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Whut? Are you stupid? Having a myriad of unenforced laws on the books is by design. Everyone is a criminal all the time and selective enforcement can be brought down like a hammer on your ass.

Yes it makes us non-free, but it is exactly what the man wants.
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For the startups to be less of a commodity, perhaps you could look for some sort of unique perspective on the world that founders should have. It seems Google founders had a lot of that. This may not help with the returns though; maybe more money are there to be made from commodity startups than truly disruptive ones.
Purchases from Amazon.com in states that don't have an Amazon.com presence (California in this instance) generally are taxed.

It's called "Use Tax", and it is your responsibility as a taxpayer to report it and pay it.

The Californian government wants Amazon.com to collect a sales tax, instead the use tax.

Either way the purchases are taxed, unless of course you choose to dodge your taxes...
It is a requirement of the C standard that objects with static storage duration are initialised to a "zero of the appropriate type" (which eg. means NULL for pointers). In most implementations this can take advantange of the BSS section (which is why the requirement came about in the first place), but it's required to work even on eg. MS-DOS.

For the second part of your comment, comparisons are always done between the same type. In this case, either the -3 is promoted to unsigned (which gives the result UINT_MAX - 2, a large positive number) or the bitfield is promoted to int. It is the rules for this type promotion that is the heart of the problem.
Most will fail gracefully though. For example that one will just render as a normal text input on older browsers.
> For instance the key innovation of the iPod was not the clickwheel, but the iTunes ecosystem. Even though iTunes store didn't come out until later, it was the purpose behind the iPod.

Keep in mind Apple didn't make that much money on iTunes, at least in the early days. But yes, generally they could foresee that making music part of your computer's function is a ripe idea for a computer company in the early 2000s: music is easily digitizable, and comes before TV shows and movies in a long line of digital transition.

Mostly though, I just think simple, single-purpose devices were in the capability sweet spot for Apple at the time. Other companies couldn't provide the assurance that ripping all your CDs to your computer would be worth it in the long run.
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-3 > 1U is guaranteed to be true. Conversion of an out-of-range value to an unsigned type is well-defined in C: it is taken modulo one greater than the maximum value representable in the target type. (unsigned)-3 must always be equal to UINT_MAX - 2, there is no choice for the implementation here.

Conversion of out-of-range values to signed types is, however, implementation-defined (and also allows an implementation-defined signal to be raised, which in practice makes it something to avoid in correct programs).
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With a little effort they could use ssh keys instead of passwords...

They should ask users to provide their ssh public keys, and use them to give access to a new provisioned server locking down password-based ssh logins. That's how other players (like AWS) do.

This is basic basic basic security stuff.
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They're not any use for pulling sub-byte fields out of network packets in portable code, because everything about the precise layout of bitfields is entirely implementation-defined. Portable code has to use masking-and-shifting.

The only portable uses of bitfields are to potentially save a little memory, and to get "modulo-power-of-2" behaviour. Bitfields are a classic "not as useful as they first appear" feature.
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There is a real difference between being able to work in a team, and "being good at navigating office politics".

When you want some software shipped, you don't only need good programmers, you need good programmers that can work together, and fulltime experience helps with this. That said, I do not think fulltime employment is the only way to get this subset of abilities.
"peer review is costly (in terms of time and money)"

This is an objection why? Of course science costs time and money.

"However, journals do perform a service of sorts: they filter papers, ostensibly based on interest to a community, and also ostensibly ensure that the details of an analysis are correct and clear enough to be replicated (though in practice, I doubt these filters work as intended)."

Nobody cares about your doubts. Back it up.
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I was reading comments from others and a few were making light of the incident by stating "don't call the cops when someone returns your kid." I don't want to mitigate the hell they went through, but I'm still scratching my head b the mother's reaction. She didn't actually see the guy kiss her son; she heard it. Everywhere else I've read that he kissed the boy on the lips, but this isn't established. She then ran upstairs crying "We've moved next door to a paedophile!" If I had a visit from the police because of my neighbours who had just moved next door, I'd be freaking out. Just not to this extent.....
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Microsoft had their Windows SpeechAPI available in IE, like what, 5.0?

var a = new ActiveXObject("SAPI.SpVoice");

It can do TTS and Voice Recognition, locally

And don't forget MIDI and Drect3D support was introduced in IE4. Before SVG, there was a trend of VRML in the industry and VML was added to IE.

