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I completely agree with everything you've said except for "any use of bitfields." The comma operator is ok in this circumstance, mixing unsigned and signed is a big no-no, but what have you got against bitfields? They're very useful when it comes to pulling sub-byte fields out of network packets.
It's not as if Amazon is arguing that if the subsidiaries sell products in California they wouldn't be subject to sales tax. If you (earl) bought stock in a company in another state, does that give you a physical presence there and make whatever you sell subject to their sales tax? That company you are a partial (or full) owner of already pays sales tax in its state.
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50 different states and at least several thousand distinct regions (counties, cities, townships, etc) with different sales tax rates and different taxable item classifications. You can't even tell which one a customer lives in by their address.
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Many of the most talented people in some previous generations were thinking up new ways to kill people, so you can consider that at least an improvement.
I do. Amazon purchases are usually all I end up reporting, too -- not many other sites I buy things from that aren't the sites of brick-and-mortar stores (which collect the sales tax).

Especially if you are self-employed or own a business, the chances of NOT being audited eventually while never reporting any use taxes are not good.
a2z makes the Amazon Appstore and Android MP3 player. So who gets taxed on those digital purchases?
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Frankly, I think g+ is one of google's more innovative projects in recent history, namely the way circles work.

But think about the "copy first, innovate second" idea.

When your product is a search engine, there already are engines out there and its a category so you have to "copy" the basic functionality of search. Those are the table stakes.

Google innovated with pagerank, but they did this first. By finding the pagerank method, they were able to produce a better search engine... but they didn't just do an inverted index and run with that for awhile and then decide to "innovate" later.

Look at what Apple does. When they did an MP3 player, yes, they met the table stakes of being able to play MP3s. But they didn't just put out a generic player, and then innovate. They figured out an innovation that made the player worth doing in the first place, then they did it. Apple doesn't just copy products, everything Apple makes they do so because there is a unique selling proposition that differentiates it from the rest of the market (at least in Apple's eyes. We may not appreciate the USP that Apple does.)

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.

I'm not really disagreeing with this article which reviews the similiarities between g+ and facebook.

But I do want to point out that so many companies get the "copy first" part right, but never get around to the "innovate later" part. Copy first is becomming a mantra. Facebook was a copy of The Face Book, in fact. The reason facebook is what it is is that they did get around to innovating later.

The reason there's no competition for the iPod is that the competition never got around to innovating (or in MSFT's case, got around to it way too late.)
What I especially like about this reply is how it clearly shows how easily he can answer the questions and objections raised. It acknowledges they are reasonable questions and as such they have already been considered. There is a current answer, that may change if new ideas/evidence come to light.

Readers of this kind of news often seem to underestimate the kind of thought that went into an idea/invention/prototype. They go "well, that won't work, because ..." and they come up with some reason that may sound reasonable (or simply is reasonable), but just isn't important enough. I think it would be good if more scientists replied in this kind of matter to comments to news of their ideas/inventions. It would, I hope, increase the respect people have for the work of scientists.
didn't the prehistoric groups of our ancestors probably have some kind of leader or hierarchy?
This is why Amazon's management has stated several times that they would prefer a national sales tax than dealing with this mess.
It looks like by changing the pricing to reflect more of the provisioning they're encouraging people to stick more CPUs per guest. I guess the more people are overloading their hardware at the moment, the bigger the license price jump.
I think you're showing a fundamental misunderstanding of what working within a team means. Full time experience interacting with other people and with stakeholders of the product you are creating is something you're friend won't have, regardless of how amazing she is with RoR.

Being a developer is as much about being able to write code as being able to identify the best solutions to problems within the particular domain. This ability can only come through working as a developer and dealing with these situations first hand.

Put another way, I've been called very rude names by very famous musicians and being able to deal with that and continue working with these people was a massive learning experience to me.
Appstore apps are sold by Amazon Digital Services Inc. They also sell all the downloadable games and such on Amazon.com. I don't know what state that company is in, but that'd be the state that gets taxed.
totally agree with you @rishi, you need to lower the entry barrier for mass adoption, copying is a popular choice
I have to chime in here and say that I know Lloyd personally and am intimate with some of the details of RippleQ, and the rubber has hit the road in a big way.

