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They were more prepared only in context of Von Clausevitz's delusional view of military strategy. Bureaucracies that were European armies of that time had completely lost all touch with warfare and its tenets. Napoleon was one of the last great European Military commanders. Nowadays mobility is again rightfully viewed as most important property of an fighting force.

Preparation is not about spending the most money - its like saying that 00's startups were way more prepared than nowaday's companies. No they only foolishly blew more resources.

A great general (or businessman for that matter) needs to have a knowledge of art, history, psychology, rhetorics, economics, philosophy and lastly military strategy (and also needs to be physically fit). That is what Sun Tzu really teaches. Being well rounded in all life's aspects gives one sufficient power to rise to any challenge.

Not some brutish spending of money and lives. Be it war or business.

As Sun Tzu said: It is best to win without fighting. And if we return to the French - they could have won WW2 without fight - if their deluded politicians wouldn't load Germans with unfulfillable liabilities.
I was curious what their developer agreement actually says; I didn't bother signing up us a developer, but their FAQ states:

"What is the payment structure between Amazon and me?
Amazon pays developers 70% of the sale price of the app or 20% of the list price, whichever is greater."

https://developer.amazon.com/help/faq.html#Sales, Payment and Tax

That's clearly the bit the author was referring to as being deceptive: in public they state that developers will always get at least 20% of the list price (which leads some people to think developers still get paid when their apps are listed as free), but in private they ask developers to take 0% of the list price when they promote the app as the "free app of the day."
Is there a "cranky old man tag"? The OP just seems to lack vision.

This post is along the lines of the old "everything that will be invented has been invented" saw. Social activity / interconnection of the twitter/facebook type is just in its early days. To say that we somehow fully understand everything that will arise from that, just 4-5 years in, is amazingly (if not link-baitingly) shortsighted.
Sounds like mostly talent:

"Although Facebook isn't planning to start publishing digital books, the ideas and technology behind Push Pop Press will be integrated with Facebook, giving people even richer ways to share their stories. With millions of people publishing to Facebook each day, we think it's going to be a great home for Push Pop Press."
This is a great question that requires an answer that is both philosophically and technologically deep

Most articles I've read with a headline like this, the question posed involves an impractical show of technical prowess
Your second part is spot on, but the first question is not about the "yes/no" but the "why". Of course we invent, but the question is to find to what extent they are willing to go.
When you have 100 or more buffers open, you may have two files with the same name. Using uniquify (require 'uniquify) helps differentiate them. Instead of getting file<1> and file<2> you get file:"directory_1" and file:"directory_2".
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Your valuation multiple (ie: 3x annual revs) is going to vary widely for a content site. @pitchups makes a good point about profits being used instead of revs, especially if you're buying a lot of traffic.

The reason multiples are low for content sites is that content needs to have a constant rate of production to maintain much/any revenue. Non-professional service businesses (like carpet cleaning, not like accounting) have the same issue & many sell for 0.5-1x annual revs. You won't be quite as bad off though, since you should have a much higher margin than a carpet cleaning biz.

Some things that might help you attract a higher multiple: membership site with frequent logins, high growth-rate (ie: you discovered the right niche or marketing), or advertiser contacts (like direct advertiser or agency buyers, instead of revs being run-of-site or AdSense).

If you don't have any of the above going for you, then you'll have a hard time finding 3x.
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Most of the good advice I have read or heard generally says to go with a local bank or a credit union. With the major banks, like Bank of America or Citi, you're just a number (unless you've lots of money). Working with a local institution is more personal.

I am fond of credit unions, simply because they are member-owned and generally are fairly competitive for basic services.

I don't know much about handling merchant services, as that's not the type of business I do. I think warehouse clubs like Costco and Sam's Club also offer those sorts of services of business members.
I read the letter you linked to. I'm very confused what you are trying to say to me.

Who is Stanley? I can't fully discern what you are saying about this letter; it sounds like there is some in-fighting between the leaders of a website that was publishing articles about 911 demolition theories. What does this have to do with our debate?

I don't know if you are serious about this directed-energy weapon. I think there is more credibility to the thermate theory, but I don't really know the details of space-based weapons. It sounds like science fiction.

