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I agree it is much too short, but I think we need a good solid baby boom before we will take arms in the near future.

I was also thinking that economics and not war are behind the spread of the English language. You could argue that movies (culture) also cause people to learn a language, but the movies are coming from the place that has the money and industry to make them.
> injects the row via the extension when accessed from an unknown IP

Not so sure that would work. You'd have to first get the guy who stole your email account to install a custom browser extension.
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> The problem is that I don't really have a network in any startup hubs.

My company is located in Boston, and we recently hired a guy out of Chicago based on a posting he made in a Scala forum and a half day of interviews with the team. It's very competitive out there right now, so a person with fifteen years experience, eleven in .Net and an interest in learning new technologies is going to be in high demand. Don't box yourself in as we also do [some] C, C++, Java and even PHP. They key to being an asset to a startup is having domain expertise but also being readily adaptable to providing solutions for the myriad of cases that arise when you're chasing business.

If you're worried about people not giving you your due because you don't subscribe to a particular language or framework, then you're better off not working with them as that's a warning sign of entrenchment.

You're at a point where you can basically target the companies where you'd want to work versus taking whatever is available. Go forth and do likewise. Good luck!
But aren't there services that address their needs.
Groupon, despite all it's criticisms does that. It gives people a deal on local goods and services. Mint helps them get a better overview of their finances. Airbnb may help them find a reasonably priced place to stay should they travel. This is just a short list. There's more out there than photo sharing apps and social games.
In fact, I think some of these tools serve people in places like these better and, at least in the case of Groupon, may do more for a merchant in a small town than a big city. Personally I've never understood why someone would want to pay high rents to live in a city like manhattan and then look for a deal on a sandwich.
That something is plausible is not evidence that it happened.
As you read:

1. Write notes in a separate, clean notebook.

2. Ask questions. Write down the questions.

3. Read fewer books, but read them well.

For me, writing and asking questions significantly enhance reading comprehension.
IMO, if you want to affect people's everyday lives in meaningful (but possibly unglamorous) ways, take your wit and your problem solving abilities and your leadership skills to local government. City, county. School board, PTA coach a youth sports team, or teach a class.

The fact is that the startup world is one where extremely rich people give money to already pretty wealthy people (in relative terms: not just money, but education, social standing) to find ways to make them richer. Usually in the form of some kind of mass entertainment experience.

I don't meant to diminish the positive and transformative effects many of the inventions of the startup/Internet age have had on society and people as a whole. But if you are really primarily interested in making people's lives better, start with the real social network first. In the hierarchy of needs, a better photo sharing service is way down on the list.
I think there is a lot of money to be made by startups that take on some of those uninteresting banking/financial domains - look for one of them. Also, take a look at Advent Software [1] if you are at all interested in moving to San Francisco. They are not a startup but they have some things going for them and they use .Net pretty extensively these days. A move like that could get you half way and you can then begin to develop your network.

[1] http://www.advent.com
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As I understand it, the app used private APIs, which means it did not meet "every knowable requirement for being included."
> I don't have a way to do it with paper flashcards ...

Most people separate paper flashcards into two piles as they go, one for those they got right and one for those they got wrong.
i shake my head when i see stories like this. it tells me that mainstream culture has gotten so far from common senses when it comes to some things, like food. A vegetable garden has become an innovative idea.

however, i appreciate people's efforts to correct the situation.

i see immigrant homes (Chinese, Indian, Italian, Greek, Vietnamese), on the less desirable side of town with fantastic vegetable gardens. instead of planting decorative trees, people planted fruit producing trees. but when someone on the more desirable side of town makes a small little garden, they make the front page of the newspaper :(
I love this post, because I feel exactly the same way. And maybe it's because I'm from Chicagoland and currently live here.

I feel like often times, the majority of startups in Silicon Valley are working on really cool ideas, apps, and solutions, but for problems that very few "everyday" people have.

And that's not a bad thing. Solving a specific problem for a specific (big or small) group of people is great.

But part of me wishes sometimes that more folks in the traditional Silicon Valley startup ecosystem would use all those resources to make real change in other parts of this world.

Yeah, that's probably naive.

After all, at the end of the day, it is business.
"Buy one, get 202 free!"
One of my dreams with building a startup is to be independent and pour my energy and passion into something that I own. I don't perceive that as unsubstantial.
"It will probably not be known until August or September whether Fedora 16, which is planned for the end of October, will actually use Btrfs as the standard, because testers and developers need time to gain additional experience with the upcoming alpha and beta versions."
I don't care for store bought tomatoes either. The difference between a homegrown tomato and one that you buy in the store is huge. I really don't even think of them as the same fruit.

