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Fair point and something we considered - we wanted to always have a valid account when drawing so that users could be identified when collaborating together, and with only 48 hours to get everything working the quickest way was to slap on Twitter/Facebook authentication.
Google points fingers for companies going on the patent offensive, not bidding up patents for defense (their claimed strategy).

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/when-patents-attack-a...

"They’re doing this by banding together to acquire Novell’s old patents (the “CPTN” group including Microsoft and Apple) and Nortel’s old patents (the “Rockstar” group including Microsoft and Apple), to make sure Google didn’t get them; seeking $15 licensing fees for every Android device; attempting to make it more expensive for phone manufacturers to license Android (which we provide free of charge) than Windows Phone 7; and even suing Barnes & Noble, HTC, Motorola, and Samsung. Patents were meant to encourage innovation, but lately they are being used as a weapon to stop it."
What the author has overlooked is that taxes lower the effective return on all investments. If capital gains generating investment X is better than capital gains generating investment Y when capital gains is taxed at 15%, X will still be better than Y if capital gains is raise to 20% or even to the 39.9% it was in 1976, and so in choosing between X and Y, the rational investor will still choose X.

This certainly might be a true statement, or not, depending on the specific tax policy. Can you tell me exactly what policy Buffett was advocating? Because I couldn't find it.

There are 3 possible arguments here.

Argument 1: I, being rich, should pay more money. I don't think Buffett is saying that, because if he felt that way he would just pay more.

Argument 2: The government needs money. We have it. They should come and take it. I couldn't find any mention of government need. He's not saying that the super rich should pay more because it's needed. He's saying they should pay because it's the right thing to do.

Argument 3: The rules should change so that things are "fairer". If this is his argument, which I think it is, then what, exactly does he want to change? Without knowing that, you can't make heads or tails of whether or not tax policy would effect everybody the same or not. Note that if he's arguing for specific policy, it might be that he personally ends up paying no more, or even less. If this is his thesis, then how much he or his buddies actually end up paying has nothing to do with it. He should describe what exactly would be "fair".

There's no argument here, really. It's just Buffett saying he should pay more of his fair share and some friendly poking at the Republicans. His piece seeks to convey feeling, not make a case and support it (Note the folksy telling of how much experience he has and how rates don't matter.) That't great -- it could still be an awesome article. But it doesn't hold together well to try to take the ideas and go somewhere with them.
I have been a mac/ubuntu user for the last ten years, but Windows 8 is the first time Microsoft has really caught my attention since the xbox came out.
The last sentence was cut off:

"... a monopoly on the engineering talent."
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"Why did he return to Apple?"

Because it was falling apart without him and that's the company he really wanted to run?

Think what you will about Steve Jobs but the idea that he's some hack who's milked an incredible streak of good luck is not going to win many people over.
I mean there are a lot of rational reasons for a startup to be in northern NJ, but the other rising startup areas mentioned in the article (with the exception of Bryn Mawr, I don't know whats up with that) are all places that are cool for young people to move to and have a certain societal status. Telling your friends that you are going to move to Bergen County just isn't the same as saying you are going to Boulder.

A lot of suburban places "make sense," like for instance Nashua, NH is well within commuting distance of Boston/Cambridge and offers lower taxes, rental property, etc. but I doubt the Boston-area startups will move there.

I do agree that it will be the home for corporate campuses (I live in Westchester Co., NY, which has a lot in the way of large companies but not many startups, and is very similar to northern NJ), but that makes a lot of sense. A large company needs WAY more space, has an established revenue stream (so taxes matter way more) and the employees will be way more likely to have a family and therefore be more interested in living in the suburbs.
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We're UpOut. We're a two man operation who previously ran a web design firm from our dorm room at Babson College's E-tower. My name is Martin and my cofounder is this guy named Will.

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and have been building it up ever since with much more to come.

We're looking to bring on 2 to 3 developers or designers to help us grow the company. We're looking for people really wanting to get in on the ground floor so salaries will only be enough to cover expenses. However, we are offering generous amounts of equity and a place to crash in SOMA, San Francisco.

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MMI had $3.1B in cash. Better deal for Google.
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Ah, right on. Yeah that would be amazing.
Did you even read the whole blog post?

