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background/what I need:
im currently working, but I'll be gone in a month. I plan to go to canada somewhen this winter, to learn some more english. now my mom doesnt want me to sit around this time, what I completly understand. So I thought, I could work on some projects of me, 8 hours per day. The problem is, she thinks I would just say I do something, but actually do nothing/not much. So I need to proof that I actually do something. Versioning doesnt work, since small changes can take long, and big changes short. So I need someone who looks over my project, keeps me going, and reports the status to her.

the project:

sang is a project, which just started this sunday, it will be a 3d engine, written in python. Why I write a game engine? Because there is no native game engine for python. Just some wrappers, which are sometimes pretty hard to get compiled. The project is hosted on github, the repository is created by someone else (just didnt find the time).
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An absolutely thumbs up for the idea behind. It looks so well executed on a beautiful refined layout. Success.
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They are at least as useful as binoculars and most households have those.
No, it wouldn't work.

The reason why is at the very heart of copyright law. You need to learn this area.

Owning copyright to a work gives the owner EXCLUSIVE rights to distribution of that work.

Therefore, just because you sold a legal copy to a user via Amazon you do not have the right to broadcast the work on your website. Only the copyright owner can do that, because he has exclusive distribution rights. Your broadcast isn't authorized even though you selling DVDs is authorized.

Be careful with this stuff. In my opinion you are playing with fire here. The RIAA has no problems with burying people who distribute songs illegally. MPAA has done less of this, but you don't want to be the example.
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The word "startup" has almost reached the status of buzzword. "Cloud based startup" would have been even better..
from http://www.macworld.com/article/160098/2011/05/macdefender.h...

"Windows 7 is actually more secure than OS X, but the gap narrows every year. And there simply isn’t the same attack ecosystem for Macs, nor are we likely to see one develop.

So while Mac users will likely see more malware, it’s highly improbable we (or Windows 7 users) will ever experience what those who are still running Windows XP battle today.

But two other factors are changing the Mac security landscape. First, Apple products are growing rapidly in popularity. At the same time, the overall Internet security environment is more hostile than a cantina on Tatooine."
The article is from 2008. Since then, the so called parallel DB goes no where, and Hadoop takes over the world.

The main problem of traditional (OLAP) DBMS in the era of big data is that ETL (Extract/Transform/Load) becomes the main bottle neck rather than complex queries, as big data is inherently semi-structured and noisy. MR is the tool to process big data.
Grain of salt, sure, but it's enough for me as a foreigner to never want to invest in Russia or do business with Russia (or similar states like China). The rule of law is sublimely important in having a functioning business economy.

Maybe Russia is worse than China in that China everyone knows the rule is that you have to sell out to the government when they ask, and in Russia naive entrepreneurs are going to jail en masse.
No way, I love the name. Original, quick to say (3 syllables), caters to a younger crowd.
Of course we look at the past. But how would you summarise the last 2 decades in the ex-USSR region from the point of view of 'Business Friendliness'. Is it getting better or worse? Are our standards changing, I certainly hope they are.
Maybe if you could get $90-100k per year...

As others have said, those options you're being offered have a really low expected value, so I would only recommend working for this company if you can make it up on salary and really want some startup experience.

Also, this might be a good time to remember that if you're staying at where you are working now, you can use offers from other companies as an excuse to ask for a raise.
I don't know about others, but the reason I love desktop Linux is because of it's modularity. I can use Gnome, KDE or whatever other applications with whatever window manager I choose, and it all works. In an era where everything is being dumbed down for the lowest common denominator, I'm just glad that there is one environment where power users can flourish.
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All those innovation are in GUI area, and they have little to do with Linux (as a kernel). For example, One could easily run KDE on Windows. So the source should be "FOSS", not "Linux".
This whole thread gave me an idea:

How about Microsoft focus exclusively on enterprise and enable all these consumer devices to work seamlessly with their enterprise software? I don't believe Ballmer can do that.
I was thinking of the cycle that startups typically go through in trying to discover what makes their business tick as I wrote the article, but you're completely right that it's also applicable to pretty much any company on the web.

I think Abe Lincoln said "If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will."
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I own both a Galaxy S II (Android 2.3) and an iPhone 3GS. IMHO, Android has the lead on the user interface.

