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The title is sensational. He's just relinquishing editorial responsibilities and not all writing privileges so he can run a AOL-funded venture capital fund. The question is will he be able to leverage his connections and influence to perform as a capable fund manager?
One of the pitfalls with development and the Android Marketplace.
> not everyone goes for the skill, the finesse, the low-drama, and I think that's ok

The way you say it makes it sound like a veiled insult.
Right now tabs work and click properly. It loads data from our HTTP API and displays it in an ugly way, and trailers do play in a basic way on the Android version.

tl;dr: I'm actively working on it, but I don't want to promise a release date just yet.
Trillions? Even if you were referring to the amount of money made by all American investment banks in the last several years, you'd still be off by a few orders of magnitude.
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If you want your employee to take a pay cut they'd best get rewarded as much as an investor who put in the same amount. Look at the numbers, if you want a dedicated tech genius on call, and loyal, in his market, $700k for four years is very reasonable.

The hypothetical founders want someone to pass up being an employee for $100k/y, and costing the company at least $50k more, to work as a contractor for $50k per year - something that saves the company $400k, more than $200k of which comes out of the employee's pocket. If you think anyone should keep their mouth shut so as to not jinx that deal you need to go back and read the article again. Taking that deal is horrible. Especially because when you show yourself to be dumb enough to take it the company will really start treating you like crap.

At that, how is the founder really worth $500k in your average startup? The idea? I find it a little ridiculous that people who have no clue how to implement their idea think they deserve so much for it. Why wouldn't the key employee be worth as much as that?

For the record, I'm currently turning down a $150k 2y offer. On the face of it it's not too bad ($75k/y) but it has an optional buyout of my stake after two years at that $150k price, so that's the best it could ever get even if the company got huge. And that's instead of a wage, so I'd be doing the work free until, hopefully, it got big. So I'd have been, after all that, making a regular wage for someone doing this sort of work at a regular company, someone who has benefits, decent hours, etc, but I'd have taken all the risk.

Anyways, long story short, I agree with the article. Years ago they'd have had me at "So we'll be valuing your shares at $150K!"
Sorry for replying to myself. I want to mention that not everyone needs the Sistine Chapel, that is there's a lot of room for all skill levels. The guy closer to the other end of the spectrum who knows just enough PHP to hack something together still has a skill that others, who perhaps do not need a Michelangelo, are happy to pay him for. There's nothing wrong with that.

When most of us use the word "good" in this context we mean significantly better than average. I think it comes across as an implication that if one isn't a "good" dev then they're bad but that's not what I intend at all. In fact what many of us mean by "good" is probably closer to "best".
Let's be clear. We are talking about whether one should "take wikipedia serious as a source" (emphasis mine). You invoke "source", too, but I'm unsure if your focus is on how reliably accurate Wikipedia is, or if you really do mean to say what you say.

Even assuming yours is the saner of the two--that your "trustworthy" and "credible" mean to say that Wikipedia is reliably accurate--well, I'll first note that this was not the topic at hand.

Since you've appealed to common opinion twice, can I presume that your own use of Wikipedia is also a typically casual one? That is, that you rarely if ever make a point to verify the claims made in articles by:

i) Cross-checking the cited sources, and/or

ii) Independently verifying things in some other way

If I'm permitted to make that presumption, then for my second point I'll note that unless you've done these things, the statement that Wikipedia is "trustworthy" and "credible" is a vacuous one.

I'll also note that I deliberately made a point of saying who's holding this opinion when I wrote that it's a "weird inference that has been tacked on by uninvolved bystanders following Wikipedia's success, and does not originate from within Wikipedia". There is, I think, a fairly realistic view of Wikipedia within the Wikipedia community, especially from those who were involved early. The "vast majority of the internet and wikipedia users" are not Wikipedia editors.

--

To revisit the point I made in the edit to my initial reply to bugsy, I'll say that there's a reason every page on Wikipedia links to a page that says the following,[1] the formatting of which I can neither accurately reproduce nor adequately convey here:

> WIKIPEDIA MAKES NO GUARANTEE OF VALIDITY

> [...]

> That is not to say that you will not find valuable and accurate information in Wikipedia; much of the time you will. However, Wikipedia cannot guarantee the validity of the information found here.