"This anti-competitive strategy is also escalating the cost of patents way beyond what they’re really worth. The winning $4.5 billion for Nortel’s patent portfolio was nearly five times larger than the pre-auction estimate of $1 billion. Fortunately, the law frowns on the accumulation of dubious patents for anti-competitive means — which means these deals are likely to draw regulatory scrutiny, and this patent bubble will pop."
Buffett isn't suggesting punitive rates, just rates in line with the income taxes that an average working person pays.
I think the OP argument makes a lot of sense. When I was young, my mother often asked (not exactly gently) to do some tasks and many times I refused just because I was obligated.

In the school and in the college it was exactly the same behavior, I refused to study but when I found an interesting topic outside the college (like programming) I had a lot of will to study it by myself. I never really learned anything in the school class, I am 100% autodidact. The single fact that I was obligated to learn something made me completly ignore that stuff.
Take a look at the source of that page: http://pastie.org/private/tlskiu3wxnwgisqq14sr8a Any tech person could have seen through the bullcrap.
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"When you buy a house and take on a big mortgage debt, you tighten up all your spending and accounting."

No, actually it's the exact opposite, both in the short term, and in the long term.

Short-term vs. existing homeowners: http://www.nahb.org/generic.aspx?sectionID=734&genericCo...

Long-term vs. non home-owners: http://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/publication...

More: http://econ.jhu.edu/people/ccarroll/papers/COS-WealthEffects...

There is a lot more info out there about this, but the economics of it are pretty simple. The fact that the author can't even get this right makes me question any other assertations made in the article.
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This is a great sign for an east coaster born and raised (grew up in Cambridge roaming the streets of Central Square).

I applaud YC's efforts to build an "official" community in NYC, having a number of successful companies to seed this is a great way to transition an informal core group into a sustainable community.

Now YC funded companies have the option after incubating in SV to surround themselves with the same support on the east coast that YC is known for.
I'd rather not rush art. If I want crap to read I can go to a Borders, it's crammed full of every variety of crap at deep discount.
Frankly, I'm often surprised that how much of wall street is still windows based. A year or two ago I spoke to a co-location vendor who told me that most of their customers run their automated trading strategies on windows machines. A friend is currently working with a very popular market data vendor who only provides windows API. Some of their customers use linux, but they are forced to use WINE! The vendor has no plans to provide linux based api, something more portable like java or even straight tcp/ip message specification.
The parameter looks up a closure ("fnid" means "function ID") in a hash/dictionary/whatever. When memory runs low, some (all?) of them get pruned. Hence, links expire.

I don't think it's a good architecture.
so Motorola bluffed young Google CEO into the deal by threatening to sell to MSFT? Looks like there was some value in having Schmidt as the CEO.
I can see how this might silently make Github into one of the best blogging platform on the planet.

I run my blog (pepijndevos.nl) on Github, using its Jekyll feature, so my blog just got a much better online editor with preview functionality.
Even more interesting: Links between acquiring company execs who are limiteds in the venture funds of the VCs who funded the acquiree.

It's a huge undisclosed conflict of interest that screws the shareholders of the acquiring company, so don't expect to see it graphed out anytime soon.
Isn't this what Mendeley does?
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The other critical factor is whether the acquisition is a cash deal or a share based deal, a share arrangement would be very efficient indeed, hard to find meaningful details of the acquisition.
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very nice, it just disappears when you click done.

You may forget about this and wonder why my apps aren't connecting but glad there isn't dock or menu icon!
This was my thought as well, I've never heard of a brute force attempt working in the real world.
That is a different thing. That is a browser function to store your credentials and be able to auto-fill them later. Opera does it nicely by displaying a bar on top of the screen after you submitted. So you can actually see if you logged in and then decide to store and not to store.

This submission is about server-side (cookies or likewise) though.
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That doesn't seem correct. For the second case, where the mine contains $220M in deposits, shouldn't it be:

-$100M cost to build mine
+$220M revenue from sale of deposits
------------------------------------
$110M profit

That leaves you with $220M from the sale of deposits less $55 million for the 50% tax on the $110M profit, so you end up with $165 million.

So, starting with $100M to invest, half the time you end up with $0, half the time you end up with $165M, giving an average outcome of $82.5M, for an average return of -17.5%.

