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Thanks for the feedback marcamillion!

The wording on the last page of the wizard is old and should be changed. We are focused on accepting talented startup teams and knowing a team went through an incubator program does help vet them. We're not only accepting startups who are funded by an incubator program.

Our target market startup is one who was a finalist in a distinguished incubator program (top 50 or so). They've built a good product as a team, didn't quite make it in, but now need some bootstrapping cash to keep them going before raising a round of funding (if they choose to do so).

Oh, and our vision of the product is to allow team building within the site. A project is posted and they want 2 developers and 1 designer. If you're a developer, you could fill a developer slot and invite another dev/designer in your network or have us recommend one.
Conflating "America" with "the US Government" plays into the simplistic arguments of those that try to paint their enemies as "hating our freedom" when they simply take issue with having their families murdered.
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The small volume is a good reason most simulation software takes the high price licensing. That isn't the only route though. You could look into the "leverage open source, sell training/consulting/more usable packages" approach as done by companies like enthought (they work on scipy, and sell courses/etc).

I'm a big fan of the enthought approach, my biggest gripe about the matlab/mathematica approach is that I usually couldn't package/optimize/distribute my code. The exception to that is labview, but they're more hardware-centric.

In the semiconductor industry, I have watched another german company called plexim start in the past few years offering cross-platform mixed-signal tools. The other competitors seem pretty small and usually pursue turn-key consulting agreements instead of licensing underlying libraries so the end customer can make a more integrated experience.

Cliff Notes: perhaps see if you can find a market to sell distributable easy scientific APIs for you end customers so they can prototype/package/distribute things without too many headaches.
Nevermind the dozen easier ways to get a gun without a background check... When will people realize bad people that want a gun, figure out how to get one. All the ridiculous waiting periods and background checks just hassle law abiding citizens.
"I do want to keep using it but have no idea what's the point."

Pretty much.

Twitter covers my need to follow people not within my immediate network.

And 99% of my friends primarily post on Facebook.
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Java has, perhaps, the largest talent pool of developers available of any 'Enterprisey' language. If it isn't Java, I'm sure it's some flavor of .Net.

The point wasn't that Java = easy, so let's use Java, rather, that the entire mindset of the Enterprise is that THEY don't understand the craft at all. They believe they can swap out developers as easily as they can swap out help desk workers (which also seems easy in theory, but isn't in practice -- a great help desk tech is worth their weight in gold.)

As their intent is to reduce IT workers to a commodity, I would also venture that it's harder to hire the truly talented (more often than not.) The focus isn't on technical excellence, it's on baseline competence, ability to follow SDLC workflows and, basically, to develop consistent amounts of code so that scheduling is as repeatable a process as possible.

There are exceptions to everything, of course, but I'm speaking from my experience working in and consulting for Fortune 50 companies and Federal Government, where the behavior I described is possibly more prevalent than somewhere like Cisco or EMC (read: technology companies), but I stand behind the position as more the rule and less the exception.
I'm told that at least one vendor will be providing some systems that don't allow you to disable the requirement.
I had a SGI 1600SW LCD and a Sony FW900 CRT on my desk in 1998. That was a bitchin' desktop setup back then. The SGI required this special graphics card from Number Nine, which ended up going bankrupt, thus ending driver availability. Even by today's standards, the quality of the SGI display was outstanding.

Still, one of the most expenses displays I've seen belonged to a dorm mate of mine in 1993. He had a 20" CRT (Viewsonic maybe?) that was connected with four component cables to a Matrox video card. I'm sure that it would be laughable today but damn, in 1993 that thing was unbelievable.
That's an opinion piece. It's even filed under "opinion" with a big section header so you can't confuse it for a news report. Are we talking about bias in opinion pages or news reporting?
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The feedback we've been getting from employers is that they're much more comfortable paying on an hourly basis. They're worried about a team abandoning a project half way through, etc.

