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I am looking for a technical co-founder
I just raised seed funding (more then YC invests) from the GreenStart accelerator/mentoring program in San Francisco for my cleantech software startup.

My technical co-founder is unable to join the startup/program due to reasons that are not related to the startup. This leaves me looking for a badass hacker to be the technical co-founder of the startup.

We are building transparency and democracy into the energy industry. We give users a free energy audit to see what their energy costs were, what fuels they used and emissions associated with their usage over the past 12-24 months.

The site has not been built so you can develop it any way you see fit. One of the biggest challenges is integrating with APIs and building a mint.com UX/UI.

Why am I a great co-founder? I am a business guy who has already raised money. I need you, a tech guy. I am working through LPTHW and http://krainboltgreene.heroku.com/log/2. I suck and understand now more then ever that I need a good technical co-founder.

I work hard and know the energy industry: about.me/jameshighsmith. I have spend the past five years in, on and around the energy industry. I have worked in research and hands on. This is not my first startup.

I am looking for a true partner to manage and build the tech side from the ground up. Because the accelerator program runs from September 12th through December 15th you will need to be in San Francisco full-time working on our startup. I am NOT looking for someone with a part-time job or freelance work, ONLY dedicated people need email me. We have over 6,000 sq ft of office space available as well.

So why should you join the team? I am offering 30% of the company to you, terms to be discussed. You are going to be working with and be mentored by some very successful entrepreneurs. I already have secured funding. We have a demo day in December to raise a second angel round if need be.

If you are interested in being a co-founder with me, shoot me an email: james@wa.tt
Well, someone hasn't yet.
In response, Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel tweeted, "Google says we bought NOVELL patents to keep them from Google. Really? We asked them to bid jointly with us. They said no."
Is there any security hole in this? Can an app register an intent on http and get access to all URLs Browser loads?
Is Dell "dumping" when they sell Ubuntu laptops and don't incorporate some sort of surcharge for me since I submitted a kernel patch for free? I can't imagine how open source software is ever part of a "classic definition of dumping". Are they dumping because they don't "take software development costs" of the radio firmware, or open source compression library, or (etc) into account? Besides, is the right response to "dumping" to collaborate with competitors to patent-block a common enemy?

I really, really don't understand your position, and that may be ignorance on my part.

(As for the SGS/II looking like the iPhone, that's really neither here nor there, but again, I don't think it excuses patent trolling.)
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If so it might be an interesting political tactic on S&P's part. Issue a downgrade to show you're serious, but include a 'math error' that justifies an almost-immediate retraction.

If a ratings agency feels that it's necessary to use scare tactics, that's scary enough in itself.
Dumping also means when the competition is wiped out the prices will be raised. Do you think Google is going to do this?
They've done a whole lot of hiring and not a whole lot of releasing. You've got to assume that investors are seeing/hearing something that the general public is not.

For example, Dropbox is well positioned to jump-start a significant enterprise business. Maybe they have something pretty incredible in the works?
Predicting the future is hard. At the time, most people seemed to think it was ludicrous that Yahoo was offering so much for Facebook.
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Surely the ambiguity is intentional.
Because the one thing almost every economist agrees on is raising taxes in a bad economy makes it worse.
it's superior to how even major banks handle digital security too, from what I hear.
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I'm actually thinking of getting a basic flip phone next. My iPad does 150% of what I wish a smart phone to do. I have it with me more than my current smartphone. It's a waste of money.
Would love to read this if it wasn't for Wordpress using OnSwipe. Why is this awful startup breaking website usability?
Even with an iPhone you can make your calendar and contacts live on Google's servers. Not that's necessarily an improvement for some.