Without a tax, half the time you end up with $0, and half the time you end up with $220M, so the average outcome is $110M, for an average return of 10%.
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"And since we have no intention of selling 37signals or going public"

It seems to me to be unfair to create incentives like this without intending on ever paying them out. I'm glad that they are creating this now instead of if and or when they are acquired, but I still think equity grants are a more fair way of handling incentives.
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Heh, you probably didn't intend it that way, but this is totally a "When did you stop beating your wife?" style question.

And yeah, they publish all the GPL-derivatives like the underlying kernel, but not the stuff that makes Android Android.
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Have you got any links/pointers as to why they switched? I remember their use of canvas being a strategic design choice early on (with IIRC, a list of reasons why just using the DOM wouldn't work so well)
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Or you could just launch. This technical debt thing has to be the silliest meme ever.

I mean yes, presumably since I haven't saved enough for retirement yet, I have "retirement debt". As long as you live, you always have some kind of debt because you could use your future time to earn more money (or create cleaner code or whatever). So I suppose you owe yourself your future self.

It is debt in the widest sense - but not a useful concept. Obviously you have to do in the future what you can't do today.

Technical debt is merely a chimera created by consultants who want to justify their high costs.

Another illustration: if I build a tent to spend the night, have I accrued technical debt because I owe myself a proper house? shakes head
I don't think it sounds awkward or robotic but rather carefully thought out. If you release a longer statement, with many varied points, journalists can cherry-pick which statement they wish to draw attention to. In this age of out-of-context soundbytes, to keep maximum control over the message, the statements you release must be as short as possible.

Choose your most important point and release that only, as simply as you are able to state it.
This is one of the reasons we don't formally discuss or disclose this plan when hiring people. It's not pitched as an incentive to work at 37signals. It's a bonus, purely a bonus, if/when something very unlikely happens. We do not factor this in to the overall compensation package when making people offers or giving people raises.
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Thanks! I think this is a great approach. Let me see what I can find!
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Where does fair enter into this, exactly? The employees are paid for their work, and this isn't dangled over them to try and lower salaries.

This is more like the founders making provisions to guarantee a gift to current employees in the event of a sudden windfall. Maybe even a form of severance pay in case an acquiring company starts laying people off.

I think it's a pretty pointless program, but I don't see anything unfair about it.
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Three hours? That's nothing for Canadian interrogations.

Here's a 2008 case (from the highest court in a major Canadian province) I found pretty quickly that's about a four and a half hour interrogation where the police lie about having DNA evidence that pins the crime on the person: http://canlii.org/eliisa/highlight.do?text=%22The+interview+...

Here's a 2000 Supreme Court of Canada case about an approximately eight hour interrogation (at which point the guy confessed): http://www.canlii.org/en/ca/scc/doc/2000/2000scc38/2000scc38.... There are plenty more of these. There's no hard and fast limit to how long Canadian police can interrogate you for.
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It may have been better then being out bought once again.
Fantastic news. I've been excited about Illumos for a long time, and now we're finally getting a decent distro with commercial backing. My servers will be very happy when they hear about this.
So the images Apple supplied to German courts showed the Samsung hardware altered in the following ways: 1. Aspect ratio changed to be identical to iPad. 2. Samsung logo removed.

Also, they show the app drawer screen instead of the default home screen.

Samsung wasn't allowed to see any of this evidence before the court gave the injunction.

Is it even possible that this wasn't deliberate, willful deception on the part of Apple lawyers?
Seriously.

Google culturally is very pro-Java, and decided to bring that to their new mobile platform, without the legacy baggage of J2ME. It was an engineering decision as much as it was against licensing Sun IP, maybe in light of how poorly J2ME ever did as a development platform.

Android was in development since 2005 and the major post-iPhone change that happened was a larger screen and virtual keyboard, which is what every modern phone has.

There are companies which have blazed trails and Google has not blazed many with its products; but they bring something equally as important to customers as innovation: competition and choice.
esr has foreseen this: "This morning came the news that Google has agreed to buy Motorola Mobile for $12 billion. I was half-asleep when A&D regular Jay Maynard phoned me with a heads-up, but not surprised for a second; as I told him, I’ve been expecting this for weeks."

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3597

Apparently what counts are the patents:

"make no mistake: this purchase is all about Motorola’s patent portfolio. This is Google telling Apple and Microsoft and Oracle 'You want to play silly-buggers with junk patents? Bring it on; we’ll countersue you into oblivion.'"

esr envisions a rosy future for Android: "now that Google has shown it’s willing to fly cover for Android handset and tablet makers, likely there’ll be more of them signing on. This move will accelerate Android hardware down the price curve."
> Just fork a project to your account on github, edit in Ace, and then making a pull request when you are done.