(emphasized in the original)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:General_disclaimer
Agree,
I don't think StatCounter data can give a good representation of Indian internet population
I like MG, but maybe someone a bit more balanced.
The 30% profit margin University of Phoenix makes is a signal to other investors to enter the field and innovate! This is a feature not a bug of markets. Non-profit just means they are maximizing more opaque measures of success. Of course the accreditation barriers to entry are still quite innovation stifling.

also, I'd be shocked if WGU doesn't come under fire for 'disparate impact', otherwise known as racism at some point.
To avoid paywall, you paste wsj urls into google and click on the result, so that the referrer url is google.com
Why is TechCrunch not discussing Michael Arrington's resignation?
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Hopefully, Hollywoodization of the Silicon Valley will slow down as the Techcrunch hype machine falls apart.
M.G. is a good writer, but do we really need Yet Another Apple Blog?
Love the juxtaposition!

Microsoft BizSpark sponsoring a section highlighting an iPhone app.

:)
Hbo is owned by time warner, a cable company.
This may be a gross oversimplification, but I don't get it: First the government bails out the large banks to the tune of 600 billion (give or take a few billion), 3 years ago. Now they realize that the banks were perpetrating fraud in the first place and decide to spend potentially millions (or maybe even hundreds of millions) along with the precious time of the already over-booked and underfunded federal court system to sue them. All to get some small fraction of the money that they gave to the banks back. And the banks will probably be using money the government gave them (some of that 600 billion had to last until now right?) to pay for their defense. Is this all basically an elaborate money laundering scheme for government lawyers, or just an expensive case of the US government being indian givers?
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Because those "filed" banks didn't die, They merged.

JP Morgan picked up Bear in a fire sale, for a billion. Bear's Office building in NYC was worth more.

Lehman went bankrupt.. but our government (us taxpayers) had to eat the mortgages in order for other banks to buy Lehman's assets. The banks just moved the money from A to B.

BofA picked up Merrill for peanuts.

Wachovia was picked up by Well Fargo. Another fire sale.

And who lost out? Us taxpayers, and the employees. Mostly the back office staff. Most of the traders kept their jobs (and bonuses). And the executies made billions in buyouts, parachutes and stock transactions.
I've written more assembly for the M68HC11 than x86 so I can relate. Indenting it never even crossed my mind.

x86 is an entirely different beast.
I would have assumed that the AOL deal wouldn't allow Arrington to set up a competitor so soon.
Can someone explain to me why they think this is a good idea? The leaked encryption key was known about in certain circles for months. By releasing this massive flood of unredacted data they're giving their opponents huge ammunition given how reckless this looks.
Sidestepping the editorial : The basic problem with NINJA loans was that the historical payment/default characteristics were very encouraging.

When the rating agencies modeled up new asset classes, they naturally gathered as much historical data as possible. For NINJA loans, the historical dataset was pretty small, since banks don't normally lend to such hopeless cases. However, when they did lend, the facts of the particular loan normally went something like : House buyer works for himself as a builder/developer, gets paid in cash, plays golf with the bank manager - and everyone knows that he's good for repayment (even if his tax returns don't show any income).

The major problem with this is that the statistical data did not contain these qualitative factors, and showed only that people with No (declared) Income, No (on-the-books) Job and No (visible) Assets paid back their loans consistently. That became codified into a simple fill-in-the-form application which missed the entire point... And loan brokers went to town, with the loans eventually packaged up and dumped into a pool.

At it's heart, the root cause of the problem is that rating agencies did a horrible job of understanding the risks that were embedded in the different types of loans. And no-one had an incentive to let them in on the 'trick' (and, perhaps, the rating agencies were willfully blind to what was going on). Since the middle-men were only short-term holders of each mortgage, the risk got transferred from modeling spreadsheet to investors in pools who trusted the ratings agencies within months or weeks.

Frankly, the politicians were completely outside the loop, and the regulators trusted that the Rating Agencies were doing a good job. Terrible assumptions.
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Interestingly, that does not seem to work with SSL version of Google.
We're blogging the whole thing live, roughly once per hour while we're awake, and also have a live channel going at:

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Is this paywall for US only? I don't get any paywall for WSJ from India.
Browsers strip Referer if the protocol is HTTP but the referrer's URL was HTTPS, to prevent the information about the resource just being left leak.

If WSJ checks Referer and explicitly allows Google to pass, it won't see it if you're coming from HTTPS.
"Verify credit worthiness" : This is part of the problem. The documentation likely only specifies that the banks had to obtain a recent FICO score. Not do 'real due diligence' on the actual credit worthiness of the borrowers.