For syncing contacts check the SyncInABlink app (no affiliation).
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I disagree. Tonight I heard a 70-year old grandmother observe with surprise that her best friend of 50 years, although quite computer-savvy, had not even heard of Dropbox! When your company is capturing a mass market to the point of going viral among grandmothers, the idea that it might be worth billions is not "retarded" or "just stupid".
For people who don't want to vote (and therefore cannot see the color key) The values are purple == iphone and blue == android, roughly equal with a combined 90% of the vote.
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Japan is even worse - with most tertiary education considered a break between high school and company, and your entry level position mainly determined by the name of your school... Hence the mad situation where your adult life hinges on one year of grueling study for the uni entrance exams!
They choose to accept the rates Medicare offers. When one party offers an amount for a second party's services, and the second party accepts, they have just established the market rate for that transaction.

Not when second party holds a monopoly on a certain patient population, as does Medicare for the elderly. The healthcare market is so distorted by government intervention that calling anything a true 'market rate' is laughable.
I think you are confusing sophistication and complexity. Part of the sophistication of Erlang is how it simplifies the complexities of concurrent programming and, more importantly, the handling of failures in concurrent programming.
Dumping just means you sell something below the actual cost to kill competition. I don't know what Google plans are, as I said their source of revenue is ads. They want to become the largest player in the mobile market - because they will be in control of mobile ads then - just like they are in search, controlling 80+ percent of it. Do you want to see this happen? I don't particularly like this prospect.
> Why now?

Because increases in consumption are no longer able to keep pace with increased productivity?
Thus far the risk of investing the SS surpluses into any investments other than US treasuries far out-weighed the risk of the US choosing to make SS forgive the debt incurred by said treasuries.

I've often argued that SSA should be allowed to invest some portion of the surplus (perhaps 10-20%) in AAA-rated municipal bonds. Perhaps the downgrade today will prompt more people to consider this.
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The comments from 2006 are also an interesting read: http://web.archive.org/web/20071028172358/http://www.techcru...
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That's mentioned in the article and has been posted several times. Even that tweet doesn't imply that Google actively vied for the patents, though, in my opinion, that's a pretty fair assumption.

This thread features a wider breadth of discussion about that particular tweet, in case you or anyone else might have missed it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2844722
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Do you have a source for the expenses that the average hospital incurs?
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Pulse looks pretty cool, but isn't it more of a replacement for Google Reader?

Can I use it for any url?
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With Dell you have a choice of buying a PC with Ubuntu, or Windows, or whatever. Other manufacturers can also do this. Will you be able to use Android phones without Android? No. I don't think your example fits well here.

Android OS is the most essential part to make Android phones operate. It does cost Google a lot of money to make, yet it gives phone manufacturers licenses for cheap, just to make phones cheap enough so that users chose them over iPhones. Google wants it so bad they are willing to lose a lot of money now hoping it will pay off in future when everyone has Androids. Apple (and Microsoft) who cannot use this model (they don't dominate in ads or search markets) obviously don't like this. How would you feel if you were Apple? So they will try to use patents to make Android licenses more expensive. I hope I explained it well this time.

P.S. I don't know what is the right response to dumping. With physical goods it's easy to prove. With software much harder. This does not mean dumping prices on phone OS software to kill competition is nice. Apple and MS are just using what they can within legal means. Google did not play it nice with them - why they should be nice to Google?
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...and further, how will it affect the price of tea in China?
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Other fascinating bits from that archived post:

1. It's amazing how many more comments there were on TechCrunch before Twitter sucked them all away.

2. It's amazing how many oddball bloggers there were back in 2006. All mostly gone and moved to Twitter/FB.
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What have you been imagining WiFi is all these years?
I tentatively agree that a tablet is better than a smart phone even on the road although a device with a 10.3-inch screen is too big to hold securely in one hand while using the other hand to input "gestures".

I tend to expect Apple to eventually sell tablets with 7-inch screens (and 15-inch screens) as well as the current 10.3-inch screens.
I agree it's a long-term improvement, but if "some workers could never find a job again" happens to the majority all at once, they aren't going to quietly starve.
Yeah, it's more like a typical episode of Dexter. (Not Dexter, but that week's killer/victim.)
It's interesting how people are choosing to first pick what company they want to be right, and then bending things to suit their desired reality.