These guys have built out a solid product, that major companies are paying for, and are getting great feedback from their customers. I understand why you would be tempted to call bullshit, but it actually isn't anywhere near bullshit.
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"and don't get caught up in doing things the "Microsoft" way"

agreed. I've been an ms dev for a while but over the last couple years have branched out into python.
Since then, I've really started to hate writing "best practice" code in .net where you get lost in a sea of interfaces and over-used design patterns.
Yeah, I had the same problem with that article. I have a friend who has at least 15+ years of programming experience (including paid contracting), but only 3 years out of college working "full time" for a salary.

So that means he's in the 1-5 years bucket automatically? Sorry, but I don't think so, since he can run circles around most 20+ experience people.

There's just no comparison between people like that who do programming in their spare time since they were a kid and people who just started programming in college and only did it for school or their jobs. It's absurd to rank them the same.
had you expounded upon it it would, though
Got some error messages, then a stalled page. If this is the future of the web, we are doomed.
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Amazon doesn't use local roads. Fedex, UPS, etc do.

Those companies all have a local presence and (presumably) pay their taxes to the state in which they operate. The taxes are then passed on to Amazon or the consumer in the form of higher prices on shipping.

As for local fire departments, I use Pivotal Tracker. Should Pivotal Labs be forced to pay Maharashtra taxes since it's in their best interest that my company not burn down?
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We are a VC who got shit load of money delivered by Central Bank of Nigeria for the inheritance of King Mohammed.

We have bought a software company in India and a BPO in Philippines.

We need a idea guy whom we can fund, like ycombinator we would just take 8% equity for funding and another 12% for development and BPO support. fancy degrees and facebook contacts a must

:)
Blank in safari, stops at slide 2 in chrome 12 and firefox 5... Safe to say that these features are not worth exploring yet.
I've found that vmware's vsphere is much better than KVM. I'm not sure about the performance but in terms of useful features and a nice interface vmware is much better.

I still need to try Eucalptys sometime.
I did both, myself. Following the instructions, you could build really cool things you couldn't design yourself with a 10 year old brain. Not following the instructions, you got to endeavor in trial and error, and critical thinking, etc. Both had their merits.
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I would like some statistics on this.

Microsoft, EA, Apple, Valve, Blizzard, Riot Games, all microtransaction-financed games, every iphone developer that sells their game instead of using advertisements for income, they're all developing software that make money off that initial software purchase.
I've nailed a few of those. My girlfriend has claim on most of the others.

But, at the end of the day, our parents are most proud of us for who we are as human beings and members of society, and not for any titles, salaries or vehicles we possess. And I think that's exactly the way it should be.

I would much rather raise an intellectually curious child who would like to show me the cool project they worked on, or the cool thing they discovered, than one who believes I'll only praise them for a letter grade from an arbitrary third party.

> I'd rather my kid start the next Apple.

Me too, but I'd happily settle for my kid being happy, content and fulfilled with the life they lead, regardless of whether or not that involves creating a Fortune 500.
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What do you use to manage your KVM cluster? I'm not aware of any package that does that, although I haven't looked that deeply. I have been meaning to try out Eucalyptys/Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (which sounds like similar functionality to a KVM cloud) but haven't done so yet.
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No, you just have to make sure they understand that a lawsuit against you ends with a verdict from the supreme court after a long and costly legal battle.
You guys are really missing the point. This isn't about Amazon, it's about affiliate marketers. You know, these guys who run websites and for a fee, provide a link to a merchant website to generate a sale.

When the Franchise Tax Board finally figures out that California is no different than New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, etc. and discover there is no net gain in revenue as a result of this law, they will set their sites on the one large California company in the "provide links to make sales for a fee" business, Google. Suddenly every company across the nation buying keywords from Google will have a nexus established in California simply by the keyword buys.

So if you are not in California, and you like doing some keyword buys to enhance your business on your website, get ready to bend over and pay sales and use tax to California. Because that is what is going to change the pattern of miserable failures this law has been in other states.
We've raised $40k from Angel List so far. It's been the only source of successful investments we have received outside of YC Demo Day connections.
Technically, Amazon isn't paying the tax. The resident buyer is; Amazon is just collecting it to pass along, same as with local businesses.