And don't forget, the very first AJAX as made possible by the IE xmlhttp object.

TIME+dHTML was cool before Flash, even before these Web2.0 and HTML5 cool kids start yammering around.

And then Microsoft killed these features with their Silverlight.
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Oh, wow, in that case.
I really don't want to use desktop software anymore. Am I the only one that feels this way?
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Short work? As in, with a little Googling of these kinds of tools, anyone could be sniffing anyone else's HTTPS logins on a gigantic, campus-wide Wi-Fi network?
The author's ideas are wacko and won't work.

I've published two technical papers in peer-reviewed journals where I was the only author, published several more papers in peer-reviewed journals where I had co-authors, and wrote a Ph.D. dissertation that was reviewed as "an original contribution to knowledge worthy of publication".

The papers I published were reviewed essentially on the usual criteria of "new, correct, and significant".

Here is one place the author gets way off track: For a technical research paper, e.g., new, correct, and significant, reading it is difficult, and judging if it is new, correct, and significant is more difficult. In an experimental science, judging if the work is reproducible adds more difficulty. It's TOUGH work.

The work is so tough that for some huge majority of papers that are published, nearly the only careful reading at least for some years will be during the review process. Maybe later the paper will get referenced, carefully read by many people, etc.

So, the idea of the article of this thread that commonly for papers that just appear on-line there can be 'votes' from many competent readings is just uninformed, misinformed, ignorant, just plain wrong, brain-dead nonsense.

Here's more: Now, when an author A sends a paper to journal X, there is a good chance that the paper is actually in or close to the specialty S of journal X. So, the reviewers of journal X have a good chance of being among the best people to review the paper. If journal X does publish the paper, then author A, the paper, and people interested in specialty S get a lot of help because journal X has said that the paper is new, correct, and significant for specialty S.

STILL, even with all this help for specialty S, the paper will likely be carefully and competently read at least for some years essentially only by the reviewers of journal X.

Since it is so difficult even with the help of journal X in specialty S to get such papers read, for a paper just posted on-line there is no hope at all.

Maybe in some experimental sciences reading a paper is relatively easy; however, judging if the experimental work is reproducible promises to be difficult.

Maybe not in experimental science but in essentially all of the rest, there is a fundamental difficulty about research that is new, correct, and significant: Almost necessarily nearly no one will understand the paper easily or understand the paper at all. Else, given basic academic competitiveness, the results in the paper would long since have been old instead of new. So, the research and review processes have to work always right at the edge of what can currently be understood at all. For meeting this fundamental difficulty, the present journal system helps, and just putting papers on the Internet is hopeless.
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Yeah, the current best system is to buy a ViVOtech NFC/RFID reader for your existing POS and just use PayPass. (disclaimer: I worked for ViVO back in 2003 on NFC security stuff).

Integration costs with the POS are probably a bigger cost than anything else for most merchants.

What IMO has largely doomed this technology, except for transit, tolls, etc., is the change to card association policy where now you don't need to sign for magstripe transactions under a certain amount. The purpose behind NFC vs. stripe+sign was always to speed up the checkout, and the printed receipt (or pad) and signature is the slow part.

For tolls, you still want something beefier RF-wise than the normal NFC, because you need to work through glass and steel. Transit is usually a declining-balance purse system, not realtime credit card, and is a single closed app.

And of course the big chicken and egg problem of readers vs. cards (and user awareness).

