company (based in Cincinnati) uses a scheduled service charter that flies from a secondary airport to Chicago, NY and DC on great, 30 seat jets; it's a great business model and we love using it - http://ultimateairshuttle.com/ - we feel rich flying it but it's cheaper than United or Delta for the same route + no TSA.
You are more or less correct about the ATC system. You have to file IFR flight plans ahead of time because it takes time for the system to process your flight plan, grant you a clearance, and assign a release time. As the ATC system becomes increasingly saturated, this process takes longer and longer. The system has to plot out every flight and schedule departure times so that you don't get too many airplanes in the same general area at any given time. Even more importantly, they have to make sure that the airports don't get inundated with too many planes at once becuase they only have so many ruways and only one plane can use a runway at a time.

Commercial airports deal with that last problem by selling time slots for passenger flights, which are generally auctioned off at long intervals (e.g. anually), which is not compatible with a "leave when full" business model.
"It's too bad we only allow it in competitive extracurriculars (I learned it in youth sports) and never in the classroom."

Art class was actually pretty brutal, especially from other students. Even worse in Design School where everyone is extra competitive and discerning.

I think it totally depends on what you study.
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It's not a good deal, from the looks of it.

Ask:

- how much equity do they have?

- how much equity is set aside for future employees?

- what happens if they don't get funded within 6 months? Ever?

- why do they not want to give you "power"?

- will they write down the salary and benefits you'll get and the conditions (funding) for that to happen

- what happens if they only raise a small amount of funding?

- will they get salary before you do?

etc.
I'ma bit older than the current generation, and I'm not into owning physical media. Packaged software has seemed obsolete for at least 10 years, and packaged CDs or DVDs just seem absurd. Currently, a CD is a one time vessel to transport high quality audio to my computer to turn into MP3s. I've used the CD drive on my two year old MacBook exactly twice. Buying a CD to get music just seems absurd, but I do like accompanying media. I'd love if my favorite bands would mail me a glossy pamphlet when I bought an album, that is more exciting than a downloadable pamphlet.

My brother, on the other hand, is a bit older and fetishizes music packages. He still has a giant shelf of cassettes, a rack of records, and a huge row of CDs, elaborately alphabetized.
Same, just installed it and it looks great.
Actually there probably are pairs of cities where it could be made to work by using small, low-traffic, convenient-to-the-city airports which can't handle large planes.

I think this was the intent -- fly out of Palwaukee, not O'Hare.
As mentioned elsewhere in this thread it's likely because a significant portion of that $37B is overseas and cannot be brought back into the US without paying US taxes on it. It's quite likely cheaper to take out a bond to raise more money in the US rather than bring overseas cash into the US.
The rolling release model is great, but only if there is a separate stable track (Chrome is a great example of this approach). This distinction assures that developers can stay on the cutting edge and experiment with new ideas, while users keep a working system.

Of course I'm not taking about a Debian-like stable, but a rolling stable delayed at most a couple of weeks, during which the most important bugs can be caught and resolved.

Arch is great, but I would never use it on a production server, the risk is just too high.
I agree with suking, this would be much better as a FB app, something that could be part of your actual profile. It would be nice to see Wall, Info, Photos, Plans
Bitcoin doesn't offer that confidence, though. No currency does, fiat or otherwise. The confidence in a currency comes entirely from the economy that develops around the currency. In other words, the power of a currency comes from what it can be used for, not it's scarcity. If you cannot use Bitcoins, USD, or any other currency, they are worthless.

For example, if an overwhelming majority of people with bitcoins(or USD) decides tomorrow to not ever use them again, then the remainder that have them are screwed. If the places that the currency can be uses cease to exist, the currency is worthless. There isn't any technical solution to this problem, the economy just ceases to exist. Obviously, this is an extreme case, but it's entirely possible that this can happen with any currency over an extended period of time if it doesn't catch on, or if investors lose confidence in the currency itself.
I think that's what a lot of internet users do, myself included. It's so easy to harp on a company for something they are doing and much harder to suggest a feasible course of action that they should take.
Award shows? Rigged? Shocking.

Generally speaking, if you want to win an award to put on your site, get some press, and make VCs and potential acquirers notice you, you need to treat getting that award as a combination of sales, marketing, and PR, and put some budget behind it.

While people tend not to talk about this in public, every once in a while the truth slips out, usually in inside jokes. For example, take a peek at the 'OnMedia 100' square (in the greens) in this recent 'ADTECHOPOLY' spoof from Luma:

http://www.slideshare.net/tkawaja/adtechopoly-7968692
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Uh, that's what import in Python does. It doesn't reimport; it ignores the import request if you've already done it, right? (I must confess I haven't used Python a lot in the last few years, but it used to be my primary language).

