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Publicly traded game companies are judged by quarterly figures... In the case of Blizzard and Bioware, Activision and EA stock are hugely affected by their revenues. Its not right, and it leads to games being shipped too early to attempt to improve quarterly revenues (I worked on a THQ project where this happened), but it happens all the time.
if you work in palo alto then its roughly 40 miles from the city, 80miles roundtrip. assuming 30mpg, 2 2/3 gallons * $4/gallon > $10 in gas. + saving time. if the shuttle ran regularly enough and was comparable in time, then i think $10-$15 roundtrip is reasonable.

that said, caltrain is a smoother, cheaper ride.
eInk isn't the best solution in a lot of instances. A back-lit display is a lot more visually accessible.

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There is a glaring typo on the front page. The section titled "Fully anonymous and secure editing" contains the following sentence:

"Your confidential documents will be kept in our secure servers and can only accessed by you and our team."

I'm no professional proofreader but I think that "can only accessed" is non-English.

Fail.
It is unfortunate that instead of turning into a discussion about how to excel in an algorithms interview (which is what the original post is about) this thread has wandered into whether it is useful to even learn algorithms.

What a waste!
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See also http://appscript.sourceforge.net/

"Appscript is a high-level, user-friendly Apple event bridge that allows you to control scriptable Mac OS X applications from Python, Ruby and Objective-C."
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There was a case time ago, where apes, monkeys or gorillas (not sure) "stole" a camera a took pictures of themselves - now you have a copyright by a thousand monkeys...
wow Mike, very nice. Cheers.
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> and even writing stories just like this one

Alright, that is a bit farfetched.
Can you expand on why you feel that way?
Heh, as a person that loves Cocoa but doesn't own an iOS device (ok, I do have an iPod touch I got for free with my MBP), initializers like that are all over my code.
Still, Textmate (and ST2 and BBEdit) is nice in that you don't have to go google "Quit Textmate" or read a man page or ask someone on IRC to figure out how to quit the damn program. Other features, like Filter Through Command, are easily discoverable via the menu system. Likewise, configuration options are easily discoverable through the Preferences window.

I may be a programmer, but that doesn't mean I want to learn a new language just to use my text editor.

Also, I happen to like my scroll wheel.
Apply the principles of Customer Development. It will be a good exercise.
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Looking over it again, I don't think there's a single code example in there without an error. Did he even bother to try compiling this example before posting? What is it with dangerously bad Objective-C resources for beginners?
... says the post with no visible date?
Never heard of this one. It's awesome.
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95% decline in profits doesn't mean much, especially in a young company. It only means they spent much more that quarter than in the previous quarters. It's absolutely normal, if they are trying to grow or investing in their future.
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Who will they sell to?

Will robots buy the things that are made in the end?

Why will people build robot factories,cab drivers,teachers and doctors if there is no demand?

Automation is self-limiting in that the robots will only built if there are consumers who want to buy the end product.
Very interested in this, but I just spent 4 years working for the transportation department at Genentech, and it's not going to be as easy as it sounds. Pickups, dropoffs, routing scheduling ... dealing with over and under capacity issues. Very curious to find out who's planning this and what's up their sleeve. This could be really fantastic, or a massive you-know-what-show.
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Isn't that what a game generally is? I don't play games because I get something real out of it - I play them as something to keep me entertained, and thus waste time while I could be doing something else. The same could really be said about any game including sports (though it has physical benefits) and other games like chess.
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I find it extremely difficult to come up with a great or at least a good idea for a startup

The idea itself isn't the hard part. I come up with dozens of ideas every week. The hard part is turning that idea into a successful business. That takes lots of hard work, sleepless nights, pounding pavements, fruitless sales calls and emails, the list goes on. The old adage of finding a problem and solving it still applies. Just today, one problem that presented itself that a startup could solve is:

Employee Scheduling. My wife is a per diem float team nurse at the number 3 hospital in the United States. When she wants to work, she calls in to an automated phone system, and records a series of messages after the beep to schedule herself (day shift, 12 hours, department, name, phone number, etc). Someone then listens to all of these messages, as well as messages from department heads looking to fill staffing needs. This person in the staffing office then calls my wife at 4am to let her know where she should report (or if they don't have anything for her). Tell me why that can't be a simple online/mobile app, with Twilio integration to send a text message, voicemail, or email confirmation? The same app could be used to schedule appointments for nearly anything...dentists, hair salons, you name it. You could beef it up by offering options such as realtime availability, payment processing, etc., to make it applicable to multiple industries. And you could charge a monthly fee, or per appointment, you name it.

Of course to turn this into a startup, you'd have to build the backend, the app, and have a sales team to sign up businesses, but it could be a hit.
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I use google apps to host my email for my company, with all emails backed up to our server. Why is that foolish?
At some point, when all the means of production and deduction are automated, capitalism will likely collapse. My input to society as an individual will come from my human qualities, not from my labor or reasoning qualities. Star Trek TNG's society seems more prophetic every day.
Also ST2's go to file will do fuzzy matching on the full path, instead of just the filename. This is huge when you have a lot of files named __init__.py, for example.
I pay $8 each way for a Ferry from Marin to SF which has no wifi but serves an ice cold beer for the ride home. Anything less than $16 roundtrip a win. Another big win: be Clipper Card compatible!!
Please, start with Scott Stevenson's tutorials instead:

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I honestly don't believe that. (How could you or Facebook prove that?)

I deleted my account a few months ago. However I have no way of verifying if all that data is gone for good, overwritten with some new persons data to sell to marketers.