Maybe I am just wasting my time responding to this. In this discussion I was merely trying to say that there are valid questions that have been raised about the official 9/11 story. Why are people so inclined to dismiss any such qeustioning as ludicrous?
Most of my work in the last 8 years or so involves 'glue' or 'connections'. That is take two (or more) boxes and hook them together into a pipeline. Not sure if that qualifies one way or the other. The work certainly didn't exist before but I'm not entirely sure I'd call it 'invention'. I suppose in the interview suggested, I'd probably answer yes and then go on to describe as much as my NDAs allow...
Good idea. You should try using fewer words to describe it though.
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That is a pretty cool question. Aside from ferreting out the mentality of the candidate or team (like are you bio-sciences and need to invent, or are you a CRM software maker and have NIH?), it probably tells a lot about the kinds of problem you're dealing with.

It turns out that I don't invent anything. I discover things that I never realized and perhaps nobody else has realized. Things like commonalities in seemingly different problems, generalized approaches to solving those problems, and other things that are intrinsic to the domain but not necessarily apparent. This is distinct from creating something new in that domain, and I think it's important to recognize that.

update: based on this, I'm going to start asking "Have you ever discovered something?" It really doesn't matter if it's original, but I want to work with the kinds of people who are capable of making discoveries for themselves.
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The question of bias is an excellent one to ponder. I agree that my phrasing is biased, but so is:

The last three times you faced a "build or buy (/use open source)”
situation, which did you choose, and why?

...in a way, as it only covers places where there is a perception that there was a straight-up choice.

One of the things I am interested in is places where the invetion-oriented folks didn’t perceive there was a buy/borrow option, because they had bought into a requirement that seemed to necessitate invention.
> In other words, this could have been a perfectly typical and rational IT or CS decision, like the many similar decisions we all make every day; but this one had quite atypical economic consequences.

In other words, it is the exact same kind of pragmatic decisions as all the rest of the author's examples, but is simultaneously different.
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Yeah, the language is a little pretentious but I believe that's the sort of invention they're looking for
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It depends what you mean. If you mean using asymptotic analysis on a "new" algorithm to figure out its running time (master theorem, recurrence relations, etc.), then probably never.

If you mean using your knowledge of computational complexity to inform your choice of algorithms and data structures, then all the freaking time.
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About Unicorn. Shopify's internal software that runs the entire company.
The idea itself is simple: charge a fixed amount for the connection itself, to cover things like physical line maintenance, billing, customer service, etc. Charge a variable amount for use of the connection. That variable amount does not have to be a fixed dollars-per-byte rate.

I'd imagine that the casual e-mail users would pay on the order of $20-30/month (Comcast already offers such a plan in my area, making it cheap by limiting the speed rather than the transfer quantity), average users would pay about what they pay now ($50-60), and heavy users might pay $100-200.
Ugh, another article offering a platitude.

No, removing your options is never good. No amount of anecdotes can change that. You will probably come to a point where you'll wish you had the option, because everything's crashing down.

Removing other people's options, like in the anecdote, might be good for you, though.

Am I the only one who's tired of these empty articles all the time? "I take cold showers to prove myself", "I burn my boats to make sure I can't leave", etc. I don't think they serve any purpose.
I wrote unicorn initially. Ask me any questions about it. The article does a good job giving the outline but there is a lot more to it.
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Sad to see. This was the only promising execution of ebooks for the tablet age, and Facebook is where it goes to die? I know they probably got obscene amounts of cash, but it is still disheartening to see innovations swallowed up by decidedly non-innovative companies.
Here is a blog post I wrote in seventeen paragraphs over lunch. Had I more time, I would have written it in seven.
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Excellent work! Small problems:

- Undo doesn't work for style changes

- Selecting text and changing to heading still changes the entire paragraph to heading
You're right, it sounds like that. But it wasn't. I can't go into more detail, but I and my colleagues have some experience in identifying things that are best simply handed off to a "proper" database. This wasn't one of them.
There are a lot of points in this - both in the sales pitch that Amazon gave the developers and the outcome of having participated - that are strikingly reminiscent of the Groupon experience for some businesses. (Many, even, based on the links dibarnu posted.)

http://posiescafe.com/wp/?p=316
If there's one thing I've learned in my career, it's that people who don't keep a plan 'B' (and preferably 'C' and 'D') in mind are the absolute worst to work for. This attitude is nothing more than a lazy refusal to maintain a complex strategy, poorly disguised as heroism.
It seems like a purely promotional placement, Amazon isn't giving you money that neither you nor they received -- that seems perfectly reasonable to me. If you don't want to bear the auxiliary costs like server load or customer service, you don't have to agree to it.

