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I care about those companies who consistently, loudly and vocally oppose software patents.

That's not Google. They tried to play the game just like the others. The protesting seems to have started after they lost.
Your Scenario:
(25M * 100% paying* $120/customer * 50% margin)/$10BN= <10 PE Ratio
An extremely good deal by any measure.

Alternate Scenario 1:
(25M * 10% paying* $120/customer * 50% margin)/$10BN=66 PE

Alternate Scenario 2:
(25M * 10% paying* $200/customer * 50% margin)/$10BN=40 PE

Alternate Scenario 3:
(25M * 20% paying* $200/customer * 50% margin)/$10BN=20 PE

Btw- I have heard Dropbox has 20%conversion rates so scenario 3 is not that outlandish.

Another way to look at it- if you bought a stalwart tech company (Google/MS/EMC etc) at 66 PE multiple (Scenario 1) at IPO stage- you would have made money 2-3 years from then.

Question - how wide is Dropbox economic moat? Or more simply how low are Switching costs?

I have been analyzing internet companies sometime now for overvaluation and I don't Dropbox (from an outside in looking perspective) is overvalued.
We would be interested. We run http://picturepush.com and adult material is forbidden, but there is a lot of it added anyway (of course). A service for fixing that would be great.

I would expect, by now, someone would have made something automated for that kind of thing though...
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Yes, why? because NOBODY has enough money anymore.

Think about the Ford Mustang, as my understanding it was the first sports car and is relatively new. What does it mean? it means before the mustang it did not matter how much money you had, you drive the same car as everybody else.

Warren Buffet partner, dont recall his name now, has it right:"People will do a lot of things to be loved but will do Anything so other envy them"

In other words marketing has achieved a society that is on an envy war, when everybody is looking for ways to save money, so they can spend it in more shinny things, that means jobs are going to be just enough to produce whatever is going to be sold.

I live in Mexico, and from here what I see is that the USA is becoming Mexico, when I was hoping for the other way around.
You're describing S3, not their customer Dropbox. Adding a sharing layer on top is something easily replicable.
"How often do people doing startups get scared or strongly discouraged."

There are ups an downs. It's easy to get discouraged - and sometimes, you should be. The success ratio for startups is not very high. But the startup environment has a lot of perks, like working on interesting problems with highly enthusiastic people. Teams help, as does remembering to actually get out of the lab occasionally.
The obvious one is a difference in branching factor. Women can have ten children, and I would expect many more men than women die childless (not only because more than half of all newborns are male)
Learn Ruby the Hard Way was not written by Zed. It's Zed-supported. Different author though.
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The string-pullers behind the conservative "movement" see the Evangelical Christians for what they are -- a bunch of easily fooled suckers. (Especially the non-denominational types) They are insecure, fearful people who respond to the crazy message that's being sold.

One of the big motivations behind the pushing of non-denominational, stupid christianity as you get these large flocks of people attracted to the personality of the leadership of their church, but there's no doctrinal basis. The Catholics or Lutherans have their issues, but they won't allow the psychotics to retain power within their religion.
Concur. Fix the process around the existing web site. "Forking" should be a last resort.
I don't know what an ML/NLP is, but if you can program, and can pick up ios/Android programming in the next few months it shouldn't be that tough to find a gig, especially if you're willing to relocate ... programmers are very in demand right now.
It should make you scared enough that you start trying to prove you have value RIGHT NOW. Start a portfolio. Code on GitHub is good. Start working on projects, either your own, or someone else's, so you can say you were part of things.

I'm not just talking out of my arse. I still remember getting that first job, and showing them that I had done things was a HUGE part of that.

I've also been in on interviews for dozens of candidates, and the ones that showed code were always much more likely to impress us. Without code, we had to guess how much you understood, and how much you were bluffing. Code doesn't lie.
I guess my point is this:

> Naihanchi does not in any shape or form prepare one for any sort of fighting

What makes you so sure? I don't think karate is like the Karate Kid movies, where you spend all morning painting the fence and all afternoon doing some ridiculous-looking kata, and then end up applying those moves exactly in a fight.

But I do submit that these kata are designed to teach precisely the kind of movements one would apply in a fight.

I have not ever actually been in a streetfight, and I confess my argument smells a little bit like "I've been doing this ten years, I refuse to believe that I've been wasting my time". Still -- are you prepared to argue that kata training definitely does not teach one fighting skills? Seems like that's an extremely difficult point to argue.
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I thing he refers to Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing
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So what? if it's true and good for developpers shouldn't he be the one drumming this stuff up?
>Second, that doesn't change the social contract we have with people who have spent their entire lives paying out up to $6000 a year in wages to the fund.