Looking forward to my black krims, mr. stripeys and brandywines....
Said perfectly.
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Considering the recent financial difficulties (and heck, the fact that the UK is still not quite in there), I wonder how large the mindshare for a pan-European dream is right now.

But thanks for the tip, I'll add it to my reading stack.
I'm guessing the reason why they feel heathier after eating food they grew themselves is the placebo effect.
Yes, that should be in the title.
To be fair, "more than enough" depends on the problem being addressed. It's trivial to have tens of thousands of concurrent connections on a $20/month VPS. You get 100 concurrent connections on PusherApp for $20/month. That's a huge difference. Sure, it just works and you do no administration, etc. PusherApp seems like a convenience service for startups with money to burn.
They say they give that food to their employees and friends so they're not really saying everyone should grow their own food (just that people should eat locally/naturally grown food). Besides, you wouldn't realistically grow everything yourself anyway.
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Don't just highlight. Take notes for all the concepts, but instead of writing the passage down verbatim, paraphrase it and include a page number for reference later.

Bring up the more interesting concepts in discussions and gather your friends' thoughts on them.
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But, I like the idea of an unpersonal computer. Right now the only thing that really makes my laptop different than my friend's laptop is the stickers on the cover and some MS Office shortcuts I set. My data is mostly unimportant, and already in Dropbox/Gmail so I can access it anywhere.

A majority of people are significantly helped by this strategy, not hurt.
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Who Speaks for Geek Culture?
«A classic is a book that everyone wants to have read but nobody wants to read.»

Guess which «geek anti-intellectual» said that. Mark Twain.
I wish this were true everywhere, but as it stands, I am jealous that it only takes twenty minutes for his machine to boot.
Since Gmail records the IP of anyone accessing, if you're really paranoid, there could be a setting that lets you specify what IPs you will access it from.

That would be really inconvenient if you wanted to check it from elsewhere...
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Even if you have chickens walking around and pooping throughout your garden?
No way. Say I bought 49 coins for 49$. I wouldn't use them to buy one month of vps. I would convert them to ~1400$ and use 118 of those good old dollars to buy the service, tell myself how clever I am and spend the rest on cocaine or something like that.
The comments, so far, seem to perceive this change as negative. I, myself, think it is something really good for the overall innovation int the FOSS ecology to have a distro comited to testing new features.
I think you've misread the part about the grants. Its not that they're being taken back, its that the state law would prohibit the state university from undertaking the actions the federal grants are for. Since the university can't undertake the actions the money was given for, it must return the money. Any money already spent towards the grant goals would, I suspect, need not be returned.
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When they get hungry enough they will eat.
CSAs are more likely to be the future (Community Supported Agriculture). It combines pretty much all the benefits of growing the food yourself while still letting a farmer run a farm effectively.

The general idea of CSA is that small to medium farms sell shares of their crop each season. That money funds their operation, and they produce a variable and generous amount of crop for each shareholder. The price is competitive and there's economies of scale, with the guarantee of knowing where and how the food is produced. Of course, its not for everyone, but its a better bet for most people who'd like to grow their own crops but don't have time/knowledge/space etc.
IMHO, they probably freaked out everybody is eyeing HTML5 as a viable cross-platform app alternative.
>But aren't there services that address their needs. Groupon, despite all it's criticisms does that. It gives people a deal on local goods and services. Mint helps them get a better overview of their finances. Airbnb may help them find a reasonably priced place to stay should they travel.

I don't think he was saying that there weren't. What he is saying is that if, say, GroupOn turns out to be, as has been predicted by a recent swarm of articles, a failure, it has an overall neutral impact at best for the Tupeloids despite having an excellent impact for its founder, who by this point is clearly going to walk away laughing all the way to the bank even if the IPO tanks or something else happens. He's basically saying to remember that what we do has consequences for people whom we usually never encounter.
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Why not just a canary that a (unknown) IP has logged into the account? Gmail displays the logged in IPs. How hard would it be to grab that info into similar notifications? Add to that reverse look ups and you could get a IP and location. Train the system through use and you'll quickly get a white list.

I'd pay for that service.
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I'm guessing your guessing is wish fulfillment.
Does it even matter who speaks for geek culture?

