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You've probably not met good business people but "idea guys" that, as you say, have the greatest idea since sliced bread and want you to build it for 5% equity. These people are a dime a dozen and generally worthless.

The thing is that good business people are exactly like good hackers: Very rare. Good business people will never approach you with a good idea, they'll approach you with a thought-out strategy, proof of concept, money and customers. The idea guys are like people that have once made a wordpress theme and know basic HTML calling themselves hackers.

business people get a bad rep because everyone thinks they can be one if they can come up with a decent idea and wave their arms around a bit.

Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Safe place? Ask investors in Argentine, Russian, and Greek government debt about that.

The U.S. government is already working to cheat its debt investors by repaying them with devalued printed paper. One could argue that U.S. government debt is one of the least safe investments out there. You will get repaid, but it will be in devalued currency. That dollar you invested 5 years ago, for example, only buys about 1/3 as much oil as it did when you invested it. That is a catastrophic loss.
Having an idea to fit a vision is your starting altitude. Great execution takes it to the stars.
The starting altitude does matter.

It's really honestly all about teamwork - not some tit-for-tat, we are better than you. So don't perpetuate it.
I'm not saying that's the case here, but surely cryptographers are just as corruptible as everyone else.

There's nothing preventing a scenario where someone with nefarious intent and a large pile of money convinces a skillful cryptographer into building a cipher robust enough be resistant to cryptanalysis.

(I'm not your downvoter by the way)
Average price/earnout in talent acquisition?
What's the average price-per-head (including earnouts) in a talent acquisition? I've heard between 500k - 1M per head... is this the going rate?
Uhhh...what?

Try 'working conditions'...or actually...try 'just getting a job'.

You must know some super rich Chinese young people if their number one complaint is Google access.
Wow. We hire almost every intern that works for us, unless they suck. Internships are also normally done pre-graduation from college. It is not a job, it is in exchange for college credit. We hire the day they graduate.

But it is also up to the intern to decide whether or not our internship is right for them. A overgeneralized diatribe like the one posted is aiming to get people to not intern at all, whereas the appropriate act would be to critically evaluate your options, and make an informed decision about each specific company.
The link text is usually from the page's <title> element. The text in black following is sometimes taken from the page's <meta name=description>, and sometimes from text on the page Google feels is relevant.

I think that is what you mean by "header" and "subheader"; if not, please clarify.
People made unemployed by the minimum wage require more benefits than they would if they could be gainfully employed at (e.g.) 50% of minimum wage.
A friend invited me using this exact "loophole", and I used it to successfully invite a few friends.

Google+ is spreading virally in my social network, despite Google's attempts to limit the number of users :)
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It's hard for me to imagine it having much mass adoption -- it's just too similar to Facebook, and its killer-feature, Circles, is of dubious value to the non-OCD, non-geek set (do normal people care about sorting their friends into various groups?).

That said, a la the XKCD comic, I could see it being personally useful to me as a way to stay in touch with people who refuse to use / have left Facebook, but have no such compunctions for a Google product. I.e., I could see it becoming a place where the "cool kids" hang out.

I'm curious what Google's response will be if G+ only gets a limited amount of adoption. Will they just give up on it, like Wave, or will they keep pounding away & improving it?

It's been noted that today's Google is like yesterday's Microsoft, incredibly aggressively moving in on any perceived threats, but yesterday's MS would keep iterating an unpopular product until it was successful, whereas Google seems to be taking the "keep trying shit until we have an instant hit" approach. (Perhaps they were spoiled by search & gmail, where they were able to introduce truly game-changing improvements over the status-quo.)
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The iPod wasn't the first mp3 player.

Facebook wasn't the first social networking site.

Google wasn't the first search engine.

Windows/Mac/Unix weren't the first operating systems.

Taking ideas from competitors and improving upon them is a fundamental part of business. No one actually thinks that coming up with a product concept is the same as delivering a product that users actually want.
Can't catch a fish unless you go fishing.

Hustlers should stop asking the community how to get a technical cofounder, but it doesn't mean they should stop asking technical cofounders to be a... cofounder.

Only way you're going to find one is to put your idea on the line and prove you've got the chops to support each other.
11. Learn how the entire stack works. I see way too many people coding around problems that could be solved at the server level, the network layer, etc.
Can you add AM?
By definition government debt equals net private savings (+/- exports).

This is bogus. Sure it's technically true, but it doesn't actually mean anything.

If the private sector wants a surplus you have to have a government debt.

There is no such thing as what's meant by a "surplus" here.