Why can't people just say - Here's a situation and a company that I think is the Do'est No'est Evil'est company of all time is being a sore loser.

Google bid on the patents and it lost. It's a bit ridiculous to now claim some sort of divine right to be above patent law.

Also, FYI, google has a patent on their doodles. It's the height of hypocrisy to claim that patents for telecom technology aren't fair and at the same time patent a set of doodles.
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True, and numerous families across the US depend on the active and guard pay of the armed forces. However, by bringing troops home, there are a number of secondary costs that can be reduced, or eliminated. For example, one of the more famous recently has been the discussion of AC in Afghanistan. Per the NPR article:

http://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-w...

We are spending 20 billion a year to truck energy supplies across some of the worst terrain in the world so that we can provide AC to thousands of horridly inefficient tents for our soldiers in the field. For comparison, that's more than the entire yearly budget of NASA. And its only one of numerous logistics and support costs we incur in our active warzones.
That blog post has &amp; in the second code sample that shouldn't be there according to the (much better) original source: http://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/533/
It sounds like he's trying to turn a fun Austin startup into Dell. For those who aren't from Austin, Dell is basically the worst place you can end up as an Austin tech person. It's the bottom of the barrel -- the employer of last resort.

He's saying to document everything and to lock in a rigid process. That makes absolutely no sense for a startup. A startup is all about trying new things and giving up on them if they don't work out. Dumping huge amounts of resources into documentation and process runs completely counter to that idea.
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People talk about Larry and Sergey being visionary entrepreneurs, but they attempted to sell their vision for $1M to Yahoo at some point. Mark, on the other hand, has declined every offer to sell FB. I personally think the guy is visionary.
I've seen people master it quickly, writing their own behaviours etc..

I learned it on the tube to and from work in a relatively short space of time, writing a comet server for streaming updates to browsers with a colleague. After the initial hump it was easy and fun. I don't claim to be a genius programmer, just an interested dabbler.

To be fair though, the more average developer does struggle with it, and that was a reason my company didn't take it up widely.
This highlights a deeper problem in human psychology. It takes many otherwise intelligent people years to realize that the approval of some abstracted authority is not a useful measure of accomplishment. Many people never get over it.
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>> Trillions in debt is perfectly fine for an economy as large as America's.

No it's not. Wouldn't it be much better to not have to constantly pay billions to simply pay the debt's interest? We aren't even reducing the principal, which is why we have to keep raising the debt ceiling.

That's like saying it's perfectly fine to maintain a large credit card debt because you have a high income.

Just because you can handle it, doesn't make it wise.
'find' is an interesting animal: it* really only has a handful of traditional option parameters, and these are of the single-dash-single-letter variety. The single-dash-word parameters are all part of its expression language for selecting filesystem objects.

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Look at that picture again. If you're in the middle of that, you try to spend the least amount possible that results in detente. No conspiracy needed.
If you're trying to share galleries on dropbox but not to the whole internet, you should try views.fm:
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Fair enough, I was unaware of the common distinction in the CS domain.
Depending on how your search goes you might consider comparing notes or joining forces with Formative Labs.
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Everything about that link is gold.

One of the few prescient comments on that site is from a guy who apparently spends all of his time writing about Facebook.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071028172358/http://www.techcru...
Speaking of "usage" blurbs, for $DIETY's sake, please assume 80-character wide terminals.
I find this obsession with Israel downright eerie. Do you seriously think that if there were no Israel there would have been no war in Iraq and Afghanistan? Maybe not 9/11 even?
Not even wrong. Bad grasp of history and geopolitics, bad grasp of technological development, deceptive graph.
"Perhaps not everyone should invest in areas where they have no possibility of understanding the risks."

You just managed to sum up the vast majority of economics problems. Humans are dumb though. Not much you can do.
Yeah, that's great and all, but the fact is, the percentage of female engineers is very low to begin with, and in today's environment where talented and available engineers is incredibly low, you simply don't have the luxury to pass on qualified applicants in the hopes that someone who meets your "diversity quota" will show up.

