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I have a F/T+ day-job where I work for one company 30-40 hours a week (it's supposed to be about 20) and am on loan to another company about 25 hours a week. Then I come home and work on my Startup with my co-founder 2-3 hours a day and full days on most weekends...about 20-30 hours a week. So I usually put in 60-70 hour weeks on the low end.

Recently a co-worker had to take an extended leave of absence and my hours at my main company ballooned to full-on 50-60 hours + the 25 hour side job + the startup. Needless to say my startup work had to take a reduction in hours with my co-founder flying solo for a bit (which was hard on her because we just got a bunch of coverage on killer startups, feed my app and a ton of Spanish language tech sites). But for a couple of months I was pulling 90-100 hour weeks.

My co-worker has returned and my weeks have fallen back to their regular 60-70 hour pattern.
Maybe you've never seen it in Scheme because Scheme's standard library is so anemic. Of the usual FP higher order list manipulation functions it only provides map! And people are understandably reluctant to have everyone write their own differently named library functions. The situation has probably improved since the list manipulation SRFI (I think it is SRFI-1), as those are quite popular and available in most implementations.
There are many places an american can go. Unlike the USA, most countries don't tax your worldwide income. So, for instance, you could become a citizen of any of the EU countries that don't tax worldwide income, and earn your income outside that country tax free (and live outside it as well.)

I know of several countries within the EU where you can be a citizen and pay essentially no taxes, or extremely low taxes. These are very pleasant places as well. For instance, one location is the side of a very nice lake in switzerland (Campoin d' Italia) and Andorra has some nice tax advantages, and one of the best climates in Europe. Monaco is not bad, though expensive for my tastes, while Licthenstein, Austria, Switzerland, and all this british islands whose existence is for purposes of avoiding taxes aren't too bad either.

The idea that you can't have a high quality of life in China or India compared to the USA seems silly to me, but I haven't lived in either of those countries. There are many countries in Latin, South America, Asia and Europe where you can have as high a quality of life as the USA, or higher, and at much less cost than the USA.

I think the idea that anywhere desirable is worse than the USA is a kind of parochial perception. Of course ones preferences can vary, but, for instance, in many ways much of eastern europe is nicer than the USA, even though they are "poorer". There are many countries that are in many ways richer, or where you can have a better quality of life at the same or less cost.

I just think that people in every country believe that their country s superior to others, and can't imagine how anyone would want to live in another country... but they also haven't experienced those other countries.

I've visited a lot of countries, and have yet to visit one that was terrible, and about %50 of them are better than the USA in noticeable ways, and the ones that aren't as good, aren't as good in ways that aren't really all that bad.
Will be interesting to see what the percentage of visitors is that end up paying to not see this wall. I see a lot of parallels with donationware, and all evidence from that indicates it's not possible to live off just donations.

So I hope there will be a followup.
What I don't like in such articles is that they never give a clue how one can go from the bad category (obsessive passion) to the good (harmonious passion), and whether it's ever possible.
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"but it is a lot harder to come up with new ideas."

I would like to start with it, but the above statement keeps me out. I'm still thinking about what to start with.
Good Point.

For instance, New Zealand. Nice place. Great People. First class quality of life-- better than the USA. Higher taxes than the USA in many ways, but the government is so much less corrupt that the taxes are much less of a burden. You don't mind paying when you see you're getting value for the money.
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your translation reads similar to mine.
Wow!!! If this was intended to be an introduction to Programming then what would a special/advance topic in programming be??
Regarding mini payments, what about Google Checkout for the chrome web store? If Checkout accounts are the same as Android Market accounts, you have lots of people with credit cards on file already for 1-click payments.
For those who haven't read SICP: don't get the impression that it only deals with very easy stuff like the example in the post about turning a recursive definition into an iterative one. It actually touches on many of the bet ideas in CS. This post could have easily chosen a more interesting example.
I'm in the middle of a somewhat heated difference of opinion on whether we use evercookie for a site I'm working on. This will help my arguments sound less peace & love-y.
Xfce?
The icons are all rendered as vectors using SVG which IE < 9 doesn't understand.
Yes, the American attitude is really "I have it hard so FUCK YOU" rather than "We all have it hard. Why is that?" Poor and middle class Americans absolutely hate anyone who they think is getting something they "don't deserve," such as healthcare or services, rather than asking why they themselves don't also have it.
What does your comment have to do with what I wrote? No one is denying that many people really want a vocational education. No one is claiming that smart people should want to be academics. The point is that what people want is not computer science. Civil engineers do not enroll in physics programs and then complain that their physics professors are not teaching them anything about practical bridge construction.
IMHO.
They do not need to clone Facebook, they need to create something better, or at least make people believe it is better.
Easier to use, and new features, no the same stuff.
Better privacy policy, etc.
I was commenting with employee-drivers in mind. Clearly if they're working for themselves, they pay all the expenses!