And while FICO scores may have been relevant data for historical default analyses, as soon as evening courses in 'Fix your credit score' appeared, the historical data became a completely worthless foundation upon which to base any analysis.

So from a legal standpoint, the banks probably have a decent case to claim that they did what they were contractually obliged to do. From a realistic standpoint, though, they see that it's in the hands of politicians now, and they'll settle rather than become/remain a political football in 2012.
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? you aren't disagreeing with the quote.

just as our sense of what swimming entails is wrongly constrained by our familiarity with specific implementations, beyond "moving about under water", we shouldn't limit "thinking" to mean "activity in a neural network", etc.
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how does racism play into this?
I have several I need help with. I am a part of a team building an open source social search engine framework in python/javascript to compete with the likes of radian6 and socialmention.

Contact me at lance@lrvick.net if interested :-)
* But we relied too much on others' self-assessments.*
Can you explain? Do you mean customer development brings in everyone's biases into the picture and not the truth?

What do you think is a better way to do customer development?
Both the retail & investment side of banks held garbage which is why it harmed them.

There was no "AAA" tranche, all the tranches were garbage. Magnetar Capital used the fallacy of the "A Tranche" to their advantage by selling off most of the CDO to suckers, then buying insurance against the whole thing.

Housing would have only continued to go up so long as people bought houses & people could only buy houses because they were being given loans they could not repay.

This is the first time I've heard that "foreclosure" is rewarding someone. I would agree that if the borrower knowingly falsified their income without influence or misguidance by the bank then they should be held responsible, but often that was not the case. The banks created a culture that lowered it's standards to the lowest levels, then either helped guide people into lying about their financial information, didn't ask about it or never verified it. They also helped promote things like ARMs which were big at the time because the low initial rate made it much easier to fit people into these loans. The banks didn't really check how feasible it would be for the person to pay back the loan once their rate adjusted though.
What is Angelo Mozilo's net worth? Have any of the bankers involved in any of the frauds gone to jail?
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FTA: Those fixed standards enable a world of variation. At Western Governors, students aren’t asked to sit in a class any longer than it takes for them to demonstrate that they have mastered the material. In fact, they aren’t asked to sit in a “class” at all.

This article seems to suggest that at other US universities, you actually have to show up to classes to pass them? Is that actually the case????
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But everyone suing everyone else doesn't help anyone apart from the lawyers. And the fights in Washington are utterly unproductive.

In order for job creation to take place, the USA needs less volatility rather than more : If a business owner has no clear vision of what the future holds, then the prudent thing to do is not to invest...
Time Warner and Time Warner Cable are now two independent companies. So, HBO isn't owned by a cable company, but they owe a major share of their revenues to the cable companies. HBO doesn't offer a stand alone internet service probably because they don't want to upset existing relationships with cable providers.
Good luck passing an in-class final without attending class at least once.
> Can't happen legally until copyright law is modified.

Then someone had better make an illegal application that does all this in a very attractive & easy-to-use way, because that seems to be the only way to get the companies off their asses and in action.
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This is a fantastic idea to leverage Airbnb's market penetration further. I know a lot of people that could use this.

However, the prices are obviously too high. It might have been a good idea to launch this as a pilot (maybe this is the pilot?) for specific sellers and make sure their monthly rents are somewhere in the market range. It will probably stabilize, but right now it's a turn-off to see a shared rooms going for what should be private studio pricing.
Oh really? In 2009 The Fed had brought 1.25 trillion in mortgages. And that was just in 2009.

Research the Federal Open Market Committee or GSE's.

The banks made it coming and going. And still are. I also wanna point out banking isn't the only sector enjoying these golden times. The drug war, terror war, general war, oil, food - all enjoy generous subsides/funding from our government.
LOL! It's not TechCrunch, it's the money.
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All they say is that no matter how much you use you will never have to pay for it (at least that's how I read it). Obviously they can't guarantee that they will be able to offer you an unlimited amount of inbound bandwidth (there is no such thing!). Do note that they make no guarantees about the speed of your inbound connection either.

The same goes for other things, of course. You can't necessarily get unlimited outbound bandwidth and you can't buy an unlimited number of servers from them and so on... Sure, those limits (both quality and availability) aren't stated explicitly, but I still think it's fair to say that "whatever amount of inbound traffic you use we won't charge you for it". In extreme cases they will need to do something, but there are other options. There's a certain value in keeping things simple and flexible.