So, if you're willing to accept my assertion that Python is a good programming language, then you'll have to agree that that latter capability is the default in at least some good programming languages.

The former capability to which you refer, though, is quite often useful for including template fragments, so I wouldn't want to throw it out, either. If you said, "Hey, these only seem conceptually similar because of the name, and they're really different things", I'd be willing to go with that, I think. Or, if you were to say, "Hey, these are so similar that we shouldn't have a whole separate name for the behavior switch", I'd agree with that, as it's my position. However, it seems as though you're arguing that one of the two behaviors is never needed in a good web application domain language, and I disagree with that.
I guess it is earmarked for linked.in
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Perhaps true for the general case, but not true for people choosing to mine for Bitcoins. An single efficient modern GPU will use most of that 300W by itself when running full out.

http://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=7692.0
So I'm a business selling stocks. I can sell them to a market which will buy them purely on the speculation that they will rise, costing me nothing over time, or I can sell them with a promise to pay the people who buy them money for the rest of the existence of the stock....if the market's willing to buy the purely speculative sort, what economic sense does it make for me, the company, to sell the other?
I like the poster!

By the way, never ask this guy how to make a hammock.
And as an aside: I would never make vague promises that I don't know I can keep to employees. They're asking you to work for free. They should be clear on that, and you should get more equity for that (and with the same rights they have).

Bad deal.
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Thanks for the feedback guys. I've thought a lot about this and have some experience building domain tools. The truth is nobody ever purchases domains through the app.

You need massive volume (like advertising) to make this model work--it's just not there.

Making the app paid lets me keep the service running for the few people who think it's valuable enough to pay for.

This is a better solution I think than shutting down the service all together.

I'm definitely considering an ad-supported or free version, but wanted to start with a paid version first.
The top answer there outlines exactly what's being done in this post.
In the past that's true because why would you want to hijack/blow up your own plane with your business partners / family / friends... but will that remain true if you're booking a private jet with 7 random strangers?
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If this is the first time you've heard about a kernel problem on EC2 you're probably not managing a very large EC2 infrastructure [1, 2]. Even in non-virtualized environments, at scale, it's common to run into linux kernel bugs, or at least peculiarities. Which is why large tech organizations invariably employ kernel dev teams.

The guy who claimed EC2 kernels are linked to the distro you run was simply claiming that, unless you want to go it on your own, you're tied to the kernel provided by a supported AMI. As you've suggested multiple times, there are benefits to running an environment that is supported and that other people have operational experience with. Honestly, I'm not even sure what you're arguing anymore... seems like you're just being antagonistic.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-ec2/
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bugs?field....
"If you look at the best run businesses, they are often composed of people with variable backgrounds - people that approach problems from different perspectives."

Do you have cited studies to back this up?
Nope, but my post was very much influenced by knowing something of how memes work, so that's a nice "comes full circle" moment.
That's actually 0.06% per year. I wish it was per week... there was a time when it was over 5%!
Solid list and congrats to everyone on it.

I'm not a fan of how much emphasis BusinessWeek puts on the funding amount. It really is the only data point they write about. Would like to see revenue or users... or something else.
Worst drawn graphs I've seen online. Kudos! :)
From that article: "Since their inception, universal grammar theories have been subjected to vocal and sustained criticism. In recent years, with the advent of more sophisticated brands of computational modeling and more innovative approaches to the study of language acquisition, these criticisms have multiplied."

It seems likely that there are properties of the human brain and body which would lead to regularities in human languages. However, I believe that the proponents of universal grammar are overstating the case.
That's good advice for long term, but i need to find someone reliable right away and i don't know were to look.

I have tried sites like vworker.com and the coders there, so far, have been very flaky. I don't have time for that, it's an emergency situation.

Thank you for the advice.
Does the PCI standard make any tangible differentiation between having unencrypted versus encrypted credit information pass through my system?

The major advantage of the transparent redirect and similar implementations at other providers is that the data doesn't pass through my server at all. To me this always seemed like a bit of a loophole in PCI compliance. My server that serves up the form which, if hacked, could easily be modified to send credit card details to an attacker is out of scope because it doesn't technically, "accept, transmit or receive" as worded in the PCI docs. Does receiving the data in encrypted format still afford me use of the loophole or are the PCI requirements more stringent than when using transparent redirect?
I was kinda surprised when I heard about this. I always assumed this would have been US policy already. Russia, for example, has already stated in 1996 that it will consider nuclear retaliation for cyber attacks on their country.

Source: http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj96/spec96...