No, it does not. The great thing about tech culture is that there is no leader. Most people who are considered influential, is due to merit, and even then it's only within their area of expertise that they are considered authoritative.

The fact that there is vigorous debate over Larry Sanger's article proves this. It wasn't as if Larry (not that he would) declared that geeks were anti-intellectual, and BOOM! that became the common wisdom.
The always-on home server solution is what FSF's Eben Moglen is promoting via the Freedom Box project:

http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
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I think it is more an argument for quality control in mass production of vegetables than to ignore the advantages of the division of labour.

We grow tomatoes. It takes lots of water and food and months and care, but they're like our babies when they are born (only good for roasting, and we feel proud).

Lidl, a German discount supermarket, sells good cherry tomatoes => it is possible for good tomatoes to be mass produced, but they are not easy to find.
Of COURSE. Why would anyone think anything else?

For more, let's start with source code. Suppose we have source code line

a = b*c

Reading this line, we want to know what it does and check that it's correct. So, we need to know what the line 'means'.

But, we conclude that

a = b*c

doesn't really mean anything.

Of course if we saw

F = m*a

we might guess that the variable names were mnemonic and guess Newton's second law that force equals mass times acceleration. Okay, now we know what the line means and can check if it's correct.

Okay, we are beginning to see:

A line of code such as

a = b*c

doesn't mean anything. So, we have nothing to read and no way to check. So, we don't have anything.

We could write

F = m*a

and begin to guess what this means. But we are still in trouble: We still have no good way to communicate meaning to permit understanding or checking.

So, we have to ask,

F = m*a

came from physics books, and what did those books do? Well, they wrote in a natural language, say, English. Always, an equation such as

F = m*a

was just an abbreviation of what was said in English. And, in particular, from the English there was no question about the meaning of each of the variables.

Net, math, and science with math, are written in complete sentences in a natural language. The variables are all clearly defined, discussed, explained, etc. At no time is an algebraic expression of such variables regarded as a substitute for the natural language. Take a physics book, throwout the English and leave just the equations, and will have nothing.

Physics and math understand; so far computing does not.

So computing tries to write

force = mass*acceleration

or some such and omit the English. For simple things, can get by this way. Otherwise, this approach is hopeless, at best presents the reader a puzzle problem of guessing.

The matter of using mnemonic variable names as parts of speech in English is a grand mistake but common in writing in computer science. Bummer.

Bluntly computing has not figured out that there is so far just one way to communicate meaning: Use complete sentences in a natural language. Period. That's all we've got. But computing has fooled itself into believing that algebraic expressions with mnemonic variable names form a 'new language' that, in computer source code, can provide the needed meaning without a natural language. Wrong.

For

F = m*a

the situation is simple. But significant source code has much more complicated cases of 'meaning' to communicate. Again, computing tries to get by, say, using a big library of software classes, relying the mnemonic spelling of the classes and members and the documentation of the classes. In simple cases, can get by this way. But fundamentally, for some complicated code, the meaning, workings, etc. just must be explained, and there's only one way to do this: Complete sentences.

So, writing these complete sentences to communicate meaning effectively is 'writing'.

Done!
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His friends are a lawyer and a teacher. There are also tons of startups in the education space, and a few relevant to lawyers. I think it is a good reminder that photo sharing gets a disproportionate amount of coverage inside the echo chamber relative to its actual importance.
This is not definite. The feature has to go through a bunch of hoops first[1][2]. It was only conditionally approved in the meeting yesterday, assuming everything works by the time F16 comes around. Previous big features have been pulled at the last minute (notably systemd in F14 was pulled right before release[3], and only made it into F15).

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/F16BtrfsDefaultF...

[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=689509...

[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/139...
I noticed LaunchBox in the article and with all the Durham-ites replying to this post, it's a perfect time to ask: Are they still a thing? Their website shows no signs of having the program again this year and their last blog post was in February.
The problem with a cap - or rather calling a cap a valuation - is that unsophisticated entrepreneurs don't understand the consequences of the cap. To you point about entrepreneurs offering terms, I find that terms are negotiated and that angels are the ones who suggest a cap (and call it a valuation). The problem comes when the naive entrepreneur finds out what a cap really is. This is where they lose focus on building the most value with the capital they have raised and start focusing on the investors who "screwed" them. Once this realization is made, entrepreneurs will try to raise a series A _at a valuation equal to the cap_. After all, why try to add more value when it will go disproportionately to those investors who added a cap and called it a valuation.