I should've also clarified that when I said "criminal" it wasn't in the specific legal sense, and more along the lines of "evil".

Everyone understands how it works, and the system works...

Yeah, but this doesn't mean the workings are either right or acceptable.
I am most impressed by the 900 lumens. This is a true 60 watt replacement, unlike the LEDs that claim to be 60 watt replacements, but actually output far less lumens, and claim "it's OK, the light is directional, so it counts for more".

And the 10 watt is impressive too - that's better than CFLs (13 watt), which is not something I've seen before in an LED.

Most commercial LEDs in the market today (and by market I mean physical stores, not specialty online places) are worse than CFLs in a lumens/watt measure. (And they rarely actually tell you the true lumens.)

I'm not personally willing to pay more than about $5 for such a bulb, but the price will come down. (Since I can get 10,000 hour CFLs for $2.)

Edit: Maybe I will pay more - those 3 watts in savings add up to about $11 over the 25,000 hour life of the bulb.
> If a truck driver (or anyone on the road) gets flipped off, it is usually because they are driving a huge vehicle too aggressively and dangerously

Really? How do you know? Have you done a study?
I think it comes down to whether you want to teach programming, or computer science. If it's the former, just teach to POKE with BASIC. If it's the latter, I think you'll quickly find yourself in want of a more sophisticated language, in order to teach any of the non-trivial concepts.
When I was in uni I got my introduction to programming in C. And it was the most funny and mind-opening course in my first year. So, I think it's subjective.

I agree that C++ is a complicated language, specially when you use Boost or Tools.h++, or the even make things worse. But when you teach beginners to code in C++ and only utilize STL, I believe it would be an interesting and challenging course. Plus, in an entry level course, you only need to introduce the basics of programming, which are (in an abstract sense) general logic principles and language agnostic.
"So, the only reason ... would be if google was planning to use them against the group, if it won them."

This is plainly false. Bidding in a group with many of the same companies you need potential defense against is counterproductive assuming you can win by yourself (if Google sees Microsoft, Oracle and Apple as it's primary threats it needs defense against, bidding with Microsoft Oracle and Apple obviously gives them no defense against those threats).

I'll take Google at their word that they wanted any and all of these patent pools for purely defensive reasons. Of course I have a feeling that Google's ideology is driven by circumstance and if they had 20K+ patents like Microsoft/IBM/Intel/Samsung/etc. they would be aggressively enforcing them.

I call bullshit on Google's converse claim that the other parties only wanted these patents for offensive reasons. How much has Google paid out in patent claims this year compared to Apple?

Note: the related claim that these other parties only wanted them to hurt Android was blown out of the water by Microsoft in the linked article.
> It shouldn't be too hard to make it work better than the mess KDE and GNOME are at this point.

Yeah, I bet you could build that in a weekend...
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Remember when there was talk about Obama modifying the terms of underwater mortgage holders, but it was illegal? My non-lawyer opinion is that's what we'll see with patents -- future software patents may become difficult to obtain, but existing ones will have to be litigated individually.
If the US had a safety net for people who lost their jobs and couldn't afford to pay their rent or grocery or medical bills, and if the US had a more reasonable minimum hourly wage, and if the US had more regulations to protect both truck drivers and other drivers on the road, it wouldn't happen.

Instead, the law says they can drive 14 hours. They are paid peanuts and have to pay for their own gas and repairs. And, as the article explained, if he was late -- due to the fault of his CUSTOMER -- then he'd lose an entire day waiting around. Which he can't afford, because he's paid peanuts, and there's no safety net.

The system is set up to create this exact situation, and if you don't like it, don't blame the individual, blame the system. Blaming the individual gives you that flair of righteous feeling in your chest but it doesn't change a damn thing. If this man decided to drive only 8 hours a day, he'd be out of a job and somebody else would simply take his place and do the 14-hour runs yet again.
Damn do I know what you mean. I pull 20+ on consulting but it's getting to the point where it's affecting my health.

I'll stop soon, probably go full time consulting so I can actually have a life.

Best of luck.
One has got to admit the Windows 7 interface is great.

