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Grooveshark is terrible. A selection of incomplete albums, badly tagged. I also cannot understand why it hasn't been shut down yet as it must be illegal. Spotify is vastly superior to Grooveshark in every way.

On the other hand, Grooveshark is the only real option in Canada.
Or just a visa.
That bugs me, too.
You can open new windows and even tabs. I recommend a new window for your other monitor. Here you can open the debugger and even other things if you want.
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That would moot the point, no?
I just don't see them having a need to make the TV part, unless we are talking a big iMac. It just seems like such a crowded field that doesn't really have an upside beyond what the Apple TV is currently able to provide.
I read your blog and discovered ScraperWiki through it (thanks!) so it makes a lot of sense that you're primarily focusing on structured and re-usable data.

Would love to see some big picture blog post on the web data gathering and transformation eco system, e.g. how all the different tools/services - scrapers, rss, FreeBase, Yahoo Pipes, InfoChimps, etc - can be used in real business cases. Right now there seems to be a rich rhizome growing but the big picture issues are hidden beneath the soil.
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I think you grossly underestimate the difference in housing costs.

In the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, you can get this 1300sft house for $643/month:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/211-Barbary-Ct-Cary-NC-275...

In Palo Alto you are looking at this 1140sft house for $4922/month:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4205-Wilkie-Way-Palo-Alto-...

This is not an extreme example. Housing costs in NC are a small fraction of what they are in the valley.

Also notice that the housing prices in NC are very consistent, the bubble didn't happen there. The values in Palo Alto swing up and down 30% or more in a span of 2 years.

Obviously the job market is better in Palo Alto, but top talent can get a job anywhere.

Consider a hypothetical engineer (software developer in east coast terminology). He might make around 100k in NC, and $140k with a good gig in the bay. After taxes, 401k, etc lets say this is a take home income of 60k and 95k. The valley engineer is paying $59064 for housing, leaving him around 36k for every other expense in his life, around $3k per month.

The Raleigh engineer pays $7716 for housing, leaving him $53k, or around $4415 per month.

So after you subtract housing, assuming purchase, the Raleigh engineer is better off initially. Of course, assuming Palo Alto housing prices don't plummet, the valley engineer is putting equity into the house which he can use if he moves for retirement.

Of course, there are other benefits to living in the valley, such as not having to live in North Carolina. Weather, opportunities, schools, healthcare, and the job market are far better here.

I previously lived near the area in NC that I'm describing, and I left to come work for a startup in Palo Alto. The quality of life here is far better.

Housing is outrageous though, but that is primarily a function of geography, being in a narrow valley near the sea, there is simply no room to expand. That is why all the towns in the valley are fighting high speed rail, they know that once the pressure is released by allowing easy access to jobs in the valley, housing prices will drop shockingly.
So, you've got coverage already. Awesome!

Use the stair step technique. Who is slightly bigger than your college's website? City/State Paper? And then build from there!
It is impossible to overstate how much you are underestimating the reach, influence, and prestige granted to graduates of HBS.

Not saying it should matter (I've seen how the sausage is made), but it does matter to the billions of people who consider it to be the best of the best, almost none of whom have ever heard of Tech Stars.
Email addresses are something that people are fairly familiar with when it comes to signing in. Trying to explain why URL's are used instead of email addresses in OpenID is difficult when you are dealing with a non techy user.
This from a quick Google Search: http://www.faa.gov/news/press_releases/news_story.cfm?newsId.... If you need more, you'll have to find it yourself.
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Nope. Techcrunch just did their math wrong.
for the record, there are plenty of android phones that use real physical buttons for those 4 buttons at the bottom of the android screen. using capacitive buttons is a manufacturer choice.
I think you're mixing up BigCorps with IncompetentCorps.

I've had plenty of BigCorps asking me to interview with them based solely on my open source work (they contacted me). Those were companies like Amazon, Google, Twitter etc. (companies I would consider working for). So I know that this advice works also in the context of BigCorps that are technical and competent.

I haven't had similar offers from GM or WalMart or Shell (or name-your-own-bigcorp) even though I'm sure they also hire programmers.

But given that I do have an option of working at a company like Google, I wouldn't even consider working for GM, which, and that's an educated guess, doesn't pamper their employees as much as Google, doesn't pay them as well and doesn't respect them as much.

So add that as one more benefit of github-as-a-resume model: it attracts companies that treat programmers extraordinarily well so not only you get more work opportunities but those opportunities are of the highest quality.
I'm almost with you on this. Human beings deserve to be treated with respect, period. You can respectfully and forcefully decline and explain your reasons for doing so. Treating them poorly isn't going to help anyone, ever. Shaming them into getting a new job just simply isn't going to work.
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Oh I'm not saying it isn't needed sometimes, it just seems like the code word for "no clue" or "nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure". It has just happened to me way too often to not be a little suspicious.