If Amazon is correct, though, this promotion should mean that post-promotion sales are higher than pre-promotion sales. But the chart ends on the day of the promotion. Though there's a little text about it, I'd be curious about more detail on how things are shaping up afterwards.

Either way, up to them of course, but it feels a bit extreme to me to abandon ship because of agreeing to an unsuccessful promotion and because they're behind in features vs. the Google market.
IIRC there were data retention proposals in Europe that included URLs and email headers, so when someone says "data retention" in the US people connect the dots. Even if they're the wrong dots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti...
And think of the classic code for copying a NUL-terminated string. Unless I'm missing some clever optimization, replacing it with a length-based version would require another counter variable -- meaning the algorithm would use another register (or even possibly two on an 8-bit machine) and require another operation for each character. Not such a big deal now, but it would have been a big advantage for NUL-termination back in when C was designed.
>"Every right-thinking person abhors child pornography."

Every right-thinking person abhors what they consider to be child pornography.
How are you using Google+?
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A movie length documentary is actually something I am working on putting together. Delving into all that goes into being an entrepreneur. You can check out e-Dreams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ELRug6fOM) or Startup.com (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ27rbJH6hI)for examples of older documentaries that are models for what I'd like to produce.

Truly believe that having a full length documentary that outlines what can truly happen in a startup can help inspire people to get involved (as The Social Network seemed to do).

Have 2 video guys (one produces for MTV True Life) involved in helping out. If anyone has ideas let me know! frank at songsicle dot com
EU has already similar data retention laws for ISPs, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti...

I'm not sure how well they work in practice in individual member countries. I recall some ISP guys complaining about how this required Denmark to essentially save all netflow data which would be a huge data storage requirement, but maybe it got relaxed. I can't say I exactly have heard of it being the base of any arrests.
Exactly. Software design is a matter of tradeoff. Build vs buy is one of them.
This. Business books like Rework are about sharing ideas from the authors. People who read it want to share it with other people they know, too, which is why a paper version is great - it's continuously share-able.
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It's a subtle challenge. The reason DJs cannot play music alone is that the audience has no choice of the song. So while DJs are clearly interacting/choosing songs, the majority of listeners are passive.
That assumes that the string characters are not adjacent to the string length field in memory...

(Edited to add) More explicitly: Grandparent specified length-prefix strings, where the string's length is stored in memory immediately before the string's characters. And his claim is correct in that case.

You seem to be assuming a string object which consists of a length and a pointer to the characters. What you suggest certainly would work there, but any straight-forward implementation of this is going to require another pointer's worth of memory and two memory allocations for each string, too.
always been friends with all of my cofounders on facebook. actually, facebook doesn't even need to be in that sentence, we're just friends in general :P. don't see any reason why that shouldn't be the case.
Man, just reading that question makes me a little giddy. I'd be pretty excited to hear that in an interview.

Also, a punny title which is actually a pun on the subject of the article? I think I might be in love.
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I've also learned a valuable lesson - however angry you are, openness and honesty will always win over in the end. Structure a logical argument, stand your ground, and idiots/scammers like Brian DiVita will expose themselves without you needing to lift a finger.

I fear you've reached the wrong conclusion. Haters gonna hate, and there is no way you can answer them all. The more you sell, the more crazy people will be among your "customers" and some of them will have a bad day and take it out all on your tea and you. The victory over one hater may make you happy for a day, but you can't scale it.

Focus on encouraging public praise from your happy customers.
Hopefully this will be an endcap to the public side of this, at least. Here's hoping she can get what reimbursement she's entitled to and get back to her life.
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Yes. Thanks for pointing that out. H1B visa holders make a very minute percentage of the total number of foreign workers. The visa laws are meant to protect American jobs but there are some loopholes that are being utilized to misuse the visa (around 20% misuse is reported).