Reuse of components and events provided by other apps is at the heart of Android, the system notifications are better, it has desktop widgets that are actually useful, keyboard interaction for writing text is better (I love copy/pasting or moving the text-cursor around on my Android) and you can use the back-button everywhere (just as on the web).

The only problem with Android is that many apps available in Google's Market are really shitty. Skype itself, which works fine on the iPhone, will bleed my battery dry in only 3-4 hours, with that same battery being able to last for 3 days with 3G + email-sync enabled.

If they get the market story straight, I'm sorry for the contestants, but Android is a competition killer.
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CCIS student here. I've only taken Fundies 1, but I really enjoy working in Racket so I'm kind of stoked for this.
Be wary in drawing clear distinctions between scientists and bureaucrats, because figures such as presidents or directors of scientific institutions, here in Italy, are usually more bureaucrats or politicians than scientists, and their actions or statements might not be motivated by science alone.

So while it might be fun to imagine us italians running with our pitchforks after a bunch of lab-rats to burn them at the stake for their failure at quake-prediction, what's really happening is that a prosecutor has doubts about the “quality” of work of some people paid lotsa public money to be part of a committee whose task was to assess seismic risks for that area at that time. Was the risk assessed correctly or not?

And if not, why?

Note how (http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100622/full/465992a.html) nobody is willing to take responsibility for the reassuring statements that in the end convinced the otherwise alarmed population to stay at home. The scientists say that the meeting was too short to consider all the data, while the civil protection agency responds to them that they should have not waited six months to object to that.

An aside: back in 2009, before and after the quake, there was one guy claiming to be able to foresee when and where earthquakes would strike with a certain precision by measuring radon emissions. Except the quake he foresaw a week earlier nearby L'Aquila never happened, and after the big one caused 300 deaths, he went on record saying to have foreseen it by something like 6 to 24 hours, depending on which interview. He became somewhat popular at the time, and probably still is, to the point that the public opinion might be left with the notion that quakes can indeed be foreseen - this trial might not be that bad thing for science after all.
Yes, it's not clear to me that once we eliminate death that we will still be human, but hopefully we won't have eliminated life at the same time.
"How on Earth did they come up with that estimate?"

What does it matter when the "interesting thing is the quality of life" and when “the same could be said of American entrepreneurs" who deal drugs? The truth of the matter and the logical conclusions drawn from the example are lost on the all to willing ignorant. Too many Americans are contemptuous of their own freedoms.
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Ashton has been a very helpful angel for us and he uses so many tech products that he actually gives great advice.

Him not being part of the valley is a plus! Every VC knows the same exact execs at Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, etc, so you get little benefit from having multiple Sand Hill Road VCs on your team. Ashton can connect you to a whole different world of people and influencers who could really help your company.

I want more Ashtons.
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You've made this remark twice now.
The fact is that Heroku have always been open this sort of scaling (and there's a fork of delayed_job which does autoscaling of workers on Heroku and... it's written by a Heroku employee. It's regularly mentioned on the mailing list too.

https://github.com/pedro/delayed_job/tree/autoscaling
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It may be helpful to remember that they were not 'scientists' at a meeting. They were members of a committee (Grandi Rischi), part of a government agency (Protezione Civile). They are accused because of their public 'role'. The title is somewhat misleading, it should be: "Italian Major Risks Committee to be tried etc.", if you search in italian press the trial is called "Processo grandi rischi", "Major Risks trial".

(My opinion is that the congress was just a 'public relations' thing to 'reassure' people. The words "the scientific community tells me there is no danger", served, very likely, as an excuse for the 'politicians' to do nothing in order to prevent risks [because of the typical italian cynicism, I can't assure they were not aware of the misuse of their words.]

Please note that after the earthquake the public debate was focused on the stupid problem of 'prediction of earthquakes'. Yes we can't predict earthquakes, but we can predict the effect and take measures in order to prevent risks. And it is clear that nothing was done.)

[Excuse me for my bad english.]
That is from the definition: «Fear, uncertainty and doubt, frequently abbreviated as FUD, is a tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics and propaganda. FUD is generally a strategic attempt to influence public perception by disseminating negative and dubious/false information designed to undermine the credibility of their beliefs.» (Wikipedia)

And I am not talking about the whole article, only the dubious "1 in 6, 1 in 3" statement.
Not well researched. For instance: Map-Reduce is not used to index data or to replace indexing. This is just one point. There are so many wrong assumptions in this article, that I don't know where to begin.
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Hi I am tech guy has a decent team of 4-5 members (all nerds). We have good competence in PHP,Python etc. What products would you either as owner or employee of SME like to be built?
What's your opinion on more Privacy, more User Control and NO Apps & Games?