A good reason not to trust the government to keep a forced retirement account on your behalf. Someone is going to get the short end of the stick here eventually.

I would prefer that people own up to this and we set up an orderly, phased dismantling of the program, but that doesn't seem very likely. Politicians and head-in-the-sand populace apparently insist on a single disastrous collapse that leaves millions insolvent rather than admitting and accepting that there will be some controlled loss involved in a phaseout.
Interesting, maybe I misunderstood. I've had the horrible experience of trying to use a phone with a European carrier and finding that not only was it SIM-locked, but there was basically nothing above-board that I could do to unlock it. I guess I assumed this was a standard practice.

If Google's phones are not SIM-locked, that's great :)

My main remaining gripe is that if I can save on the price of a phone by entering a contract with a carrier, I want to also be able to go the other way: get more favorable contract terms if I already have a phone. Or get month-to-month service at a reasonable price without the need for any contract at all.

To the extent that these options are not available, the market for mobile internet service is not as open and efficient as it really ought to be.
Thank you for bringing up the cotton gin, etc. I was thinking that when I read the article.
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Social Security has very well defined costs that are manageable if you implement some reforms.

Medicare is a another story altogether. Fact is, a 1960-style PPO for every old person just isn't sustainable when health costs rise like 13% per year.
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I moved my own site to Jekyll recently. With modern javascript techniques a "static" site can still be pretty interactive without any dependencies on fragile software plumbing. It's also really fast.
My grades could not be any higher and I think grades are incredibly lame. I wish I went to Rice. I will unschool my children.

I never told my teachers this because I wouldn't want them to lower my marks. An important component of getting high grades is to convince the teacher that you like them and that you're enthusiastic about the material. Have you ever stopped to consider that all those bright and shiny kids who love your class are just putting on a show to get what they need from you?
You can't really compare Celery with beanstalkd or gearman. In fact, Celery supports beanstalk as a transport, and adding gearman support would be simple. You could rather compare celery with the Python clients for these services.

Also, the default configuration is good enough in most cases.
The problem is that market performance is never pure, and even when it is, the performance can be so volatile that side-effects permanently harm communities and subsequently offset the market performance.

And of course performance isn't everything. The 1-person committee in charge of driving a tractor trailer, for example, will deliberately choose sub-optimal performance when driving down a steep grade, because optimal short-term performance would result in a crash and complete long-term failure.
I'm assuming there is no revenue...

Just let it sit for a year doing nothing. The Delaware franchise taxes are minimal - much less than the fees and headaches you'll experience shutting down and restarting a company. I'm not aware of any "hibernate" option.
Being "scared" is never the right thing to do. Just do your best and realize that things might not always go according to plan. Also, there are a whole lot of places other than SV.
You'll also like this little bit I yanked from my .inputrc:

# By default up/down are bound to previous-history and next-history,
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There's not much about "why," in fact, these are the only sentences that are at all relevant to "why:"

After two years of iteration, the code has become difficult to maintain. No one on our team is an Erlang expert, and we have had trouble debugging downtime and performance problems.

Erlang is historically bad at string processing, and it turns out that string processing is very frequently the limiting factor in networked systems because you have to serialize data every time you want to transfer it. There’s not a lot of documentation online about mochijson’s performance, but switching to Python I knew that simplejson is written in C, and performs roughly 10x better than the default json library.

I was able to provide some important operations in constant time along with other optimizations that were cripplingly slow in the Erlang version.

The [Python] community is extremely active, so many of my questions were already answered on Stack Overflow and in eventlet’s documentation.
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Yes and no. Case law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_law) is one of the most powerful tools to defend yourself in court. Obviously you can't be reporting a judicial decision taken in Iran to sue a group of homosexuals and kill them, but the thing is that you can refer to previous judicial decisions if sued in a court within the European union. In fact in this judicial process the lawyer referred to similar binding precedents in the Netherlands. I'm not quite sure about how the legal system works there in the US but I guess that citing previous sentences of EU's courts can be of certain help when sued for something as ridiculous as this (i'm not 100% certain about this tho).
Source: I'm Spanish and the SGAE (equivalent for the american RIAA in Spain) is always on the newspapers' frontpage for such idiotic things...
Yes, but I think what he was referring to was message acknowledgements, which Redis doesn't have. If a worker reserves a message, and is abruptly killed, then the message is lost.
Prisons are primarily a state-level expense. You don't get sent to federal prison for possession.
Thanks, I'll check it out again. It sounds like it does vary by area... and I tried was 2-3 years ago. I'm in the UP.
1. Let it do some protein folding - do the world some good. folding@home I think the stanford initiative is called.

