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Are you talking about cold boots, or resumes from sleep/hibernate?
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Depends what you're doing, but the #1 cost in some startups is the paychecks (check this for example : http://dl.dropbox.com/u/345057/DIASPORA%207312011%20Profit%2...) . If you find a way to survive while coding, you don't need to raise much money (that's what me and my roomate have been doing for 1 year+)

God only knows what we would have done with 200000$ extra :)
Your homework is to go to the office of a company of more than 10,000 employees at the start of the work day, turn on your computer along with everybody else, and sit there doing nothing until you manage to pull up a browser and hit a web site of your choice and can actually manipulate it.

My father's laptop, larded with the corporate, err, "value add software", once took five minutes to pass that gauntlet, without even any local network activity. You do want to make sure you can pull open the browser and do a bit of real work, though; the desktop appeared in about a minute, but you couldn't actually do anything. With the Maverick release of Ubuntu, the same test could be passed in 45 seconds. (Still not what I'd call speedy, I just include that for reference. Yes, it's a laptop and the hard drive hurts, but the hardware wasn't that bad. Also, this was XP, which I know from experience on that hardware should have taken roughly 45 seconds too.)

You might understand why it's a bit of a sore point with many people whose wallets Microsoft is listening to after that experience.

(It appeared to me, based on the process list and the way the machine was performing, that the simultaneous presence of backup software trying to scan every file access and virus scanning software trying to scan every file access, and for all I know trying to each perform other real scans of the disk, was causing major disk thrash, which combined with the fact the virus scanner insisted on scanning various files before the OS could execute them caused major, major slowdown. I'd never put up with this on my machine, but somehow I suspect this is not an uncommon case in the corporate world...)
One of the issues I've seen with startups that do this is that they end up being consumed by the consulting work and aren't really able to crunch on their own thing. Whether it's demanding clients or the cash, your attention gets sucked away from your startup...I've seen people go years without releasing their own stuff when that was their intention from the very beginning, just got caught up in consulting.

But I am very much pro-bootstrapping - save your money while consulting or while working the corporate gig, get your health insurance in line, figure out a method of monetization that starts a good six months before your savings dry up, then quit all outside pursuits completely to focus on your startup.
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I got really sick of all the different crappy ways to get data into SalesForce. I really can just drag and drop from a toolbox. Point to files, do joins, mapping, and eve custom code. When I'm done I enter my password for SalesForce and push the run button.

It is a bit buggy though, I just slapped together some code I had and some code I found around the net. But, the screen shots are real, and even my buggy solution works way better than anything out there.
If you right click in Chrome for 'inspect element' you also get disappearing source code.
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Try codecademy.com; they've taken the pain out of learning introductory programming.
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I'm interested in if it's a misconception that most geeks use Gmail. Almost everyone I know in the startup world does but this is less the case with other friends.
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Twitter needs to make money or it will just go away.

How is showing sponsored tweets the same as "throwing your userbase in the shitter"? Your sense of entitlement is as disgusting as your scatological language.

Don't like it? vote with your feet.
You, sir, are a linchpin. If all teachers had your passion, what a future we'd have. Keep it up.
Another great point hidden in there is the sleep+hibernate feature in which when sleeping, if power is lost the system's state is not. You would simply boot from hybernation from the sleep point.
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Thanks, I have given that a spin. I follow along, but still struggle with understanding the "why" and really grasping the concepts. I need someone to answer my questions as I'm doing the exercises.
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I know they were profitable (heard from Twitter employees during lunch) in very late 2009 right after Bing and Google decided to pay them tens of millions of dollars each month for access to realtime Tweet data. They only had ~150 or so employees at the time.

No idea if they're still profitable, and the Google deal has since been canceled.
Windows sleeps too, ya know, just the same. Waking is near instant, all you're doing is turning hardware devices back on.
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Ask yourself how much money your startup could eventually be sold for. $5 Million? $10 Million?

Now divide that by the number of years, divided by 2000. For a $10M exit, working on the startup for 5 years, that works out to $1000 per hour.

If you really think your startup can be sold for $10M or more within 5 years then you should think twice before taking on any contract work for less than $1000 per hour.
>>> Qualitatively, people say they prefer to shut down because they want to have their PC completely “off” so that it uses no power – either to preserve battery life or to reduce their energy use. Hibernate is also a good option for this since it similarly has no power draw, and many people really like it. However, it’s clearly not for everyone, since one of the other things we’ve heard is that many people want to turn their PCs on and have it be a “fresh start” rather than running all of the stuff from their previous session.