I do agree, though, that hiding (important) limits is generally not a good thing to do.
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I would agree with that. Expect the bank also lowered the required FICO score.

15 yeas ago you needed at least 610 score with a 15 to 25% deposit to buy a house. In 2006 you need a FICO score of 520 ad no deposit. You didn't even need job.

The banks didn't do their job. They were making fortunes on fees and reselling the loans.

BUT the government didn't do it's job either. The banks didn't exactly hide the fact they were doing this. I mean, every real estate agent knew it. I'm sure the various government agencies did too. But no one cared cause everyone was making money.

Until the house came down. :)
Will the CrunchFund going to be a competitor for YC?
I am intrigued to understand how StatCounter comes up with this graph. Do they have their own toolbars? Do they talk to ISPs? What is the demography of indian surfers who StatCounter have accounted for.

Without these parameters openly discussed this looks shady.
As a side note to this, the Apple TV works very, very well for streaming from your iTunes movie library. I'm in the slow-ish process of converting my entire DVD library over to video files that iTunes likes for this purpose.
Wow, I love the idea; thanks for turning me onto grid beams. I need them!
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I think people tend to forget that the banks were bailed out because if they weren't then the world's financial system would have shriveled up and died -- remember the credit markets had actually ceased to function and as a result no one could borrow money.

Credit markets and the shadow banking system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late-2000s_financial_crisis#Cre...

I haven't seen any credible arguments against bailing out the bank which would have ensured that the financial system didn't completely collapse. Some argue that we should have let the crisis take its own course, let the banks fail and deal with the consequences. But this would have guaranteed a second great depression and the vast majority of the world would have been negatively affected in a very bad way.

Now without congress actually doing anything against the banks there aren't too many options left, but hopefully the banks being sued can keep this issue in the spotlight longer to encourage public rage, so that Congress is actually forced to do something of significance.
Completely agree. But tell that to your elected officials.
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really like your flow of users in http://jig.com from twitter model.
My comments are here &rarr; http://twitter.com/Radar_tty/status/109499865964351488

I would love to hear your comments on these inflows.
There's all the difference in the world between coding outside work hours and working outside work hours.
If they can compete with textured soy protean then they have a viable market with pretty low technical requirements. As they develop texture and structure they could replace fajita and stir fry meats, maybe nuggets. Lots of markets as the product matures.
You can absolutely extend unity apps with Cocoa (Unity basically ends up rendering to a UIView).
About $500 million. Not counting clubs, his planes, cars, houses, etc, etc.

he was fined by the SEC for $65 million and barred from ever being a CEO of a public company.

He is not in jail. Also Countrywide is on the hook for 15 of that 65 million fine. That was part of his agreement with the company. And he didn't have to admit "wrong doing".

The criminal case against him has been dropped. Again, he's not in jail.

And no, no one is in jail AFAIK.
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He could serve up some drama, but one thing most people will agree on, he has always cheered for and egged on startups and the ecosystem. Simply for that, I wish him good luck.
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This must be in response to Rackspace Cloud offering free incoming data due to their forced migration of Slicehost's customers.

Rackspace Cloud has a bit of a different audience to Slicehost's existing customers (I'm one of them).

If I were in Linode's position, I'd be offering migration coupons to existing Slicehost customers as an incentive to move to them instead. It's an opportunity wide open.

The way Slicehost has been communicating with their customers recently regarding the forced migration has been enough incentive. It's almost like Rackspace don't want the business the way they've been conducting themselves.
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We'll let you use a lot for free, until you use too much, at which point we'll either (A) Rate Limit you

They throttle already. I had an app on Linode that required large uploads (around 1MB) but had to move to a different provider because of the throttling. The throttling kicks in during a single upload.

That said I would choose Linode in an instant for different apps that didn't require uploads because my experience with them was excellent and their network appears fast (possibly because of the throttling).
All of the above.

Well #1 for sure. And they'll sell the phone for more where possible, but also play the other side by selling it dirt cheap via the net just to grow, so #2.

And yeah, #4. We're always going to need components and without a pesky OS vendor to demand a cut HW manufacturers will either make more, or simply win through increased volume at the new low prices. I'm sure a lot of us are waiting for the entrenched interests to crumble.

So #3, for sure. As the market opens up, and cheap hardware like this makes everyone a potential android developer, the high-margin players are relegated to the more clueless of their customer base as the rest are enticed away.