There are two things that can be considered "saving". There is stockpiling useful things for your own later use, and there is collecting rights to other people's future work (which can be approximated by stockpiling your chosen medium of exchange).

But when you consider net "savings" of an entire economy, rather than individual "savings" of individual people, there is no "other people" to collect future work from. The government can create more medium-of-exchange for people to stockpile, and it's recorded as a debt of the government, but it's entirely meaningless because there's nothing to exchange it for. The only way to have net savings -- deferring the benefits of current work -- is to stockpile those benefits in a warehouse somewhere for later retrieval.
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Traditionally safe. The recent (past 30 or so years) unwillingness of the congress to invest that money into maintaining growth (things like infrastructure maintenance/improvement--"pork projects" as people like to call them) has started to compromise that. Corporate lobbyists haven't helped much either.
The biggest key, however, has been just great product selection. Our team's ability to effectively find and procure amazing design objects that delight and inspire people is what gives this thing momentum.
None of the American "Keynesians" calling for deficit spending today called for a balanced budget 5 years ago during the boom. I'd argue there are no true Keynesians, just politicians looking for an excuse to continue spending.
You just need to sign up for 'Google Apps for Domains' here is the link to the free version (they try and make it difficult to find)

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en-GB/group/index.html

You'll have to follow the instructions to make changes to your DNS etc.
"There is no good way to put comments into GUI."

Maybe he hasn't seen any, but this seems a harsh conclusion. Whoever wrote the GUI could track history of changes, make comments required, and show it in the GUI.

There is a vast difference between "there is no way", and "I haven't seen it done right"
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While communication with my investors and advisors is really important, I really hope this (or a related) tool can help guide the customer development process. I would definitely pay for that (And signed up for the beta hoping that will be the case).
Galaxy S2, I know it worked on the original Galaxy S aswell. And I think I've seen it working on the Nexus S.

It could be that Samsung added it to their phones and that it's not a Android feature itself.
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To all RIM naysayers: use a Blackberry and be delighted. Yes the web experience kinda sucks, but other than that Blackberries are all around fine phones with months of uptime without a single malfunction. I still wait to see that from any other vendor.
...an external firm to step in and overhaul things completely.

And do what exactly?

It seems that Nokia is in a similar situation and they're giving up on their in-house software in favor of Microsoft's Windows 7 Phone software. So, in the future, what will the difference be between a Nokia phone and a "knock-off"? Is RIM going to face the same fate?
I get your root question which is something along the lines of this:

How can the average amount of debt for an individual, country and corporation all be negative?

Look into fractional reserve banking and the Federal Reserve.
Are you making a moral argument, or a legal one? If legal, what country?

The "idea of an internship" is experience and networking if you're the intern, recruiting if you're a smart company, and free/cheap labor if you're a dumb company.
I think he's right, but for the wrong reasons.

Everything Google does gets checked out by TONS of people. Even if they've failed at social networking before, people are still going to try it. Plus, enough people are upset with Facebook's eternal privacy issues that they are looking for an alternative.

No, instead, it's the other thing he's wrong about in that article that's the reason it will die.

The invites are not to create hype. They're to let them roll it out slowly and fix problems before the whole world sees them.

But just like Wave, by the time I get in, my friends that are already in will no longer care, and by the time all my friends get in, most of us won't care.

Google's biggest problem is that too many people want to use the service at launch. (Oh, how I'd love to have that problem.) They're (once again) handling it poorly, and it's going to hurt them. And possibly kill the service.
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Bull. The store didn't create the problem. The numbers may be correct; the conclusion is yellow journalism.

The store may even help alleviate the problem, by providing Some income for these people.

Its not very clever to ask WalMart to just pay these people more; how about UCBerkely show some sincerity and pay them themselves?
Comments in configuration files are approximately equivalent to those "tooltip" things GUIs sometimes have. I think comments are a much better method though since GUIs often seem to be missing their equivalent and even when present, it's a pain in the ass to use.
You are attempting to understand the impact of a minimum wage from from an intellectual perspective but the map is not the territory. Just as having low taxes and few public services intellectually makes more sense but in reality reduces the quality of life in society, so it is with having a minimum wage. Compare the US and counties like Sweden for evidence.

Funny thing about comparing the US and Sweden, the US has a minimum wage and Sweden doesn't. What Sweden does have lots of, though is a lot of re-distributive taxation[1]. If you go and look at actual real world economists instead of the caricatures that make it into our political debates in the US you'll find that most of them are actually democrats, and many like progressive income taxes, welfare, etc. But despite the fact that most of them like government spending, pretty much none of them like the minimum wage. You could say that Sweden is exactly how your typical democrat economist would run a country if they could, with Singapore being the conservative equivalent.