Opinions. I hate the Windows Interface with a passion, the same goes for OS X, and I'm not too fond of G3 either. It's just needless clutter, completely pointless blingbling, bloat and is generally unusable.

I say that as someone who hasn't been on Linux for too long (about a year now), and slowly worked his way from Ubuntu 10.04 to a custom Arch Linux install running Xmonad, and I'm never going back to stacking WMs on my main machines. Ever. All they do is hinder productivity.
Exactly. Gnome3 tries to reduce the time you spend searching for icons+windows and/or sorting them. That's the most time consuming task for a desktop user. It makes total sense to improve on that.
I'm also faster at finding an icon when I first need to show the activities bar, instead of looking for it in an always-visible taskbar.

How is that possible? Shouldn't the taskbar be faster to access?
It's selective perception: The longer you stare at something, the less interest it holds for the brain.
Example: You see 20 individual looking apples in front of you. Each has it's own shape/color. You sit in front of those apples for hours, you don't exactly recognise them during work. Focusing on them again and finding a specific one is going to take longer as if they were hidden from view and just pop into view each time you want one.
It's interesting how boldly he states on the front page that "conspiracy theories are wrong":
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/

Why would some rich people conspire to get more power? That would be immoral.
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You dont want build a clone anyway. What you want is a product that does something similar, while being more enjoyable to use.
Operational & denotational semantics, for example...

Dana S. Scott. Outline of a mathematical theory of computation. Technical Monograph PRG-2, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, Oxford, England, November 1970.

Dana Scott and Christopher Strachey. Toward a mathematical semantics for computer languages Oxford Programming Research Group Technical Monograph. PRG-6. 1971.

Gordon D. Plotkin. A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics. (1981) Tech. Rep. DAIMI FN-19, Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Sorry, you seem to be agreeing with the opposite of what I was trying to say in my comment :-)
All of the people in the examples made money as salaried financial services employees or through stock. So for example, the programmer didn't make her money from selling her programming products; she sold her stock, a financial instrument.
Microsoft: "We asked [Google] to bid jointly with us. They said no."
> Those are the only requirements for money.

Obviously they are not. The requirement that it should be difficult to duplicate is essential.
Calling Google's bluff: Which patent is bogus? Why not open source their code?
On the recipient end, what I'd like to see is some kind of central place I can go to which stores all the links people have shared with my email/FB profile/twitter etc. I can then sort through the list by date, category or whatever. If I don't have an account already, I link my email/profile info and it shows me the stuff waiting for me.

Obviously this would require some centralised service and for all sharing services to integrate with it - so perhaps this isn't much use. I'd certainly find it useful though. All these links pass me by if I'm busy.
The comparison with Germany doesn't hold water.

Germany did not have a property bubble and hence it did not have an outsized building sector crashing, taking huge numbers of jobs with it.

German households have been saving like crazy forever. They are not indebted at all. Germany does not have to fight a deleveraging spiral.

Germany did not have a huge current account deficit. It has a huge current account surplus meaning Chinese growth does the Keynsian stuff for Germany.

Germany has a permanent stimulus resulting from sharing a currency with the likes of Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy.

German companies fire as few people as possible in a recession. That's a huge Keynsian effect as well and one I don't see many US conservatives pointing to when they celebrate German austerity.

And by the way, German "austerity" comes in the form of a deficit north of 3 percent, exceeding the level allowed under the Maastricht treaty. In comparison to other countries that's still low, but it's not austere by any definition and it comes at a time when the German economy is booming.

Austerity is what the Brits do and look at their growth. It's around zero, worse than in the US.
A lot of these arguments have the 'tipping culture' as the basis.

My position is that the way this is set up in the USA is plain wrong - tips should be a voluntary gratuity from the customer to thank the waiter for a job well done.

Once that is the case, then establishment's only responsibility is to pay the employee a minimum living wage, making no assumptions about tips. This is pretty much the way it works in a large swathe of the world, and seems to be working pretty well.
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Can we all just agree that to be good at any technology, it is pretty darn hard? But I've done enterprise Java/.NET, web development,and iPhone development. If we are talking about what is easier for a beginner to pick up (some HTML/CSS/JS with something like Rails or Django backend), I would definitely recommend web development over Java/.NET/Obj-C.
It's considerably easier (IMO) to get started in web development than in iOS development. Web development has a fairly gentle learning curve and I personally know a bunch of people that started their careers hacking in php. iOS development has a gentle learning curve if you already know C, which even some CompSci graduates don't nowadays.