I look for the following when hiring:

- Aptitude: Can they do the work?

- Attitude: Are they excited about what we do and the position being offered?

- Flexibility: Are they prepared to step outside the "role" and help out in areas that we don't have fully covered?

- Creativity: Are they going to come up with innovative solutions to the various problems we'll face going forward?

- Intelligence: Can they learn new things quickly? Things have a habit of changing fast in a startup.

- Maturity: Can they behave professionally towards everyone else and keep the work environment a safe, healthy place?

If an applicant meets these criteria, we don't stop to see what "group" they belong to; we snatch them up with all speed before someone else does!
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I wouldn't be surprised if it did. As microscopic and irrelevant as Bitcoin is, many of its users and prospective users skew anti-government and anti-central bank so anything contributing to that sentiment could generate a modest increase in activity.
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I wouldn't necessarily count on them being that close to anything that amazing at least from a technical standpoint. I'm starting to realize that as a company gets big, it takes more and more people just to keep things going, make sure their systems don't melt down, do support, analyze all the useage data they're generating, manage the other people, etc. They're only at like 60 employees, right? That's really not many for a site with 25M users, many of whom run an agent that constantly hits their servers asking if there are updates.

Twitter's done a lot of hiring (up to ~500 people) and not a lot of releasing (last real release was ... new twitter?). Are they working on something huge and secret? No, they're keeping the site from melting down, making things more efficient so that that they site won't melt down in a few months, and making incremental improvements to the growing number of pieces of their service.

I'm sure Dropbox is working on more, but I don't think that they've made significant progress on anything earth-shattering. I'd guess that they're showing investors some very solid revenue and usage trajectories and some plans on how they're going to extract more money out of more companies in fairly obvious ways. Maybe some early prototypes of something earth-shattering.

(Cue giant release proving me totally wrong within a month)
Regardless how you take this news, S&P just bought themselves a whole bunch of free advertising.

I don't think that was their primary goal but their name is now going to be mentioned on every newscast and in every paper everywhere for weeks.
Hi, I wrote the post, and just want to clarify, I have had the top grades of my class for my entire life. This is more so concerning with the need for grading and assessment more than competence. A five year old shouldn't be structured to only want grades because they aren't even in that environment yet.
Microsoft has previously been accused of "misusing patents to further an anticompetitive scheme against Android". Here's a link to the relevant article on groklaw:

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110427052238659

Disregarding your comments on patriotism and the USPTO (which I don't fully disagree with), the disturbing part about Google being unable to buy these patents, is that they appear to have been actively collaborated against in the auctions. Not being able to build a substantial patent portfolio denies them the ability to countersue in response to frivolous patent threats against Android, which I assume is a large part of why Google was willing to bid so highly for them.

Personally the part of the recent auction I found most disturbing was that the patents weren't sold to the highest bidder, they were sold to a conglomeration of bidders, some of which had already tapped out. To make a parallel with an art auction, it would be like half of the bidding floor banding together simply to ensure that another promiment bidder didn't get the piece. Possibly a valid action, but possibly anticompetitive, depending on the situation.
Well at least if they live in the US the government does not have to feed them all and provide shelter etc... At home they support the economy of the US by buying things whit their salaries here. Soldiers at home are cheaper than soldiers on a battleground. Add to that lower amount of injured soldiers etc... That's also a cost when you factor in the medical costs on the battlefield with the need for quick transport to a hospital etc and future disabilities.
There are lots of things we could do to end the recovery. They won't happen because they are not in the best short term interest of the politicians making the decisions. Natural selection has weeded out the congressmen that make decisions contrary to their ability to raise campaign money.

That is the root cause of the problem. Until that is solved, there's no point in dreaming up efficient solutions, because they won't happen.
It is original article's title. Lets keep it the way original author intended.