(The buyer still owes the tax if Amazon doesn't collect it – under 'Use Tax' laws – but that is easy to evade.)
Perhaps I did not explain my point clearly enough. Gates, Jobs, and Ballmer are all businesspeople. Only Woz is the kind of engineer I was discussing.
it comes down to understanding everything you are using, and being able to swap out components for something better. ie. it is very unlikely that a single framework has the best router, controller, selector, templating etc. but by assembling your own stack you can inject personal preference and what you consider 'best'.

I do the same thing on the server side as opposed to using Django
Not everyone has a bunch of connections, and even those who do don't have as many as you can find on Angel List. Intros are still your best bet, but there's no reason not to leverage an asset as useful as Angel List.
Business class is a level, it isn't based on area.
I've heard "swing for the fences" many times in the context of startup companies. Fred Wilson (A VC) has a blog post entitled "Swinging for the Fences" that talks about it -
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/10/swinging-for-the-fences.html
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Cisco?

I think you're correct that the best companies are those with founders who can both 'found' and manage, but is that a cause or effect?
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In the case of cable Internet you're dealing with a shared medium.

Your ISP may have a 10Gbit uplink in their headend but that does not extend to your home. In reality with 4 channel DOCSIS 3 bonding the speed available "on-the-wire" is about ~150Mbit/sec and it's shared between about 200 customers at minimum. (in reality it's usually a lot closer to 300-500 customers) So if 15 customers out of the 200 want to use 10Mbit/sec 24x7 there is no bandwidth left over for the other 190 customers.

I realize that the cable is shared, but remain unconvinced that a flat cap is in any way better than other solutions (such as dividing available bandwidth proportionally among active users, with higher-paying customers getting a larger slice). It shouldn't matter if someone's using their 10mbit/s 24/7, it should only matter if they're using it during peak hours. On the flip side, the "average" user who wants to stream Hulu, Youtube, and Netflix is likely to be doing their streaming at the same time as most other customers, causing more degradation to other customers' experience per hour of usage than the heavy downloaders. Capping the heavy users doesn't change the fact that the average users all want to stream video at the same time.

Also, how can the cable company possibly offer me the 50+mbit/s connection for which I currently pay over $100/mo if the 4 256-QAM downstream channels (totaling ~150mbit/s as you said) are shared by so many customers? Those channels only use 24MHz of the total spectrum.
The basic problem here is that 250GB per person is not sustainable with the current networks, nor is it sustainable at rates people are willing to pay for access.

Cloud and other services that depend on enormous bandwidth costs to be absorbed by others leads to the free rider problem. NetFlix is the biggest free rider around. Their rates do not cover the cost of bandwidth because their basic business model is parasitical.
> One cannot compete with Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL/CentOS) communities in matters of testing and code quality. No code is better tested than those included in mainstream kernel or a polular distribution.

I know I'm feeding the troll here, but that is just naive.

There are many great open-source projects with terrific code quality, like parts of (and certainly not the whole of) the Linux kernel. There are also many commercial solutions which are far ahead of anything available in the open source world. In many spaces it makes great sense to use a proprietary solution over an open source one.

> Oracle vs. MySQL is a very good example - high quality community code is usually much better and well tested. (hint: it is about comparing the code quality, not a feature lists)

Can you provide evidence that MySQL has fewer important bugs than Oracle? I have used both fairly extensively and have noticed more bugs with MySQL, but that's just one anecdote.

> Most of corporations outsource their R&D and QA and spend for marketing instead.

Do you have evidence that vmware development is outsourced? Do you have evidence that outsourcing leads to a lower quality product? Most studies in this area have shown quality be lower with a push to lower costs, with no correlation to outsourcing.
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Perhaps "big projects" would be better than "big problems" here (since the examples were pyramids and operating systems).
I agree that knowing people and making connections is key, but it's perfectly reasonable for a hacker to develop those relationships in the course of building a successful startup. You don't need to be born knowing those people, or even have worked with them directly -- you can meet them at conferences, or through other introductions, and build relationships over time. When it comes time to do deals (or just getting bugs fixed), it's great if they have a pre-existing relationship with you, even if it's not an especially close one.