Sounds extremely boring to me.
This is filled with disenguous statements, but I'll pick on one of them.

You use the word "destroy". Thiel doesn't want to destroy universities. He thinks their product is overvalued and that the price should be lower. One reality where the price of college was revalued would be one where a whole lot less people go to college, unless supply and demand becomes even more borked.
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It's also possible they have a huge amount of content that is sparsely accessed by a large number of users. But in general I agree.

Edit: SmugMug seems to fall into this category: http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2010/07/15/great-idea-google-sh...

Also interesting:

And if you think about it, the robots are much harder to optimize for – they’re crawling the long tail, which totally annihilates your caching layers. Humans are much easier to predict and optimize for.
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I doubt anyone wants this. Facebook, Twitter, and Google are already brands. Nobody says, "I want to do social networking! I'm going to type social.com!" They just google Facebook and go there.
yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense..

Guess the only valid point is 3: "Not novel at all — it represents a specific implementation of well known techniques developed nearly 25 years ago"
Probably true..
I guess what he really means is Gnome, KDE. But never the less, it's a pretty polarized view he tries to portrait.
hm, a bunch of ip adresses,whats so special?
Linux isn't just its kernel, by Linux we usually mean some distribution with most utilities readily available in packages. I can't buy a mobile device in the shop and install working Linux distribution without hacks, it feels wrong.
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Actually, you're wrong. Unless you don't count Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and some others as Post-Soviet countries. You could, eventually, be right about Ukraine and Belarus though.
Bullshit semantics. Drugs are not legal. They are in jail for breaking the law, and possibly destroying the lives of addicts. Not creating jobs, and resisting a corrupt shakedown.

You can run a legal business in the US with only a tiny chance of being imprisoned for it.
Maybe somebody wants you to not consider investing in Russia or China, so these kind of "news" are told.

The corruption exists, and it may be more so than in other countries comparativly, that does not mean it is not safe to do business in Russia, it just means that the corruption is open enough so we know about it, unlike the highly advanced countries where the corruption is a similary advanced skill.
What format would the indexes be made available in? Raw lists of URLs and caches of the HTML pages, or pre-built inverted indexes, PageRank data, etc?

If it's the former all this really does is move the burden from sites to Google, and introduces a single point of failure.

If it's the latter, which seems unlikely, what incentive does Google have to share that data? It's part of their competitive advantage.
Much of the problem of naming things is that the name you give them now, is unlikely to be the most appropriate name in the future. For example, your code may change, you may make other similar classes that would be more appropriate with that name, etc.

The strategy I use is to iterate naming, just as I would any other aspect of code. You are unlikely to want to do this as often, but if you find your current names are no longer working for you, it might be time for a change.
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It's all down to quality. A high-quality pair of binoculars cost you £200 or more, and I doubt most households would ever consider spending that much.

Then you move onto the actual differences between the two. Most binoculars contain some lenses and other small components (admittedly the more expensive ones now also include rangefingers etc). Even the most basic (true) NVG by comparison require image sensor, processor and display.

Then you move up to the good goggles. These are the ones with anti-flare protection, more realistic colour and higher gain so you don't need an IR source (which lights you up like a christmas tree).

At the end of the day, NVG aren't just binoculars with some fancy lenses.
There are only two long term solutions:
- an anti-vir scanner which constantly monitors all your files, hogs resources and plays the game of cat & mouse
- Prevent users from installing software that wasn’t from the Mac App Store, just like on iOS.

The last is a nuclear option and not practicable for a professional desktop system. But I would like this as a configurable option for my parents. (Withholding the admin password from them is another possibility, but, well, see the article)
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Agreed - I certainly don't see anything that I'd call 'innovation', and there is nothing on any open source desktop that would send me off to my friends and relatives houses to switch them from OS X or Windows.
Would you consider taking a screenshot of how that looks?
I'm not flirting with the "true Scotsman" here, but the problem is the definition of what is legal. I'm positive Dmitry Malov did break a number of laws - as an entrepreneur in an ex-communist country I understand very well that this is unavoidable. The problem is that the law is designed to be broken, in order to facilitate corruption - something no country is completely immune to.