I would love to get the figures on the "whole unit iPad repair / sell old one has refurbished".
We're not comparing HBS of 1908 to Techstars of 2011, we're comparing Techstars of 2006-2011 with HBS of 2006-2011.

Sure Techstars might be amazing in a hundred years time, but it's not exactly relavent for someone deciding what to do now.
"At 10 million users, the network has already accumulated 13 percent of Facebook's 750 million users in two weeks".

My math skills aren't what they used to be but 10m != 13% of
750m. 13% of 750,000,000 = 97,500,000. I think we're looking at ~1.3% ;)
Never forget, even smart people make stupid mistakes and it just gets worse from there. People often use brand names to fill in for categories. Ex: Kleenex for tissue, coke for soda etc. What's really odd is people will sometimes buy something like a box of tissues and think "Kleenex" even if it's not on the box. People reversing the category name with the brand name is a basic issue, but there are plenty of ways to encourage the effect.

What's really interesting IMO, is it's such a common effect that there have been a wide range of court cases based around how generic a brand has become and how people exploit it. Thus your packaging really can be too similar to competitors even if everything else is fairly unique.
I'm sure things would have been fine if she simply refused.

I don't believe this is true. You are subject to a civil fine of $10,000 for leaving a security area without completing it.

http://jalopnik.com/5690109/you-touch-my-junk-and-ill-have-y...
Still, 10MM users in 2 Weeks in a closed-invite-beta. I know, they have a 1B userbase but it means something is really buzzing this time.
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Just an aside, but you specifically explain the proper spelling of your name as "BuzzData", but your logo uses a lowercase "d" while still using an uppercase "B", i.e. "Buzzdata" instead of "BuzzData". Not important, just thought I'd point out the discrepancy.
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I was in Teen Leaders with you, and I went to Hill with Len. I'm sure you can deduce who I am from that. I'm sorry for your loss, it's quite a shock to me even if we lost contact after Hill. RIP Len.
I'd like a government guide on how to explain to my children that its ok for this uniformed guard to touch them in this manner but not for people in uniforms in other places.

"It's ok for people to touch you like that but only in airports" doesn't quite seem to cover it.
I am not, but I'm from Cambridge, Massholia and I know some of the organizers, graduates and money folks that support the program. At the time of YC making headway ('06?) I gave an incubator some thought at the time I thought that I was too old for it. In retrospect, I'd still give it a go today and I'm over the hill. High-energy, focused programs are great, but again, are no substitute for traditional education.
Yes. Logarithmic was just an example.
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If I remember correctly, Haskell's argument for these was that it improved the accuracy of source code by letting the correct mathematical symbols be used for the concepts expressed in syntax; the list at http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.0.2/html/users_guide/synta... seems to back this up.
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It is a general way of thinking that all cups are the same, which is not true.

Now that you have more information you must feel more confident about your ability to save your money. Even if you save only couple of dollars a week, You end up with a big amount at the end of the year.
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I think the program would be useful for parents with (specifically younger) kids as well as frequent fliers. Register ahead of time, don't have to deal with the hassle of telling your super hyper 4 year old to stand still in the scanner. Convenience, not just avoiding the scanner/patdown controversy.

As for trusted traveler programs, I don't think there really was a push until just recently for TSA to adopt their own, rather than dealing with 3rd party companies only at certain airports offering the service.

> I can't say it makes me feel more in danger -- I think for the most part people don't really want to blow up planes

I never ever want to do that, I just want to get to my destination. But I didn't mean my 3oz bottles of shampoo. I have a bag of that already. I'm talking about my second size-unlimited plastic bag full of medical liquids and aerosols that TSA almost never bats an eyelash at. I have travelled with 10oz bottles of contact lens solution and cough syrup this way that were in my carryon, undeclared, without being asked to take it out. My father, who is diabetic, takes bottles of soda/juice with him to the airport too and they never hassle him when he explains why (with a letter from his doctor as backup just in case).

The idea that someone could stick a prescription label on a bottle and take on liters of liquid if they wanted to without screening is kind of disturbing after all the TSA's hassle about 3oz liquids.
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Could someone please tell me why people are excited about Spotify in the US?

We have established competitors and I've failed to find a single thing Spotify does better than the competitors.

Also the competitors do this amazing thing that Spotify doesn't: They work in a web browser.
It actually is decentralized, in the sense that anyone can implement a BrowserID provider.
What I'd really want to see is public-key authentication for website.