[1] Ok, their taxation structure is less progressive than the US's, but they spend much more of their taxes on services instead of, say, fighter planes so in practice its more re-distributive.
I can vouch for the skills gap here in Ireland.

I have siblings working in fields which were quite dependent on the housing bubble and as such they have been out of work for some time.

On the other hand, every IT recruiter I know here is complaining about the lack of candidates and I've had as much work as I've wanted in the past few years.
Hi SoftwareMaven. The tool will definitely help guide the customer development process. One of the core features is an interactive canvas diagram that allows you to enter your hypothesis and keep track of which ones are validated.
I didn't realize how much having an editor in the web browser would make playing with this sort of development more seamless. I'd experimented with GAE before but I usually code in vim so switching from terminal to browser to terminal broke up the flow of trying stuff out. I'm not sure how viable this is for large application development, but I think if you put some tutorials in (perhaps like Ruby Koans), it would be an amazing learning tool.
> In May, they imaged gold nanoparticles at a resolution of just 97 nanometres, to show that scattering lenses can image below the 200-nanometre limit of conventional optical lenses
>They used a 450-micrometre-thick slice of fresh rat skin as a lens.

wow!
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What could Google do/have done differently?
Are you using any caching module, e.g. Hyper Cache for WP? If not, you should give it a try.
From the wikipedia article on this class of memory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-change_memory), it seems like this technology has been around since the 1950s-1960s. That's the perspective that you should view the IBM announcement though. It seems like the IBM technology might be the final step towards mass adoption.
Yeah, the interaction design is the hard bit and probably needs tested on "normal" people before you could be confident that it's actually helpful.

Maybe just having the autocomplete's available to save typing (and typos) and then only completing the rest of the form once you have the user enter enough that you're sure you can finish the rest of it (which sometimes might be the street, but other times the town/county) might work?

I've just realised that unless you know your data was 100% complete you'd not be able to do a guaranteed correct lookup from the post code and house number alone, since there may be clashes with houses on nearby streets you don't yet know about, and even if you present a dropdown list you still need a fallback form for new data entry. So that's a pretty tricky UI challenge regardless.

Do you have any example data that people can try to see how it works when your demo recognises postcodes?
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I'm not sure how bad is BB user-interface. Case and point: in Indonesia, BB is probably the hottest phone on the market. These people aren't the same like those in Silicon Valley echo chamber.

Point #2, #3, #6 are roughly focusing on the same principals: RIM needs smart, innovative leaders that get things done and deliver with less processes/bureaucracies. A friend of mine worked there and he said his group (including the director) complained about the internal process with respect to shipping out software: they can't just ship software, there are a few hoops they have to go through and that takes toll on their time to be productive.

Point #5 is valid. RIM insider told me that they have tons of features way before Apple or MS. Unfortunately they don't have Steve Jobs that always depict everything like the next best thing since the slice of bread.

Sometime the media and the analysts are just that: media and analysts. They need stories. They need something to focus on whether it's bad or good. To them, there's no difference between bad publicity and good publicity.

For example: I subscribe to InformationWeek and eWeek. They always sing the same song in the enterprise (for quite sometime until I get bored and thinking to unsubscribe): "Your CEO wants to use iPhone or iPad but your CIO blocked them with tons of reasons and instead ask you to stick with BlackBerry". I've got to ask iWeek and eWeek to do an unbiased poll or survey: how many companies do actually want this? Or are these companies that tell you the stories are the minorities? At the end of the day: which one is more cost-effective in terms of enterprise-wide deployment.
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Unless you root your device, which can invalidate your warranty with most manufacturers and service providers (at least here in UK - hence why many people don't want to do it), and use a app like ShootMe (which I found to be good and also one of the least intrusive in terms of required permissions), taking screenshots on most Android handsets is a pain.

You can install the Android SDK (and required dependencies) which includes tools you can use to grab screens, but I found it easier for most people to install a tool like MyPhoneExplorer (which is free, includes ADB, and is very easy for non-technical people to install) and the driver for their phone (usually on the handset itself for many devices e.g. HTC phones) instead. The big benefit is not only does it have a built-in and easy way to take screenshots, but also can be used to backup/restore your phone including all contacts/mms/sms/apps/settings/etc, and can be used for multiple handsets (or you can make different profiles for same handset as a crude version control), different phones e.g. Samsung/HTC/Nokia, and different OS e.g. as used on Nokia/SonyEricson/BB/etc, so makes transfer or CRUD of contacts/mms/sms/etc between devices easy and saves on hassles of having different software suites for different phones.