Github's edit feature does all that: if you're trying to edit a file in a third party's project, it creates a fork and opens the file for editing, and creates a pull request when you commit your edit.

> If not, is Ace just going to be for minor edits, etc?

Well yeah, since you can't really test the code (for now at least, maybe they'll build some sort of testrunner via VMs later on) it's not like you can perform significant code editions with it. But for docfixes, typos or minor stuff it's very handy.
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Well, you can't run tests on code you edit this way; I'd say its intended usage is just minor edits such as typoes.
I've never once read a register article and felt enlightened -- I've mentally compartmentalized them as a place to ignore.

Did I get the wrong impression, and they can in fact be a useful source of new & commentary?
That argument is fundamentally silly for all the reasons identified long ago by Lysander Spooner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysander_Spooner ) in _No Treason: the Constitution of No Authority_ ( http://lysanderspooner.org/node/44 ).

wikipedia quote: "Spooner bolstered his argument by noting that the federal government, as established by a legal contract, could not legally bind all persons living in the nation since none had ever signed their names or given their consent to it - that consent had always been assumed, which fails one of the most basic burdens of proof for a valid contract in the courtroom."

Adding "and the laws" is problematic because "the laws" are vague, unknowable, constantly changing and in fair part contradictory with one another and with the constitution.

The argument that the government contract even could work this way pretty much assumes what needs proving: that the government "owns" the country and all the land and people in it. If the government doesn't automatically own your land and your kids, it can't be assumed that you've contracted with the government by virtue of buying a house or being born. But if the government does own your land and your kids, no social contract is needed - your allegiance is already mandated without it.
It does matter. There is a concept that there are major releases and minor releases. Major releases mostly introduce features, minor releases fix bugs and other annoyances.

By making version number a simple integer, you lose the information whenever there were some major changes or not.
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But it demo'd so well!
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(from a different source)

"Becky: OK, there were a couple of emails that came in that people that said if you think the government should be able to tax more money, why don't you just give your money to the government instead of charity?

Buffett: Well, that's a choice and it's an option that... If I had to give it to a single individual - make some young Buffett a multi-billionaire - or give it to the government, I'd absolutely give it to the government. I think that on balance the Gates Foundation, my daughter's foundation, my two sons' foundations, will do a better job with lower administrative costs and better selection of beneficiaries than the government."

So, Buffett and his children should have the option of deciding how their money is best spent, but other "individuals" should not?
What he's calling "a mess" certainly is debt.

In money, debt is debt, whether you acquired it by taking out a responsible mortgage or running up your credit card on bottles of Dom Perignon to impress your friends. In software, technical debt is technical debt whether it was wise or not. The point is, you're paying for it when you try to do other work on the project (interest) and it's gonna take time to fix (principle).

Saying "A mess is not technical debt" is silly. The metaphor is useful whether it was a good idea to get into debt or not.

Edit: s/Don/Dom/ -- thanks for the pointer!
Wow, really? Which parts, exactly?

I'm genuinely curious, as someone who's been a Windows user for basically his entire computing life.
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Agreed. I use Little Snitch currently. I wanted to give this a try but.... I won't buy an application up front. I understand the Dev will refund instantly as stated in comments but it doesn't persuade me. I would even prefer a 15 day trial with a no commitment download. The only way to turn me off faster is to only distribute via the App store.
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The "remember me" checkboxes don't store login information, they just setup a permanent cookie rather than a session cookie (so the cookie — and login — survives restarts).

Remembering credentials is a feature of the browser, some will let the page load through (letting you check that the credentials are correct) while others (safari does that I believe, and it's extremely annoying) block the whole UI and force you to hope you didn't make a typo, or they're going to store the wrong one (though they'll ask again when you enter the right one, and will replace the incorrect one. Still annoying)
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That's just not the way a LOT of software works these days. For example, what version is facebook on? Do you know? Does it matter? What version is gmail on?

Chrome users only know what version they're on if they go and look at "about" but features are added all the time. You can't even find the chrome version number on their website--at least, I couldn't.

Linux changed to version 3.0 for no discernible reason. Emacs jumped from version 1 to version 13; versions 2 through 12 just didn't exist at all. Did it matter? No. It's just a number.