Really so? It is not that people want to "start fresh", it is because the boot times from hibernate have been pathetic.

Now I am on a MacBook and I never almost shutdown, just sleep. Yes sleep consumes power, but what I mean is that I would not want to "start fresh" each time. No way.

How many people here want to "fresh start" at each boot?
Right, that start up time is not Windows starting, its the bullshit software. Meaning that even if Windows 8 boots a bit faster, that same bloatware is still going to make it slow...
As long as the ads are formatted differently or labeled, I am fine with it. I am easily distracted. I don't spend too much time reading tweets and I wouldn't want a tweet suddenly making me think about context when I don't want it to.
>How many people here want to "fresh start" at each boot?

For Windows? I only restart because I need a fresh start.
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You can choose which features you use. For instance, I've never used the single sign on/access token functionality. The reset password, account lockouts, etc. are awesome.
they pay taxes, but the rate might be lower for commercial diesel like it is for farm use.
I think the difference between capturing values at call time and full closures only matters if you are mutating variables, which my closures rarely do, since my code is fairly functional'ish, so for me it does not matter.
the project had such a high profile that they could have got all of this stuff for free from companies. they just had to ask
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I completely agree with needing a fresh start. I do not know why others would need it on Windows. But I do that so that the PC lags a little less. Windows, I feel from daily use, gets slower the more you keep it open.

I do not use Windows in recent times, either Ubuntu or Mac. But still want to see a better Windows 8 so I can use that too.
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So basically, it's bus width vs. clock rate. Although it looks like there is a natural upper bound on throughput.

One thing the article doesn't mention but the paper goes into is the syllabic complexity. Vietnamese and Chinese both have a ridiculous amount of tones (from a Western perspective).
From the paper:

Language Syllable Set Weighted Syllabic Complexity
English 7,931 2.48
French 5,646 2.21
German 4,207 2.68
Italian 2,719 2.30
Japanese 416 1.93
Mandarin 1,191 3.58
Spanish 1,593 2.4

English gets the density from a huge syllable set and an average syllabic complexity. Mandarin has a fairly small set but high complexity.

From my experience with Japanese, it seems like it has evolved to compensate for the low density:

A lot of the pronouns (I/he/she) tend to be dropped and assumed from context

Some verb forms take the place of longer phrases: taberu koto ga dekimasu->taberaremasu

In spoken/casual usage, many phrases are shortened: oiteoite -> oitoite, my personal favorites are the arigato gozaimasu-> mumble-zaimasu or the irrashaimase->mumble-mase
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You'd have to show that you were engaged actively and continuously in working on the invention to maintain the ability to sue, and ultimately you'd have to show that you were entitled to receive the same patent that the other inventor filed for (in other words, that you actually invented the same thing). There is also the fact that it's often years from when a patent issues to when it becomes cash-flow-positive.

So, at the end of the day, if you're paying all of these scientists to invent, you'd do better to just file for patents on what they're inventing and license those out.
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Not quite pure coding but I have certainly started dabbling with automator on my Mac. My favorite one so far is the special folder I setup on my desktop that automatically prints anything that gets dragged into it. This becomes very useful when you have more than one attachment to an email.

I would also recommend Hazel, which will automatically do some folder cleanup/maintenance for you based on a series of rules you setup.

Finally I use TextExpander religiously to never have to type the same email again.
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They have a single customer and single source of revenue, Amazon.com. It's pretty ridiculous.
been doing it for $0 salary for years now
Too bad drop.io is gone. It was dead simple to use and fulfilled all my needs. :-(
Machine off, cold start to login screen: 6.7s
At desktop clicking restart to login screen: 5.9s.
Wake from sleep to login screen: 3.2s
Lift lid to login screen: 2.8s.

Those are single run YMMV, etc.
It's a real shame that teachers are not being compensated better.