The only solution I have found to take screenshots directly on a mobile without full (permanently) rooting it is to soft root it using the RATC (RageAgainstTheCage) exploit either directly with ADB or far more easily using a tool like UnRevoked. This roots the phone until it is turned off, where upon a restart the phone is once more unrooted.

Lastly, if you just want to take screen shots of your website or web-app, you can do it without any rooting by installing the excellent DolphinHD browser and Screen-Cut plugin. This also has added advantage of being able to take full length shots of your page as one screenshot.

Note: AFAIK this applies to almost all devices I've seen up to Android Froyo (2.2) and most Gingerbread (2.3) and tablets. Some manufacturers may have implemented their own screenshot system.
I'm imagining interactive versions of many of the diagrams / figures from Blank's book "4 Steps the Epiphany". Just being able to enter your own text into the various customer development diagrams is a nice and simple idea. Is that close to what you mean?
No, I'm seeing a sustained 6MB/s on this US-EAST micro.
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I hope that I fixed the problem now by installing a plugin (QuickCache) which caches pages and serves a normal, static HTML page when possible instead of generating a new dynamically from the PHP scripts each time. I hope.
In addition to the great links already in this thread I'd like to add this post from Planet Money describing what happened that last time the US paid it off [1].

[aside] I love the the Planet Money podcast and highly recommend it. I wish more of the talking-podcasts I follow (Mixergy, Teckzing, back-to-work, stackexchange, etc) were available in 20 min chunks instead of the 60 min they all seem to favor. [/aside]

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/15/135423586/when-the...
Not really. Walmart's difficulties are because it's a real business. Typically, non-banking entities are not allowed to own banking entities. There are some very good reasons for this, primarily that if the non-banking entity struggles they have a very good incentive to raid the piggybank and/or take it down with them. After the past couple years it is easy to forget that banks are supposed to be more stable and less risky than other industries.

Clarification: Walmart's difficulties are unrelated to a banking startup's difficulties.
> It doesn't even really entitle you to an extra 10%.

Depends on the capabilities of the business guy. The best idea in the world, with the best technical execution in the world, is worth precisely $0 without the capability to bring it to market: to build sales channels and drive growing revenues.

This is a real skill, often over-looked by gung-ho coders with a neat idea. If you don't have the contacts and the experience of engineering a proper bis dev strategy, you ain't going anywhere.
We just have no idea what you are attempting to say.
>That dollar you invested 5 years ago, for example, only buys about 1/3 as much oil as it did when you invested it. That is a catastrophic loss.

Good point but really bad example which bring your intentions into question. Oil is in high demand, thus the price has increased. You should've picked a relatively stabler item to compare the price of.

Also, how much interest did you gain on the dollar in 5 years? An investment is not the same as putting a dollar bill in your pocket.
As a hockey fan I find what you said really interesting basically because CO-CEO Jim Balsillie took the shotgun approach instead of the slow approach in trying to acquire and move the Phoenix Coyotes so I always assumed that's how he operated at RIM. So until I read what you wrote, I would never have thought Jim and RIM would take forever to make decisions--I always thought they didn't take enough time to think things through. What's very funny is everyone was saying, if only took his time, bought the team, and then slowly petitioned for a relocation he would have gotten it--but his decision making skills cost him his chance.
Without savings, how do you pay for retraining?

One common method is to work for free for a short time, until you gain the skills necessary to perform a new job.

Without a minimum wage, how does a person on the very bottom of the social scale accumulate savings?

By reducing consumption.

Where I live, the GDP per capita is about 40x lower than the US. The top 5% tends to have a standard of living comparable to the bottom 5% of the US. The savings rate is 20%, compared to +/- 2-3% in the US.
While I enjoy uptime measured in years as much as the next Unix user, but I think the value of one month phone uptime (a rough estimate of mean time between iPhone reboots) vs. six month phone uptime is pretty meaningless to most people. They're both "pretty much never."
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I think so. I have to look into the data to be sure.
Google may succeed, because facebook fails to innovate. Facebook has been focusing too much on the broader web but the website itself has been watered down to a newsfeed that is getting more and more bloated by the day. Saturation is gonna be a problem with google too, but google is far better at removing spam and promoting interesting posts. Also, google is not being aggressive about inviting your friends over, in contrast to facebook, which has, from the onset, been extremely aggressive towards growth.

Let's wait a few weeks before making a verdict.

P.s. if you have an invite to spare, click on my username.