We're exploring different ways to charge for projects as we move forward.
I sure hope Hi5's engineers saw this coming when they brought on Alex St. John, "a former Microsoft evangelist," as CEO in late 2009.
You obviously didn't grow up in the shareware gaming days. All the old Apogee classics (Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, etc) were 1 episode teasers that required you to pay to play the remainder of the game.
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rushcheck is a bit moribund, or was last time i checked. https://github.com/hayeah/rantly is pretty nice.
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Does this effect dual booting OS X? I doubt the side-effect of blocking Linux boots was anything but a coincidence. But could Microsoft be fearful of Hackintoshes becoming more popular and a increase of OS X running on non-Apple hardware?
You have a daily stand-up at 9:30, so even though you get in at 9, you don't bother starting anything because the stand-up will cut it short as soon as you get rolling. The stand-up is supposed to be 10 minutes, tops, but regularly balloons into a half-hour behemoth. You make your daily sojourn to Starbucks with the other developers and get back to your open work area at 10:15. There's a business user waiting for you. You develop internal tools and the brass is too cheap to employ a support staff, so you are level 1. They're supposed to open a support ticket and assign it to you instead of walking over to your desk, but you've already sent them packing the same way three times this week, and it looks like they're ready to cry, so you open a new browser window and ask what the problem is. You end up having to pull in a sysadmin, and after an hour, the two of you determine that it's a problem with a third-party service, so you open a support ticket with them and tell the business user you'll keep them updated.

It's now 11:15. The developers start lunch at around 11:30 - noon every day, so there's no reason to get started on anything now. You get back from your hour lunch break at 12:45. There's a meeting on your outlook calendar at 1 o' clock, but you read the description and decide to skip it since there are already enough developers on the docket to give enough input. You're just gathering momentum at 1:05 when the Project Manager who organized the meeting appears at your desk, asking you to come to the meeting.

"I have a lot on my plate; the other two devs know enough about the system to keep the ball rolling."

"Well," she counters, "I really need everyone's input for this meeting." (Just like every other meeting.)

"There are 20 people on the invite list... if there are any problems, I'm sure I can just follow up with you after you send out the meeting minutes."

"Look, I really need you here for this; this isn't a skippable meeting." (None of hers are.) Finally you fold--you didn't take this job because you were a go-getter who knows how to tell people "no" repeatedly. The meeting is scheduled for 1PM - 2PM, but (like most meetings at this company), it goes until 2:30.

You get back to your desk and there are a dozen new IMs and e-mails blinking on your screen. You fantasize about just closing everything and working, but you've been here long enough to know that un-answered IMs and e-mails will result in people walking over to your desk, just like the jilted business user from this morning. For a couple of months you managed to put your foot down, mark yourself as "busy" in Outlook for the afternoon, and tell people that you simply won't deal with any non-critical problem during that period, but hearing complaints about issue turnaround time come through your boss was too much of a drain.

You answer IMs, follow up on e-mails, flip through high-priority code reviews and take care of other necessary busywork for about an hour and a half.

At 4PM, you get started on your work.
It makes somewhat some sense that MS will do this especially since Hyper-V (VM Hypervisor) is now built-in to Windows8. "Want Linux? You need Windows too..."

Other options?:

- DIY with OEM materials
- Apple :-P
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Here is a direct link to Matthew Garret's blog post so that you can skip itworld's paraphrasing.

http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/5552.html
> Does this effect dual booting OS X? I doubt the side-effect of blocking Linux boots was anything but a coincidence. But could Microsoft be fearful of Hackintoshes becoming more popular and a increase of OS X running on non-Apple hardware?

I doubt it. Whilst I don't mean to belittle the hard work that goes into the hackintosh projects out there, we're talking about a tiny, tiny group of people that probably have an imperceptible impact on MSFT's bottom line.
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Despite the confusing parts of Bilski, is it at least now clear that In re. Alappat and State Street are no longer considered valid precedent?
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I worked for about 6 months in an office with an open floor plan, and the noise did get to me sometimes, but at those times I would undock my laptop and find an empty desk in some other division where people didn't have conference calls going on speakerphone. (BTW, hearing a conference call coming out of two speakerphones - or hearing a person speaking to your left and then their voice coming out of a speakerphone on your right half a second later - is perhaps the most distracting thing ever.)
> On its face, this all sounds well and good, until one considers the patent’s own depiction of its allegedly not abstract invention:

What point are they making? Surely it can't be that the diagram is abstract... Diagrams are by nature abstract.

IIRC, the key to CyberSource Corp. v. Retail Decisions, Inc. (about credit card risk assessment over the internet) was in the precise wording of the claims - they didn't use the word "internet", even though that was how the invention was described. The thing is, the description in a patent is just "one embodiment" of the invention, and it is up to the claims to be clear about the actual scope of the invention. Claim too much and you're dead.

That's why most inventions have a series of dependent claims of decreasing scope - if the court finds one is too broad, the next one might be OK. A ridiculously broad first claim does no harm - provided you confine it later. From reading several patents, I've formed the impression that the first claim is often used as a sort of framework "here's the basic idea", and its wording is more to do with making it convenient to hang the other claims on than intrinsic merit.
Yes, please! Even if it is not a software solution (like some kind of physical filter I could place on top of the screen.)