Loyalty might be a better app for NFC than payment (especially for the kind of things where you don't make a financial transaction, similar to checkins at venues), but QR codes might work just as well there, or GPS + smartphone app.
This is like GM's vision of how much you should pay for a Saturn vehicle: everyone ends up paying the same amount for the same model and options. That's a good, fair system if the amount is competetive but I wonder if others adopting this salary model don't end up like Saturn's pricing -- the biggest beneficiary of menu pricing is the company.
I think in Rand's case, it means "poor". He has tremendous value built up in his company, but nothing personally to show for it. He's still an unforseen string of bad luck or hospital stay from being completely broke (or worse). That's why some people mention it's okay for him to take some money off the table if he raises additional funding.
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I like your way of coming up with design ideas, makes a lot of sense to me. Not sure that I could do it though... I suffer very much from the common "tech guy" problem - my design skills suck! :P
Yeah they are like marketeers -- a little may be necessary (Oh, our entire site shouldn't be in flash?) but more than that and you end up in a war of attrition.
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From the interview referenced in his blog:

"Sparkbuy founder Dan Shapiro doesn’t like talking to people on airplanes. But on a trip between Silicon Valley and Seattle late last year, the entrepreneur started a conversation with the guy sitting next to him, which happened to be Google’s Matt Klainer. That chance encounter, along with a previous meeting with Google Kirkland site director Scott Silver, led to the search giant’s interest in Shapiro’s new search engine for consumer electronics."

It might just be PR though.
This. I guess at least a fraction of scientists are open towards a change in reviewing. However, during funding applications and interviews, the number of publications in journals is very important. Hence, if you want to make any chance in science, you submit to journals.
So you think Excel was an "innovative piece of software" in the first place? It wasn't. Many spreadsheets existed before that.

A much more practical angle: there is no MS Office or equivalent for operating systems such as Linux and BSD, so the OS people had to write their own.

To be honest I think the developers of LibreOffice are heroes. Not many people in the open source scene want to be seen working on 'boring clone' projects like an office productivity suite, and would rather innovate. But the fact is, it is a necessary evil for many users, and the availability of OO has helped Linux adoption a lot.
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I'm guessing it was filmed with a Digital SLR with a high aperture lens, something like a 50mm 1.4 or 1.8 (doesn't look shallow enough for a 1.2).
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No, we weren't a YC company.

Here's what actually happened:

I went on a networking trip to the valley to touch base & brainstorm with some VCs I'd met at my previous company, Ontela. On my way back, I got bumped in to first class. I hate talking to people on planes, but my rule is: if I'm in first, or I'm flying to/from SJC, I force myself. Well, this was a twofer.

The guy sitting next to me turned out to be a Googler. We exchanged some emails - I was still working on company concepts at the time - and months later, when we were featured in Techcrunch, he called me up and said he wanted to talk. He was the one who put together the internal Google team that did the deal.

The deal wouldn't have gotten done, though, without the tireless advocacy of a senior Google technical leader. I first met him maybe 4 years ago, introduced by an old friend, and we had coffee once or twice a year to keep in touch. We always talked about working together, and now we are.

Truth is, I hate "networking" as much as the next guy (although I enjoy the resulting friendships that sometimes form). But one of the key jobs of a startup CEO is creating serendipity, so it's something I force myself to do. And it usually turns out for the best.
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As someone who spend plenty of days in the original Legoland as a child, I still have fond memories.

That said, I hope they have cloned all the lego buildings and structures too.
Thank you, I wasn't aware that C99 now mandates the twos-complement result; I think it had been implementation-defined in C89 (which is all I ever used seriously).

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It's ironic, or whatever the word that we mean to say when we incorrectly say "ironic", that GroupOn started off as a "change the world" kind of thing (ThePoint) and then pivoted into "just" a trivial deals site. Also that it's a product of Chi-town, not SV.
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Considering similar reports, maybe their default templates are already cracked with injected code.

So everytime they create a new container, it's got a backdoor.
This approach is very common. Any start-up dismissed as "a feature, not a product" has pretty much started this way: 1. take a product you like, but that is missing a feature you really want; 2. clone with added feature; 3. launch.