2. Set up a 'private dropbox'
This is really a symptom of control and hypnosis by media sources and a lack of capacity to reason independently than a direct "If you don't flatter me I'll kill you!" response. Though obviously, flattery has a long and successful history.
I agree that I should get scared enough to prepare and apply. But not so scared that I don't.

But to talk about the value of real code, the impression I get by looking at my friends, almost all big SV companies care about are how fast you can answer the almost cookie-cutter questions which can be culled from a number of forums. I know people had interns at MSR and pretty good publications but were rejected over those who semi-memorized those questions, but had almost nothing else to show off. Shameful process, which is partly the thing that puts me off.

Also to talk about the bluff. How can peer-reviewed research at decent venues be considered bluff. Or if you have contributed something which can be accessed by anyone, is visibly used by many, but is not on Github, how is that a bluff?

Is it only because you (as a recruiter) do not know what concrete contribution you (candidate) had in that specific effort? If that's the only thing, should not the right reference sort that out?
I don't really see this as a problem. The economical downturn is an opportunity to excel. Sure, there are things you can't control like government policy, taxes, etc. But the fact that people across the board will be dealing with more problems means that there are more solutions to be had. Challenge Accepted.
Another important difference thus far unmentioned is that IE is a browser for a single platform, and Microsoft traditionally has not done a good job in creating IE features in a cross-platform way. (I'm thinking of ActiveX specifically here.)

If a feature is led by Chrome, Firefox, or Opera you know that any native platform hooks have been designed thoughtfully to work nicely across at least the 3 major desktop platforms.
History shows that fractional reserve banking is incredibly unstable with that degree of leverage. As soon as there is the slightest hint of fear of bankruptcy, everyone hoards cash, no one can repay loans, and thousands of banks go bankrupt. See for reference every single recession and depression before the creation of the FDIC.

The only reason fractional reserve works now is because there is an FDIC and Federal Reserve who will create new money any time there is excessive demand for people to convert deposits into cash. Fractional reserve only works because of the fiat powers of the government. So my point stands - if you assume the U.S. is using its fiat powers, then the debt is AAA. If you assume the U.S. is not using its fiat powers, then the U.S. should have the debt rating of an over-leveraged, 1929 private bank - ie, extremely low.

Did you just call the entirety of Standard & Poor's, a leading financial firm for over 150 years, extraordinarily ignorant?

Yes I did. And why shouldn't I? Maybe the S&P was glorious a hundred years ago. But the last few years their track record has been dismal. See for reference the entire subprime fiasco.

What basis can you demonstrate that you understand the world and national economies and credit markets better than a few thousand really smart economists?

All I have his my own brain, and my use of reason, logic and evidence. You either buy my arguments or you don't. If you're not willing to use your own reason, and base your views entirely on appeals to authority, then there really is not any point in further discussion.

If you wish to see my arguments laid out in further detail, I do have a blog. Here are some general thoughts on the economy:
http://intellectual-detox.com/assorted-thoughts-on-the-econo...
It's only been nine months since I posted that article, but so far my predictions have been spot on.

Here is a post I wrote about the national debt:
http://intellectual-detox.com/why-the-national-debt-is-non-p...
A standard way of doing type annotations would also make it possible to generate AS3 code with CoffeeScript.
Agreed - the idea of retraining "wrench turning" jobs to be computer programmers is, in my mind, optimistic. Because every startup wants at least a BS in some tech related field (so a 4 year barrier to entry)... in addition to the fact that it takes a lot more than 4 years of school to train someone to be a computer programmer (I think)
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Just to give my 2 cents. Madrid is by far the Spanish city making the biggest effort to provide its inhabitants a nice entrepreneur-friendly environment.