Let me upload my public key when I create an account on a website, and let the browser interact with my ssh-agent to authenticate.
If they have objective measures and are compensating based on them, there's no reason not to tell people what the formula is. You can still hide what you measure people at (Bob's only A+ at LINQ, vs. A+++). Without specifying how measurements translate into yearly compensation they're just waving their hands around and saying how scientific they are without actually being so.
While I share your sentiment that it would be nice to have as part of BigCouch, that is probably asking a lot since this is a good value add for their (Cloudant's) service.

BTW, I have only set up BigCouch a couple of times to play with it but it is very impressive.
Not actually released by NASA. But still very nifty.
Actually this is a big misconception in UK/Europe. Unless you are a independent software contractor you get insurance thro your company in US. So the salary posted here excludes the benefits (insurance, vacation, 401k etc)...

IMO, with lesser US taxes & cost of living the US software programmer makes atleast twice than that of his eurpoean counterpart!
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http://www.WikiMatrix.org compares wiki software. http://goo.gl/saome shows the "Top 25 Wikis" Markdown support.
Holy Bejesus!

Edit: I'm no stock market wizard but I would still buy Google stock tomorrow. For the foreseeable future, they're going up up up. Mark my words, they'll be pulling 10 billion a quarter before too long.
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There were three cofounders at Gilt, the other two Alexandra Wilkis Wilson and Alexis Maybank were both Harvard MBAs (where they met).
Yep. Without thinking, I used code for an open source library I had written in my spare time in our proprietary software, and it came up during a due diligence check for acquisition.

Wasn't a big deal in the end, I just made sure it was using a commercial friendly license, but you do have to take care.

If it was a US employer they may have sued me if they didn't think that the OSS code came before the inclusion in the product (which it did).
You're speaking to where we want to see all of this go.

There's no easy answers, but you might want to check out:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/23/flightcaster-flight-delay/

http://eaves.ca/2011/03/07/launching-an-open-data-business-r...

http://measuringmeasures.com/blog/2010/7/2/research-driven-s...

I have also ordered Sarah Lacy's new book, about info entrepreneurs in the developing world:

http://www.amazon.ca/Brilliant-Crazy-Cocky-Entrepreneurs-Pro...
Statements like this demonstrate that the anti-education movement has reached the tipping point.

There is no way on earth that placement in a somewhat obscure accelerator/mentorship program offers more "credibility" than an MBA from what is arguably the most prestigious post secondary institution on the planet. And that assertion requires no support or justification.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to be successful, but having one will open more doors than you can imagine.
There is a large distinction here - the provider (in the video, BrowserID.org) would have to be compromised, as only they have your credentials. This is quite a bit different and more secure than using the same credentials with many different providers, because in that scenario, the weakest of any party could get compromised and that way compromise all parties.
for what it's worth, my experience comes from getting hired at vmware and ITA software (now google). in my experience, the recruiters who source and filter resumes at those companies are rarely technical.
There's no doubt twitter's useful. I use it myself daily. But I'd argue acceptance of the growing world of walled gardens is dangerous to innovation. I was sad reading your article because if this wasn't about twitter you could've written about how you SOLVED the spam problem, instead of begging a large company to smile upon your idea and maybe try it out.
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There seems to be an implied trade-off between a usable system and a distributed system. Most users and most developers at this point will go for usable.

But then, Google, Facebook and Twitter have reduced the friction for identifying all over the internet, so Mozilla is kind of arriving late to the party.
This... A million times this. Where do I signup?
It's actually a conscious decision made by our branding team, and there's a blog post explaining our process coming in the future.

Death, taxes and branding. Sigh.
exactly. It is the kind of thing you expect from a Hollywood movie, except it actually happened. And with a Mossad/NSA angle to boot!
A company at that size growing 32% Y-o-Y is just amazing. Go Google.
I've often wondered what kind of science fiction the characters of Star Trek read in the 23rd and 24th century. Star Trek characters always seem to be conveniently interested in 20th century culture.
So, it's basically a traditional single-sign on system? Is that right? Like, in the old days, I integrated one of my products with AOL. You could click a link and it would automatically sign you into my product using you AOL Screenname and Password (behind the scenes, AOL would verify that the screenname and password are correct and my app would create a new user in my database).
Stock is up 12.18% in after-hours trading. At their size and stock price that's amazing. Boy do I wish I had a few shares now.
We've basically got it completely working without Kiln at this point. Just grab the latest Kiln BFiles version at https://developers.kilnhg.com/Repo/Kiln/Group/Unstable , and you play around and let us know what you think.

Note that, while the Kilnless operation is in the "Unstable" repository, the general functionality has been shipping with Kiln for over a year now, and is rock-solid. We're also working hard right now on getting full TortoiseHg support, so that will hopefully land soon, too.
I'm pretty sure that dstone meant to write that Spotify was missing those bands (e.g. Arcade Fire et al), not Rdio. I've been listening to a good bit of Arcade Fire on Rdio lately, and just confirmed that they aren't available on Spotify.
Maybe slightly off-topic here, but are there plans to eventually merge Big Couch upstream into Couch core?
There are plenty of times when a resume is not required for a hire. A recommendation can replace it, chatting with the person in a dev irc channel, contributions to open source, etc.