I have been trying to find a startup in NYC to work with but haven't found the right one yet.
Thanks for sharing your experience. While it's great that your app got featured by Apple, it would have been more informative if you could have gauged the effect of your updates to the app before the Featured App effect kicked in.
Saying 'as shown in Egypt' handwaves over the real story - the preparation that went into being ready for the moment when it arose.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/16/revolution_...

http://maidhcocathail.wordpress.com/2011/02/18/the-junk-bond...

Social media was used but it was tool in the hands of already prepared people who were willing to risk their lives.
Very rational. I agree that the Amazon model is not broken, its just different (I did not mean to suggest it was broken, though I can see that being implied from my statements). I also agree that it is OK for the developer to publicize (critically) that there was an alternative/non-public agreement to become the app of the day which varies from the publicized terms. At the end of the day, you are both "right". There are types of apps that this can work well for (which I think you do a good job arguing for) and there are pitfalls to the system which Amazon tries to not make public (which I'm thankful to the author for having written about).
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> A massive chain of unknown purpose along the corridor to the smaller, secondary lift.

I don't see how you can walk passed a giant chain laying 9000 feet underground and not ask anyone about it (what it's purpose is).
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Has anyone actually seen the text of this "last-minute rewrite"? I'm skeptical, because I've been seeing this fear broadcast about this bill since day one. Maybe I'm naive, but it seems like a pretty large leap from temporary ip addresses to bank account numbers, names, phone numbers, etc. Every reference I can find to this bill still only contains the text for the initial retention of ip addresses.

Would love to see verification of the broader scope.
I think this, like the Patriot Act and countless others, is indicative of a problem with the way in which we name our bills. No politician wants to be the guy that voted against the "Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011", when that can be taken out of context of the actual text of the bill and used as a political weapon against him/her. Haven't we realized that our current system of naming bills leads to a system in which our representatives are politically pressured to vote for or against a bill based upon a sensationalist and misleading name?
Yes,

All programming is inventing.

But not all good programmers see programming as inventing. I'm not sure you wind-up better by weeding out those who don't programming as inventing.
That makes working on visa a little difficult, doesn't it?
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This is taken to an extreme though. I doubt that mp3.com had a physical stereo for each person trying to play music on the site.
Slightly off-topic: I've been reading Clasewitz's "On War" recently, so I'd appreciate it if you could say a little more about what's delusional about it.
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That's exactly what I use, Uniquify and Ido.
Yeah, he's not wrong about this, but I also don't think that we have settled on what's best right now for developing big time interactive apps for web, which is why there's 40 thousand microframeworks right now. I do think this will start to grind to a halt naturally as HTML5/JS developers mature and apps become proven in the market.
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I wonder how Mike Matas would feel after a year of being at Facebook...

When I first read about them and heard his TED talk, I really believed in what he was saying, that they aspired to change the way the world reads. I believed in his revolution...

So, this is definitely a let down...
Facebook is up to something really big.

Awhile ago they brought on Brandon Walkin (http://www.brandonwalkin.com/blog/) who is, arguably, one of the most detailed-oriented user interface designers on the planet. He's also a very talented Cocoa developer and apps that he's worked on have won Apple Design Awards.

Next, they acquired Sofa, another Apple Design Award-winning design & software firm who have created some of the best-looking apps for OS X.

Now they nabbed Push Pop Press, founded by Mike Matas and Kimon Tsinteris, who were both instrumental to the launch of the iPhone on the software side.

Facebook is building an army of UI designers/developers who 1) used to work at Apple, or 2) have built apps Apple has deemed best-in-class.

I'd be really surprised if Facebook isn't working on something big to go up against Apple and Google. There were rumors of a Facebook phone, perhaps Facebook is building their own hardware and need a world-class design team to craft its OS? I can't see Facebook sticking all this amazing talent on a redesign of Photos or Chat, or updating icons in Facebook's iPhone app.
Oh, hell no. Scorching Amazon for scorching the earth is exactly what is needed. You cannot comprehend the reality of a common good.
Movie studios are involved, yes. E.g. they are well known for their accounting/legal maneuvers to try and avoid paying people a percentage of movie profits by claiming that the movie didn't turn a profit, even if it is one of the highest grossing films in history (i.e. Stan Lee and Spiderman).