To cite a few:
http://www.startupbootcamp.org/european-cities/#madrid
http://www.seedrocket.com/
http://betabeers.com/
http://blog.tetuanvalley.com/
http://madridemprende.esmadrid.com/
http://wayra.org

And I'm missing a lot of them. The entrepreneurial scene and the agile people over here are making an enormous effort to bring this city as a true startup hub in Europe, and they've accomplished this in 1 year.
Like they say in reddit, IAMA guy sort of involved in this scene, ask me anything. Lol
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The example Ruby code jammed into a narrow column like that doesn't do much do demonstrate how beautiful Ruby code can be.
Perhaps it's not because of technological change per se, but an increasing rate of technological change. There are new jobs, but it is becoming more and more difficult for regular people to learn the skills necessary to fill those positions.
Issuing currency to back the "debt" is not a devaluation. Imagine you hold $100k in treasury bonds. The Federal reserve then prints a bunch of money, buys those bonds from you, and gives you cash. Are you then going to be willing to pay twice as much for a car, twice as much for a loaf of bread, etc? No. Your financial position has not changed. No change in your financial page, no inflation, no devaluation. All buying back debt with currency does is replace one piece of paper backed by the US Gov with another piece of paper backed by the government.

See my post here for a more in depth explanation:
http://intellectual-detox.com/why-the-national-debt-is-non-p...
The thing that's different today is that we've transitioned the economy increasingly to one where we provide services to each other rather than produce wealth.

In discussing potential Medicaid cuts in New York, advocates claim that over 12% of employed people in NYC are in healthcare. I have no idea whether that's true or not, but if so, it has real negative implications.

So its not technology that's the problem, it's the fact that we're going nothing to produce new wealth, and are exporting our wealth overseas via the importing of most manufactured goods.
Right, the only risk of default is political risk. But the S&P's rating is still absurd. The peak of political risk was one week ago. Now the risk of a politically-caused default is much lower than it was one week or one month ago. So they should have cut the rating a few months ago, and raised it after the debt ceiling deal was passed.
that's an interesting observation... maybe it has to do with some sort of convergence or tipping point? pretty much like "why we didnt go into space until the mid 20th century" .... once technologies evolved and pieces of the puzzle came together - it happened!
I like the idea, but is anyone else worried about the user interface? I don't like the thought of any site I happen to drive by registering their ability to handle intents. When it does become time for me to edit a photo, I don't want 50 choices popping up, nearly none of which I remember. And, it seems rife with phishing opportunities.

I'm not sure what the answer is here. I also don't want to be asked every time a site wants to register an intent. If you just make it opt-in, it seems like most users will simply miss the opportunity to do so.
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Computer chess improved regularly for decades before becoming a true threat to master players. Why did it start toppling them in the 90s when it hadn't before? More recently, financial programs have carved out a huge niche of the market that was once dominated by human traders.

Why now? Because the technology is finally competitive with humans across a wide range of tasks. Yes newer, some new jobs opportunities do open up, but they're often jobs that those displaced are simply incapable of doing.
For those of us that don't have the numbers memorized, does anyone know what the actual numbers are for these predictions?

Things really heated up mid year. Yahoo proposed a $1 billion flat out acquisition price based on a model they created where they projected $608 million in Facebook revenue by 2009, growing to $969 million in 2010. By 2015 Yahoo projects that Facebook would generate nearly $1 billion in annual profit. The actual 2006 number appears to be around $50 million in revenue, or nearly $1 million per week.

These revenue projections are based on robust user growth. By 2010, Yahoo assumes Facebook would hit 48 million users, out of a total combined highschool and young adult population of 83 million
I was around in 2001-2002 and again in 2008-2009. I needed visa sponsorship. Yes, there were jobs available, but few where the employer was willing to sponsor a visa. I had many interviews where the employer was jubilant at the end of the interview, and then 2 days later, HR called to tell me that they won't be taking on anyone who requires visa sponsorship. Recruiters told me that I would be immensely valuable once I got my green card.
So, yes, you should be worried. Especially if the market keeps going down.
But there is a ray of hope. The new rules tweaks from the USCIS give people like you a lot of breathing room. You can sponsor your own H1B visa if you build your own startup and have a board that has the ability to hire/fire/manage you. The American Immigration Lawyers' Association (AILA) is still working on understanding the tweaks, and there won't be much clarity until a few visa applications are approved or rejected based on the new rules. So, it will take at least 2 months to get clarity. Start looking for jobs through your professional network (build one if you don't have one), and start looking for a good immigration lawyer. I could actually help with the latter. Online jobs websites are mostly useless until you have a green card.
So maybe one significant difference is that this time, there isn't a new frontier for people in developed countries to immigrate to.
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