More often than not this approach fails either because of the high cost of migration to potential users or more likely the pet feature doesn't actually appeal to any more than a small niche.

Don't think this necessarily applies to Google in this case. But I think Google can pull together a user base of 10/20 million pretty easily. The success of Google+ will be determined by whether they can get into the 100's of millions.
Just get a big box of generic Legos.

Then build what you want.
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Same here. I had another Lego enthusiast friend as a kid. Every time one of us got a new set we would do it individually then either trade sets or just let the other borrow it to do the same. Then it got thrown into the GIANT bucket of old Legos we used for our creative projects which we would work on together.

A couple of our creative projects were even put on display at some local libraries. That was a really satisfying experience as an 8-12 year old.
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We're coming in the dangerous area of personal preferences, but with the decades of writing and also maintaining code, I certainly prefer "exit in a strange place" variant, as it clearly better allows the code to "grow" with less differences between revisions, like adding a few more lines between update_thing and if. And if the revisions are not expected then how is written is in my opinion realy irrelevant. (Disclaimer: I won't discuss this subject more here.)
Heck, run for Congress.

Then you are one the receiving end of all the bribes.
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I'd never heard of SparkBuy.com -- how did it get snatched up so quickly by Google? A precursory glance at it's stats shows it as being tagged only a handle of times on Delicious [1] and is ranked 200,000+ on Alexa [2].

[1]: http://www.delicious.com/url/dd6d860947e61d97884bb3719377c7f...
[2]: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/sparkbuy.com

It's a great concept, and I think it could fit into Google Shopping quite well. If you haven't checked out Google Shopping, you should -- they do some interesting things by aggregating reviews, doing NLP, and extracting out key terms. An example would be showing you a TV and it's ratings/sentiment analysis for several attributes like "color", "design", and whatever else is relevant for the product. With a more clever UI, they could churn out some amazing product search. I sure wish I had their data.

Tangentially related, I've been working on a similar website in my spare time. If anybody could point me in the right direction in terms of a price comparison API, and/or how to sign up for decent affiliate programs, I'd be quite grateful. Also, Google, if you'd like to hand me the keys to your product database I'd be happy to make a much more useful UI for you.
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Too slow. Didn't read.
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This is article is really not so much against bosses per se as it is against large companies. But it seems to me that even small startups, if they are successful, grow into large companies with strongly defined structure and teams, and team leaders (or bosses, if you prefer that term).. and there's really not much that can be done about it. It's just natural - if you grow, you need to change your organizational structure. If there's 500 people in your company you can't pretend to be a small startup consisting of 5. You need to accept the fact that you've grown large and act accordingly. That means having a structure that's suitable to your current size.

Although this article idealizes the romantic picture of a small creative, innovative startup that disrupts large behemoth-like businesses, the fact is that most game-changing startups these days are, in fact, middle-to-large companies. Facebook has over 2000 employees. LinkedIn, 1000 in 2010. Groupon reportedly has over 3000 people in 29 countries [1]. The exception here is Twitter which only has about 450. If you want to be big, you got to grow big, and once that happens you got your teams, and bosses and so on.

But I disagree with the statement that big companies necessarily stifle your creativity. Google, for example, is a great example of a company that actually fosters creativity. As for not being able to learn as much working in a large company as working in a startup.. Well, I'd say it really depends on the company and people there. I learned a lot from my mentors at my first job working as an intern at a large company, and I would definitely say that, if anything, it made me a better developer.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/3000-people-in-29-countries
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No, you seem to be with the majority. But I really don't want to use web software any more. I might be the only one, but hopefully not.
No, I like native widgets, predictable shortcuts, and easy off-line use. Also, desktop software is easily manageable via Exposé/Mission Control.

Also, I don't like the fact that webmail providers such as GMail cannot only track my e-mail, but also my reading/browsing behavior.
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So it was just the initial handshake that people could whistle? I suppose one could have whistled long sequences of all zero or all one bits into FSK-using modems, if there were no start, stop, or parity bits.
Had the site taken Github into consideration, things would have been different.
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