I'm not in the habit of confronting people, teachers least of all. I don't think it's productive most of the time. My point was simply about priorities. My son is a gorgeous, brilliant, quick-witted, hard-headed and strong-willed story-teller, liar, teller of jokes and fan of Pokemon. He's 4 years old. I love him more than myself, and I will do what I can to make his childhood fantastic. That imperative eclipses any concerns about the authority and sentiments of the education professionals in whose case I entrust him.
I thought sendoid.com is the solution, but for some reason it no longer works for me.
Except sudo remembers that you entered your password < N minutes ago instead of asking every time.
Twitter is cable tv for me. I get some national news, a lot of stuff I don't like and a little that I do from about 100 sources. I don't think I'll mind ads.
Ha... it's about time we came up with a word and a definition for this type of journalism... Go..
Does Bing still pay for access to the data?
Generally I think the way out of this mess it to start to publish every little invention (however obvious it might seem). Then hopefully over time there will be no more room for obvious patents.

There's actually an industry that does exactly that. You can pay a small fee to insert pretty much anything you want into a compendium that gets published periodically and put on file with the Library of Congress. And, big tech companies used to have their own disclosure journals for this purpose -- Xerox Disclosure Journal and IBM Technical Disclosure Journal come to mind.
What I would like to see is an ultra-high level programming web-focused language used mainly for prototyping and MVPing. Something where all the grubby details like authentication, form creation, routing, etc. And I mean, get a working application up and running, ready for users, that looks and works really well in a matter of hours.
Earlier today they just claimed to have 100 monthly actives. http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2011/09/08/twitter-100m-users-...
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You are like sooo ready for an IT job :-) I used to joke that good IT people fix problems, great IT people create problems and then fix them.
Agreed that focus is critically important to an early stage startup. However, raising money can sometimes take 3-6 months (longer in some cases) and that can distract the team just as much. I know startups that have died from spending too much time on fundraising and not enough on product.

If you could spend a month on a short-term contracting gig and bring in the equivalent of a small angel round, wouldn't that be a worthwhile option?
None of this matters unless they can stop Dell from installing Roxio DVD LaserScribe that run on startup.
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Except you can bet on getting about 24 hours of sleep time on a Windows machine (my HP laptop lasted a little over 24 hours on a full charge) compared to the ~4 weeks of standby you get on a MacBook.
Another one bites the dust, and another ones gone, another one gone...
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Basically just as the title says. Just looking for some feedback on the best way to set myself up for freelance. While having a brand would be nice, it may be a little strange operating under a brand with just one person in it.

Thoughts??
If I'm advertising a Ruby job and looking for skills with Ruby-specific tools, there may be a great Python programmer that could switch over but who doesn't apply

Solution: don't advertise 'a Ruby job'. Advertise 'a programming job'. What it is you really want in your applicant?
I disagree with your reading of the bill, and with your interpretation of the current law. The one year grace period to file -ONLY- applies for the inventor who is filing the patent, or if the disclosure happens from a related party to the inventor. If a third party discloses the information before you file, then you can't receive a patent over and above that prior art.
If the old tree sequestered carbon at the same rate as the new tree, replacing it doesn't accomplish anything. You'd have to focus on chopping down the least efficient trees.

Actually I don't know whether trees are optimal. Something like kudzu might have higher carbon/arable land throughput, alarming as that prospect might be.
Here's a flashback to a similar post in 2008 about the fundamentals work done for Windows 7 boot performance:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/e7/archive/2008/08/29/boot-performan...
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>It is _exactly_ the same. The battlefield is over the opinions held in people's hearts and minds. Once a viewpoint owns a man, it doesn't matter whether that purchase was made with cash, with returned loyalty........

hear hear! Much appreciated
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and incubators usually are full of shit, they want you to do what they want in the way that they want.
Same numbers here on my macbook pro. Another important stat is that when our laptops wake up, we re-establish wifi connections in ~100 ms, compared to the average of 10 seconds on PCs.
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This is hilarious, gotta be the most inefficient way to access the web.
That's pretty great- wish I had an android to try it!

I can't help but wonder what kind of speed you actually get through that- would it be sufficient for day-to-day use, or just enough for a few patient page loads now and then?
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Good point.

It's fun to do the popular comparison of Twitter vs. Facebook as well.

It's interesting to note that in terms of revenue, Facebook is pulling in around $5/user/year right now. But their valuation per user is around $114-$143 (currently $80-100 billion).

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2969934

FB claims 700+million users, with 600million active.

Twitter claims 175million users but going by your metrics a much lower percentage are active.[1]

Given these numbers and a common metric of valuation over 5 years (and the assumption of no more user growth...I know it's not realistic but it makes the math easy), FB has to figure out how to multiply $25/user (over 5 years) by 4 to 6.