I've got f.lux on my laptop, but I predominantly use my iPad in the evenings.
I wonder why 280slides never really took off. This still seems like an unsolved problem (hosting slides online)
That would explain the downvotes, thank you.
For a different type of background, Bryan O'Sullivan is the author of some of the best Haskell libraries out there. The de facto standard JSON parser/serializer is his doing, for example, and his Riak client is the best I've seen in any language. This guy really knows what he's talking about.
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Interesting writeup. The lessons learned section could apply to any startup.
Totally agree. As of right now, our business in its current state isn't hugely scalable. We're high touch on both sides of the table. As we begin to scale, we'll have to make sure we maintain both talented startup teams and high quality projects. Because talent is in such high demand, it makes more sense to limit the signup of talented startups first and cater to the demand from employers. Then, slowly grow the startup pool.

Oh and one for my co-founders has connections in Australia if you're interested.
Until 4PM, you've also been working on things that are value-adds on some level. Your choice not to make use of the small time windows (which aren't actually so small) is your own choice, not a direct function of the office.
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I doubt any major vendor will do this. First off, they don't want to be locked into selling Microsoft-only machines. If they can't pretend Linux is an option, Microsoft can charge them $1000 for a Windows license and there's nothing they can do about it. If they have Linux hanging over Microsoft's head, though, they'll get better pricing on Windows. (Think this won't happen? It already did with XP on netbooks. When Microsoft realized that everyone was happy to get $100 off the price of their laptop to run Firefox under Linux instead of under Windows, they had no choice but to make it nearly free.)

If that doesn't work, the need for booting non-standard Windows images will save us. I've never worked for any company that ran a stock Windows install -- everyone rolls their own. If new machines won't boot this image, guess what, that new machine is bought from some vendor that doesn't do this to them. And the only reason most people use Windows at home is because they use Windows at work. If big companies started migrating away from Windows, Microsoft could be in serious trouble. (Yup, Microsoft Word is much nicer than LibreOffice Writer or AbiWord. But you don't know that if you've never used it. Or, you don't care, because you're writing a memo, not a book. And that's $600 Microsoft loses right there.)

Next, we're forgetting the all-important server market. Nobody uses Windows as a server OS, so all those servers are going to have to be able to run Grub. Since servers are what make the OEMs money (they actually need that quad core chip, you don't), keeping users of that market happy will be the hardware companies' biggest concern. If Intel chips stop booting Linux, guess what, AMD is the new king of the market.

Finally, many of these companies are in markets other than consumer computers, and they won't want to alienate their other partners. If, say, Samsung says "our hardware will only run Windows", then they won't be manufacturing Android phones or Chromebooks anymore. And that's a big deal, because they won't be manufacturing iPhones either, and that means they're out of the mobile market. (Have you ever seen anyone without MVP certification anywhere near a Windows Phone? I didn't think so.)

Basically, Windows is important, but not so important that anyone would want to be the first to go Windows-only in hardware. Hardware companies want to provide nice computers at a nice price. End users mostly want to browse the web. This puts Microsoft in a position to do exactly what the market wants, not what it thinks it can bear. When you're at the top, the only place to go is down. And that is where Microsoft is going.
I'm told that at least one vendor is going to lose a lot of money when its investors find out about this.
It's surprising how often people overlook weird edge cases that QuickCheck finds, because it doesn't have as many preconceptions about what kinds of inputs are sensible.
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I think you misinterpreted my comment. I didn't mention Linux anywhere in it, but specifically talk about how when dealing with OOM you must first discuss what the kernel provides. On RTEMS can malloc actually return 0 or does it never return 0 and there is a signal or some other event that is sent out from the kernel? These are the most important bits of information in this problem.
@asuth and I built "Speller" -- would love to hear any feedback on it. You can try it out here:

http://quizlet.com/2139265/speller/
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Googling for the quoted text in the review reveals that the original source appears to be the website of a competing product. I cannot find the article in Science which is supposedly referenced but not cited.
So it seems that the "abstract idea" under Bilski has turned into "does it look complicated enough."

In Research Techs. Corp. v. Microsoft Corp., from last year, the court said that a method of halftoning was not abstract, because it involved a process of comparing pixels. In CyberSource, the court explained that comparing pixels was not abstract because "the method could not, as a practical matter, be performed entirely in a human mind."

Similarly, in the Ultramercial case, the court says that the method is not abstract because "Many of these steps are likely to require intricate and complex computer programming," and "certain of these steps clearly require specific application to the Internet."