Anyway. I understand that caps are a way for investors to avoid dilution in massively up rounds. I just think they are the worst way to do it. It gives the entrepreneurs the incentive to raise their next round at the cap and not a penny more. In my opinion, a good deal will give the entrepreneur the incentive to raise the next round at the highest valuation possible and not at some arbitrary number. If you want anti-dilution protection as an investor, I think warrants are a much better tool. They allow you, as an investor, to maintain a desired percentage of your portfolio company without removing the entrepreneurs incentive to go for the highest valuation possible in the next round.

At the end of the day, the most important thing is the relationship between entrepreneur and investor. And this is where I have the biggest problem calling a cap a valuation. It can really destroy the bond of trust and leave an entrepreneur feeling screwed. That's just not a good mindset to start a company from.
I know the founders at Rent the Runway, and they just posted for a social media person.

"JOB OPPORTUNITY: Rent the Runway’s brand marketing team is seeking a social media specialist with an entrepreneurial spirit, superior writing skills and 1-3 years of relevant experience. The ideal candidate is a creative individual with a passion for writing and a love of fashion. This is a unique opportunity to help define the future of social media for a fast-growing fashion brand."

Connect with me @davidgoldberg if she is interested and I can forward her CV on.
10 lbs/day/100sf? Seriously? Not in my climate.

I get about 200lbs of potatoes/year out of ~1000 sf. That's one crop a year. I get a year's supply of garlic in another 100sf or so.

Slugs ate my greens this year, so we're at 0 lbs/40sf so far, though there are some chard coming on.

The chickens were doing well till spring, when they molted and went from ~.9egg/hen/day to about .4/hen/day, so the price per egg went from ~15c to ~30c.

Had to build a greenhouse for the tomatoes after getting nearly none last year, so the first one's going to cost $150, but the second one will be cheap.
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My two favorite quotes about Accenture are:

"Accenture is a great place to be from" <-- not a great place to be at long term, but your learn a lot, you get to see how the enterprise world works, you make connections with other smart people who will help you for the rest of your professional career, and it is great on a resume.

"At Accenture the great employees leave, the weak are fired, and the mediocre become partners"
Sure, for experiments like this that are playing with vendor specific properties. This is an outlier.

The great thing now is, for most regular old websites, I can just write the CSS and expect it to work reasonably well in any of the latest generation browsers.
I live in Memphis, TN (a couple of hours northwest of Tupelo, MS). I moved back to Memphis in 2008 after a couple of years in San Jose working for the Paypal and Microplace divisions of eBay.

One of the reasons for moving back was to have a meaningful and positive impact through entrepreneurship. How much impact would a company (say, a web startup) making $2M - $3M in annual revenues have in Silicon Valley? Very little, in my opinion. However, the same company located in a community like Memphis would have a tremendous positive impact -- not only on the local economy, but on the local psyche. And this is important to me.

I often wonder if this is really important to others, though. It's an honest question: do we believe that American society needs the Memphises and Tupeloes and Detroits and Clevelands? If so, we really should reach out and do something about it.

If not, fair enough.

And for what it's worth, the move back to Memphis has been incredibly enriching for me. I'm very happy I did it. The relatively low cost of living has provided an excellent opportunity for me work on various projects and live a much more balanced life than I felt was possible when my family lived in the valley. I'm currently working on my second startup attempt here and I'm thrilled about it. Look for a "Show HN" post soon.
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>In the hierarchy of needs, a better photo sharing service is way down on the list.

The problem with this line of thinking is that needs are a vector, not a scalar, and while one form of contribution may have a larger norm, all forms of contribution are eventually important. Irrelevant of considerations about the precise norm of the contribution-vector, soceity thrives on having people contribute in loads of different ways; if we were all oncologists there would be nobody who could treat heart disease, etc.

I say do what you're good at, mostly, and charity where you can.
Good point, as long as you trust your 'hoster', you have a speedy internet connection, and willing to buy online storage.
This made the rounds a few months ago and it's still the right way to go: http://giveupandusemultiplebrowsers.com/
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Actually, places like Accenture do tend to hire better looking people. Especially women. That goes into the whole "chicks making charts strategy" people joke about.
You may have meant http://highscalability.com
Just finished spending about $200 to get my garden going this year. I always look at it as an investment.