Twitter has a much steeper hill to climb to justify their valuation. Not only do they have less information about a user (so targeting advertising is harder), but FB has other methods of revenuing a user, online apps, games, etc. Twitter hasn't even proposed a revenue model outside of limited, randomly sampled, access to global tweet streams (which are likely not a major revenue driver in anybody's business plan) and recently announced paid forced tweets just showing up in people's streams (which I'm sure will go over well sarcasm).

To make matters worse, their experience doesn't really require people to come to their website. And it appears most activity is not via the site, so embedded adverts are going to be very hard.[2]

I can't figure out the math on this to be honest. Hell, I can't figure out the math on FB, but they look positively reasonable compared to Twitter.

[1] this article http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-how-many-use... uses follows as a metric for "active" but arrives at ballpark similar numbers.

[2] a little old but http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/04/15/twitter-reveals-7...
If I buy something, and the vendor screws up, if they give me a bunch of excuses, I am more likely to think they'll screw up again. If the vendor takes personal responsibility, there is less chance that they'll make the same mistake again.
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Dale Carlson's article in the The National Law Journal makes some good points
http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202513148515&...

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Notifo always seemed like a perfect acquisition for a number of the services it integrated with. I would have imagined Twitter snapping it up well before Bagcheck – it's a real shame no one ever bit.

Chad obviously knows his stuff, though. I'd imagine he's learned an enormous amount from the experience, and I'm looking forward to seeing where he goes next.
It's definitely not fast, but it's not quite as bad as you might think. While I was testing it, the whole pipeline, from pressing the "go" button to the page being fully rendered could take as little as 15 seconds.

Granted I'm just releasing this now, so if it gets any users at all we'll see how my cheap VPS holds up...
It's not rational to turn my PC off?

Why would I want my home PC turned on at 3AM, exactly?
Boot/sleep/hibernate performance will be one of the features that makes or breaks Windows 8. It's all about the tablets and laptops. A laptop and - more importantly - a tablet needs instant on/off like an iPad or a smartphone. That means ultra low power consumption during sleep and fast task resumption when I turn it on.
I will buy Windows 8 for these improved boot/hibernation times alone. It's painful to watch my computer wake up from hibernation in 15 to 30 seconds. (That's with SSD)
Just from the information available in the time article, and from a tiny bit of thinking, I presume there are 2 things going on here:

First the article claims that 1 is set arbitrarily to Vietnamese for the value of information density. There are many common ways to normalize measurements, it is obviously not 1/SPSvietnamese for this case. There are most likely other considered factors in the information density calculation (whose unit we don't actually know btw... but it is presented as a ratio otherwise they wouldn't normalize to 1), or they could just be doing some other statistical funging.

Second: With a little bit of thinking you could realize that you aren't getting a good scientifically sound write-up from the Time article -- mostly because this is how they present things (consumable for the masses!). The article writer could be picking completely arbitrary measures as important for people to puzzle over and say "Wow!" at and ignoring the real results. It has happened countless times in the past and will continue to do so for the forseeable future.

Basically what I am saying: if you want to do the incredulous thing, please put some thought in first.
One of these days, the network providers are going to stop putting arbitrary labels on their data, as though "voice", "text" and "data" are not all travelling through the same towers and pipes.
Not sufficient for day-to-day use, probably between 15 seconds and a minute to get a page. But if you don't have a data plan, it's possibly better than nothing...
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Thanks for the work - I loved notifo and have it hooked up through Growl to ping me when important things happen. It pains me to need to search for a replacement when it worked so well, but after all, nothing is permanent. Good luck with your future endeavours.
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That's just completely faulty logic for so many reasons:

a) Future value is not equal to current value.

b) $10M exit in the future is not set in stone. It'll take longer and be more painful than you think it will be. The chances that you'll have a $10M exit are low. You're doing well if you're pocketing $1M.

c) People won't fund you for free. You're giving up a chunk of your company. At 20% of $10M, that's $2M you're giving up. If you're getting more capital, you can expect to give up more.

d) Having full control and agility is more important than most people realize unless you have some really smart entrepreneurs who are your investors guiding you.
Do you use compression at all or is it straight uncompressed HTTP via SMS? Or something else entirely? This is wonderful for it's creative (mis)use of texting...