These words, "as a practical matter," "intricate and complex computer programming," and "specific application to the Internet," are what throw me for a loop. As a practical matter, I can compare four numbers on a piece of paper, but I can't download a million numbers off of the Internet and compare them. So comparing four numbers on a piece of paper is an abstract idea, but comparing a million numbers on the Internet is not?
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You're right! However, it's inefficient for a developer to always be doing that much non-development work. And it is possible to get real work done during the small windows, but only certain types of real work. Occasionally you can fit in a bunch of good bug-fixes. Other times you're able to organize things into discrete small tasks up-front, and you can get a few of those things done with each small window. But, it's impossible to really achieve flow in those circumstances. The lack of flow is really the gist of my argument.
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Thanks abbasmehdi! I checked out ProfNet and will create an account first thing tomorrow. Great idea!

As for making this a snap, the content of each book comes from a social network (yours or someone you're giving the book to) so the speed with which that network contributes content is likely the biggest driver of project duration. So while it's possible to make a book in a day and have it on your doorstep in a week, it all comes down to how quickly a social network responds.

If you have time, please create an account, take the app for a test drive and let me know what you think.

Thanks again!
That looks like nice work, but I'm curious why you needed to develop your own system statistics gathering system rather than use an existing one like http://collectd.org/ (which can be connected to graphite via https://github.com/joemiller/collectd-graphite)
"An OS with a Pkek matching that installed in the firmware may add additional keys to the whitelist."

Does this mean you can just add you own key and self sign any code you want?
This must explain why ARs, not AKs or FALs took the stand at Camp Perry the past several years.
Two things:
a) I once heard a good quote and I think it's often true and helpful to think about if hiring: "Talent doesn't come in convenient packages".

b) The best traits of someone are very often some of their worst as well. Be mindful of that when trying to find the "perfect" candidate. Example: Someone who communicates well might also communicate (i.e. talk) a lot instead of working at their workstation for extended periods. The point is to not expect perfection from people. And by perfection, I mean excellence in several types of disparate skills.
In a sense, depositing money in a bank is a sort of loan to the bank. They then loan your money out to others, and give you a cut of the interest. It isn't really "held in an account," rather there is a register which says how much money you loaned to them.
As far as I can tell, the only reason to have the streaming queue at all is for the brain dead integration that some devices do. For instance, my TiVo requires the queue but my Apple TV does not. For that reason alone I use the Apple TV to watch Netflix streaming as the two step process isn't good.
> A ridiculously broad first claim does no harm

That might be true other than the fact that each claim gives rise to an individual legal right. A ridiculously broad first claim can be asserted as in a cease-and-desist, it can be the basis for a lawsuit, and it can cost those who are threatened thousands of dollars to invalidate, if it even is invalidated. So they actually do cause a lot of harm.
Good writeup but long. Are you saying that keeping the code on your own site improves SEO?
The Spotify streaming model is the same as the Netflix streaming model. They just have far fewer licenses. What do you see as distinguishing characteristics of Spotify over Netflix beyond available content?
I notice there's a load-balancer in front of the nodejs servers. Would that become the single point of failure and single point of bottleneck? How many concurrent connections can the load-balancer take?
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Wow, this could be pretty awesome as a way for potential cofounders to find each other and work on a project together to see if they jive with each other.
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I think the point they're making is that the "diagram of the invention" doesn't actually show the invention, but rather ... the Internet on which it runs. Qualifies as abstract in my book.
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Very, Very interesting concept. This is very much what I've been thinking of doing with my new company rivvir.com. Thanks for verifying the business model!

Seriously though, my focus was on doing something like this to cultivate the Houston Startup scene(there isn't much of one yet but there seems to be simmering pot and few really good start ups.) Blog posts here:

http://www.rivvir.com/blog/
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I too once ran a bbs (614 area code). But the link between the bbs scene and today's Facebook is a bit tenuous, isn't it? Makes for an attractive headline though.
This is one of the best comments on here. 'Talent' is not a one dimensional scalar.
Why is it a desirable goal to move up the Kardashev scale?

Quite simply, moving up the Kardashev scale need not harm the desires of those who want to live in their own version of harmony with nature, while satisfying the desires of those who prefer continually advancing technology. Preserving the status quo, forcing urbanization, or reverting to a more agrarian society also will satisfy the naturists/locavores/etc., but at the expense of the technologists/futurists.

Thus, from a utilitarian perspective, technological advancement provides greater net satisfaction than technological stagnation.
This isn't particularly useful in the point-by-point slideshow form that was obviously designed for someone to be saying something about most of the points.
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Totally. It could even turn into a startup pre-incubator where your team can be vetted by working on a couple short-term gigs together (all while making money).