This is not very different from drugs, either. I still have to see a clear study that marijuana is more harmful then either tobacco or alcohol, and that it's not merely an accident of history supported by commercial and political interests that it is now illegal and the other two aren't. Not as bad as blatant corruption, true, but not semantics either.
Windows 1 used tiled windows (MS programmers didn't learn how to overlap windows until Windows 2) and Emacs has them since the 70's. I am not sure if tiling windows could be called innovation.
I think the idea was that only Google will crawl your site and update the index, then the rest of the search engines will use the index instead of hitting your site.
Yahoo boys taking care of business? Quite unrelated, but I bet a lot of Lagos youth wouldn't do bad in the Valley.
As a self taught programmer, I am puzzled by the importance people seem to put on understanding the internals of compilers. Given that I already know what a compiler is and does (at least I think I do), can somebody explain why studying compiler design is more edifying than, say, spreadsheet design?
"And these are some of the most radical and exciting new features MacOS X has had to offer since its initial release over 10 years ago."

What a trollish statement.
Microsoft might though, would certainly be more relevant than the amorphous live.com.
Even if your site is not an ecommerce site set up fake or 'pseudo-ecommerce' where you make up values, say $1, for key metrics like a sign-up.

Conversion rates give you 'value':
- 500 visits from source A, 10 sign ups, 2% conversion rate
- 100 visits from source B, 10 sign ups, 10% conversion rate
I spent the last ten years writing intranet apps and evaluated and rejected EXT and similar frameworks several times because it just didn't meet our internal users' needs. They preferred our lightweight interfaces that rendered quickly and well on all kinds of different devices.

However, our environment was a little unusual in that we were able to mandate reasonably modern browsers (FF 3+, Webkit).
Please, please don't suggest it's the fault of the people paying the money. It's a system problem, and it's clearly encouraged from the top. I've seen it happen in many contexts...
Interesting quote on PowerPoint:

Tufte dissected NASA’s PowerPoint slides on his Web site, showing that the program didn’t allow engineers to write in scientific notation and replaced complex quantitative measurement with imprecise words like “significant.” He then published a twenty-eight-page essay called “The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint,” in which he analyzed hundreds of existing PowerPoint slides and showed that the statistical graphics used in PowerPoint presentations show an average of twelve numbers each, which, in Tufte’s analysis, ranks it below every major world publication except for Pravda. The low information density of PowerPoint is “approaching dementia,” he wrote.
I found "Designing Interfaces" disappointing. It is a list of interface widgets - for example an accordion menu - and some information about how to use it.

A far better book on usability is "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug.
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I still think the greatest innovation in Linux distros is package management.
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> And the menu appears on different screens

Actually, it's an advantage. Have you tried to use the menu on monitor 1 when the app is on monitor 3 of your Mac?
This, this, this. Ashton Kutcher is, in all likelihood, a much better representative of one of the demographics Airbnb would like to access (wealthy hipsters) than any VC would be. The whole game is understanding your audience.

He's a professional entertainer and producer - someone very skilled at connecting with the customers Airbnb want, half of whom probably grew up watching Punk'd - with ungodly reach on Twitter.

That's rarer, and harder to buy, than deep technical skill. That you can buy with cash and equity.
I'd adore a Google Earth overlay that showed rentals and/or homes for sale (preferably grabbed according to my own criteria) so that I can use things like drive time to important locations, school boundaries, etc. to find places I'd like to live.

The mapping that existing real estate and rental listing sites use are frustrating to me because searching by location is clunky -- by city or zip code or even distance as the bird flies is too vague. I want to make sure I don't spend my life commuting, that going to our dojo isn't a prohibitively long trip, that I like the school my child would be in, and that there's a nearby grocery store or grocery delivery that suits my dietary restrictions.

I want to be able to overlay whatever data is important to me -- elementary school boundaries, grocery stores or delivery areas, traffic patterns, etc -- on my home search.

I want to be able to pick a few locations and specify maximum drive times for each, then find places in the overlap (bonus points if I can input my schedule so typical traffic patterns are considered).

I have no idea how you'd make money off of it, though. :/
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