Also, top-tier investors (YC, SV Angel, angels, VCs like Sequoia, A-H, Kleiner, Accel) will help you make those connections. Or getting a well connected lawyer (e.g. Ted Wang at Fenwick) to represent you.
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Then you weigh in favour of those that aren't very good developers but are good at navigating office politics.
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I think the problem is that -3 < 1 but -3 > 1U because the -3 is "promoted" (quietly corrupted) to UINT_MAX - 2 (edit: C99 guarantees this value). So the question is whether a small unsigned bitfield is handled like a signed int (which can represent all its possible values) or an unsigned int (which is more like what you asked for).

It's just astounding how many developer-years have been wasted by the industry's insistence on producing and accepting wrong answers when commodity hardware has been maintaining under/overflow flags for literally my entire career.
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I'd bet this acquisition happened almost entirely due to relationships and salesmanship. Most hackers who don't already know the right people (e.g. former Googlers) would have no chance of pulling this kind of thing off.

They were a YC company. As has been previously noted, YC gives you lots of advantages.

I suspect PG (& YC) would encourage everyone to try becoming a YC company too.
Hmm. I don't know, I started some of my own projects precisely because what I did at work was not intellectually satisfying. The boredom of working on mundane things made me want to do something new and innovative (well, at least new and innovative to me) in my spare time. So I'd say it really depends on a person rather than a job. If you want to learn you'll learn.
Looks cool and polished. Email client space is heating up, I wonder how this will fare against sparrow.

By the way, does anyone know how the DOF effect in the video is achieved? Guess it was added during post processing in software.
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Congrats on building something people want AND exiting! Thanks for writing about your experience (this was the good kind of post mortem)

I think another consideration for a (good) founder is "what happens to my team". If I had spent 2-3y building a great team, and had normal startup equity distribution (founders had a lot relative to virtually all employees), there would be a bit of a disconnect in motivations.

Selling a company where you own 10-20% for $100mm is life changing, at least for me. Even if it means working for a really shitty acquirer (e.g. Yahoo) for 2 or even 4 years, that might be enough money to make it personally worthwhile. After all, you could kick back and emphasize "work/life balance", especially after years of startups -- maybe work on non-commercial side projects, maybe teach or take classes, do hobbies, etc., while working at a stable job. Then do your own awesome company, self funded (or VC financed on very favorable terms) in a few years.

However, for employees, it might only be $50-500k of equity payout. That still leaves an employee in the "must work for a living" category, and I personally would be a whole lot happier going to work every day for an awesome small team at an independent company, or for a great acquirer or a PE/fund style "hands off" acquirer (where the team/product stays intact), than to get a $50-100k bonus to go work for Yahoo for 2 years.

A lot of the entrepreneurs I respect the most, who have recently done M&A deals, explicitly valued "what happens to the employees and the company" pretty highly. A lot of them ended up selling to companies like Amazon which have kept operations intact at their acquisitions, vs. the Yahoo-style glue factory.
None of those companies are the companies that are selling you things when you buy stuff off of Amazon.com.

If that company actually had a presence in CA (as it does in for example WA) you would pay sales tax in CA (as you do in WA).

This is exceedingly cut and dry. I don't understand why people have a hard time groking it. Even the Californian government gets it. That's why they have to go out of their way to drag Amazon Associates into the mess.
They're very useful when it comes to pulling sub-byte fields out of network packets.

That is, if you don't mind tying your code to a particular platform and compiler. The alignment and packing of bitfields is implementation dependent: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1490092/c-c-force-bit-fie...

For what it's worth, I use bitfields on occasion, but only to save memory and get better warnings when storing range-limited values. It's nice to have the compiler warn about a comparison always being true or false due to the limited range of a type. The performance of bitfields is probably worse than just tossing all my boolean values into an int32_t or int8_t.
I wonder if this was a conscious decision on the part of Google. It seems more likely that Google went through some sort of user-centered design process and it was just coincidence that what they needed to build didn't require that many new components.
It was a few years ago so I forget the exact kit, but I too was at that store and pleasantly surprised to see an adult having fun with legos on the box. Especially since there were plenty of adults, myself included, having fun in the store.