I don't think this was intended as a put down, it's just a fact that there are a ton of ways to put together a simple web app and some of them are very accessible.
If one applies Brooks Law then it could be said that a team of 20 Elite hackers could build it in half the time. Also if you consider how much infrastructure is already in place for G+ (Accounts, Advertising, Services as Google Docs, Picassa, etc.) (which is obviously topic of this article) and that beyond front-end most of the work that probably had to be done was building circles and integrating backend infrastructure.

Yes my analysis is silly - but not any sillier than that of the original author (Lets hope Google has 500 people working on it?).

But just to participate in senseless speculation I foresee that Google will release development API's by November 2011. And that by summer 2012 G+ will be completely integrated into whole Google ecosystem, offering services that will completely dwarf what FB has to offer.

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15 people + 1 year -- for a significantly better version

People always underestimate a good, small team with the right tools.
the money is too low!
I am confused. Why would Google want to jointly bid on patents in a way they could not be used to protect itself and its partners from Microsoft?

Microsoft's council can't be so naïve.

Edit: by refusing to participate, Google indicated that either they wanted the patents in order to be able to defend against Microsoft or that they didn't find them worth the effort. The proposal could pretty much be the way Microsoft used to measure Google's interest and intentions
What you could do is find a maximum of valid addresses for their domain name, and setup an auto-responder with a nice complaining message sent to the whole list. Each spam you receive will then trigger a payload. They should get tired of this before you do :)
Ctrl is a modifier key. You'd really prefer not to have Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, etc? Each to their own, I suppose.
> The iPhone and iPad are the high-end of the smartphones and tablets.

I don't think this is the reason that the app store prints money as much as the 300+ million credit cards that iTunes has.
Remember there is often a difference between working hard and working smart. I would try to focus less on the amount of hours put in and instead just focus on what value you're adding to your project.
"I have yet to meet anybody who likes the unholy mess that is gnome-3." I like Gnome 3 (quite a bit), then again I don't know Linus.

On a another note, it seems every time he speaks he gets several hundred likes and yet he doesn't say anything particularly special/insightful compare to the other people in conversation (I found this somewhat humorous). :)
Absolute Gibberish.
> That is factually untrue: only the Federal Reserve can legally create new money in the US

That is factually untrue: Changes in the quantity of money may originate with actions of the Federal Reserve System (the central bank), depository institutions (principally commercial banks), or the public... The actual process of money creation takes place primarily in banks

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Modern_Money_Mechanics/Introdu...
C is actually a relatively simple language and a good choice for beginners.

I agree that you need to teach general logic principles which are language agnostic, but if you do this in the context of C++, the beginner is bound to waste a lot of his time fighting irrelevancies in the language.
The same could be said of any Turing-complete language (though I'll admit Scheme's macro system gives it a leg up when it comes to implementing new features.) But given that Scheme's syntax encourages thinking in terms of mathematical recursion, it seems silly that (a) I can't write something so simple as the Fibonacci function by using its traditional mathematical recursive definition, and that (b) SICP encourages the use of Scheme to solve problems which require thinking in terms of iteration and mutation -- this is a pedagogical faux pas.
I don't think you're familiar with the licence history of Java, Sun has long allowed free third party implementations of Java as part of it's attempt to get Java adopted as the standard development language.
Don't forget that Android is open source (except version 3, but we're talking about phones now). This means that if Google decided to charge for it, they could only do so on new versions, and anybody could start from an old one, fork it and bring it further. This is completely different from free non-open-source software, where it could be actually possible to raise prices once the competition is wiped out.
That title is worse because it contains the words "mobile platforms".
They actually looked at Android, Eclipse, the Linux kernel, MeeGo, Firefox, Qt, Symbian, and WebKit. Those aren't all "mobile" (per se) and they aren't all "platforms".
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That depends on your proclivities and the natural bent of your personality. Networking and marketing may not be as intellectually taxing as coding, but they can be physically and emotionally taxing when done in person for significant amounts of time. Of course, if you regard business dinners and networking as enjoyable, they won't seem as taxing!
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You are going to pay for the bandwidth again coming out of the DC - so it all depends on how cheap you can get it from Equinix for your other dedicated boxes.
/slow clap
That would be a great little data mining project!
Maybe in developing countries, but that's not the attitude in other first world countries, because they've pretty much all got it better than we do.
Thanks, but I'll stay with IRC and irssi.
Considering that there are pretty much no other open source mobile platforms, that is trivially true.
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