You aren't required to do any of those things, but it makes sense that the more quality information about yourself available the better your chance at getting a quality job.
If I were going to describe this to a friend, I'd probably say "like flickr, but for data"... not something you can put in marketing materials, I know.

I'd like to abuse this reply to ask that when you add tools for geodata, that you please please please do what you can to help people produce visualizations and rankings that are not horribly skewed by poor choices of geographic boundaries.

I know this is a hard problem, but for people who don't do this all the time, it's really easy to end up with a headline like "Manhattan Leads the City in Pedestrian Deaths Per Square Mile, Study Finds" (Manhattan is, of course, the densest borough in New York City, so this probably isn't terribly useful information). I've seen maps that might show, for example, the areas of the US with the highest number of coffee shops per square mile, but the map is done based on counties, so here in Seattle we end up not looking terribly dense since over half of gigantic King County is mountainous and unpopulated.
But I think you're wrong in that everyone that tries to change the world only has personal issues to overcome, and if they do everything is alright. Believing that is pretty much solipsism. Sometimes the world really is wrong and can be fixed.

No, that isn't my point at all. My point is that berating other people and lecturing them in the way this piece does typically comes from insecurity, hurt and so on. I would like to change the world and fix some things that are wrong. But I am not desperate to do so, I do not have overwhelming need, I try very hard to avoid sounding like I am lecturing. I don't always get it right. I just know that berating people does not make for less bad in the world, it makes for more bad -- it hurts people's feelings, it tears down their self esteem and so on. I spend a lot of time pondering how to resolve real problems effectively. I know from long experience that this approach is really not it.

Peace.
I'm simply astounded at how many people checked "less than 60k," but I guess I've been living in a bubble. I make 80k, and I'm a 19 year-old intern.
You could ALWAYS compete. When you have a great idea and it seemed obvious and there is no one doing it, you should reconsider it. A good idea is afraid of being lonely.
Try collaborative. "Social network" is such an annoying word.
That's not a fair reinterpretation. The parent hires for positions that pay <$100k. It's fair that he/she would be more interested for fine degrees of scale at the general range the company hires for.
This. Perhaps ssh+http is the solution.
I think the difference here is that glucose can be converted to glycogen, but fructose can't. Both high-fructose corn syrup and sucrose are a combination of approx. 50/50 fructose/glucose (the most common HFC in use is a 55/45 split; sucrose has a chemical bond between the two sugars, but HFC doesn't). My understanding is that when most people refer to sugar, they are talking about sucrose, and not glucose in isolation; therefore, ~50% of 'sugar' can't be converted to glycogen.
But, if you give them guidelines, they can work well with you. If you're currently in the $150k range and you want to get to $200k but don't know how, talk to your local friendly recruiter over coffee. They'll even buy. As long as you're clear with them that you won't accept an offer for a penny less than <X>, they won't waste your time. They will also tell you if you have no chance of getting a job through normal means at that price range given your current skills and experience.

At least, most of the ones who are working for independent recruiting/placement firms that I've met hanging out here in Chicago will do that. YMMV elsewhere.

Certainly, if you just respond to the first recruiter who mails you after finding your resume via a random web search and industry-appropriate keywords, you'll get about what you put into it. If you're having trouble finding a reasonable one, either ask a friend or find them via your peers at companies you would like to work at on LinkedIn. Recruiters live there. And again, not the recruiters working for the company; try to hit up the independent ones if you want to have a lower-pressure conversation.

Those poor corporate recruiters are in a perpetual pressure cooker to fill their available headcount.
A couch potato would design something like a cross between the current Apple TV and the Wii or something. Streaming content + downloadable music/movies + casual games all running iOS. Make the Apple TV interface with the iPod Touch, iPhone, or Wiimote and you're basically there.

Note that Apple is going that way with AirPlay Mirroring. As a reminder, AirPlay Mirroring allows you to wirelessly use the AppleTV as a second display for any app that supports it. (and it's very easy for a developer to support) In particular, that includes games (see Real Racing HD for example). Though it will only work with the iPad2 at first, this has a lot of potential.

I'm not sure that this would be the ideal way to get into people's living-rooms (they would still need to buy an AppleTV on top of an iPad), but it's pretty close to what you're describing.
In addition to that, since the ID provider does not get any sort of information about which websites you visit with your ID, it would be impossible to know where exactly the ID is in use.

At least that's how I understand it.
one less device = simplicity

and brand is just so strong