But the reason I deleted my Facebook account is because I just don't trust Facebook.
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Where is it? i dont see it.
All those $3 per ride people are employed by companies who value their presence at hundreds per day. a) Bill the company. b) Charge more.
Probably something similar to what's described here: http://bit.ly/qAb7nM

Perhaps they've changed their tune, but early on Zynga had a questionable ethical reputation
Google says McKinnon's sells ground chicken for $1.49 --- which is itself an absurdly low price, lower than Costco, wildly lower than the supermarkets --- a boneless chicken breast costs $0.50 more than that per pound?
Is Kindle bookstore really a differentiator? What will Kindle bookstore do that Kindle for iPad does not?
http://xkcd.com/955/ applies here.
Ehrman's book mixes fact with a great deal of speculation. I would not recommend it as a starting place.

For a more factual treatment, I'd recommend starting with the wikipedia article on "textual criticism" (the process of reconstructing documents from imperfect copies). Its section on the New Testament has a list of the major textual problems, most of which have their own wikipedia articles.

If you want to get into books, David Alan Black wrote a fairly nice introduction to New Testament textual criticism. Bruce Metzger and Kurt Aland's books are both pretty widely respected as well. If you want to see the changes passage-by-passage during study, consider using the NET Bible (net.bible.org) and watching for notes marked "tc".
Good luck. I actually like Google Wave. :)
You keep using that word "unskilled", I do not think it means what you think it means. Whether it's farm work, factory work, or service industry work it's disingenuous to call it "unskilled". It requires a different genre of skills than office work, typically, but there are nevertheless many levels of skill and substantial differences in work quality and productivity depending on experience levels. A lot of the jobs you have put into the "unskilled" bag have extensive formal education programs, for example.

On a more personal note, I find this commonplace bigotry against the working class to be appalling and indicative of limited and closed minds. The idea that there is this huge labor pool of second class citizens, gammas or such-like, that is barely above the level of trained chimp, and their skills are so minor it's just a matter of time before the smarties of the world replace them with superior robotics, is disgusting. It is a fantasy. And worse it's a very derogatory and prejudicial fantasy.
We're practically in chicken HQ! This is weird.

We avoid fresh chicken breasts; they're extravagantly more expensive than other better meat options.

But yes, my point is that price really isn't the issue, except that I don't believe home cooking is so much cheaper that it makes a real difference for people.
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Most of Zynga's games differ only very superficially though. It's weird that they can't launch games fast enough to stave off attrition.
I think that they just have access to 1 or more web servers. The hostname in the screenshot is http3.web.mysql.com. An organization like Oracle would presumably have multiple levels of security. It's likely the web servers would run in a DMZ, i.e. the lowest level of security.
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Flying a UAV for commercial purposes is already illegal. However, mounting a gun on there would raise his chances of being prosecuted substantially.
The way cost per square feet is measured in real estate is awkward. You take the monthly rent and annualize it by multiply it by 12 months. So, 2,100 is multiplied by 12 to get $25,200. Then, it's divided by the number of square feet in the apartment, which is 800 square feet. That leads to $31.50 dollars per square foot.
Right. Change the pitch from "how much would you pay?" to "would you lobby your company to hire us to provide shuttle services?", now it's 100% "yes" responses.

And I bet more companies would provide shuttle services if someone else handled all the messy details.

No reason each company needs their own shuttle either, so it's efficient and cheap. You can also allow individuals to purchase one-off tickets as well.
Tracking by IP is a ridiculous idea. My mobile phone provider uses transparent proxying for its mobile Internet - I must share the same external IP as thousands of other people when I browse the web via my phone. Not to mention that households using NAT will have three plus accounts from the one IP, let alone businesses with hundreds.

Internet-facing IP simply isn't unique enough for these purposes.
It would be nice, but I bet the former question is asked far more frequently than the latter.
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PACs distribute money based on business interests. So the idea is that if your interests align with theirs, then it's easier for them to distribute the money to the wide array of candidates instead of you researching every single one.

"Also, does Facebook have a responsibility to track who's giving what? Because if they have international hires on staff, surely only citizens of the US can donate?"

Yes. I also believe your name is publicly listed as a donor if your contribution is over a certain amount. For example, here are the donors to AT&T's pac: http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/pacgave2.php?cycle=2012&...

On a slightly related note, companies with foreign HQs but with an American divisions can create PACs and get contributions from American employees.
More than one application I've handled recently has included links to HN and LinkedIn profiles. Most list github account.
Hey James, well the beauty of it is that you're not asking for a judgement. A judgement requires the judge to deem that they shouldn't be there or should pay rent. The contract deems the lease broken if they pay later than 30 days without written consent by me (landlord). Thus, they revert to a month-by-month tenant and the judge is required to follow the law so the tenants can be evicted by the local sheriff's department.
It's impossible for everyone to be rich. In order for someone to win, many have to loose.

Only if you define "rich" in relative terms. In absolute terms, virtually everyone in the US is rich, including most of those the government classifies as "in poverty".
> Is New York's Tech Boom Sustainable?

Why, yes, yes it is. The talk was very enjoyable, but the entire event felt like a sales pitch for NYC businesses to scoot over to Cali for the better weather and opportunities.

Aside from Valley elitism, there is absolutely no reason why Y Combinator shouldn't have an operation in NYC. In fact, it's about time.
I think that we can stop this debate about whether innovation will necessarily lead to success (financially) or not. I might have one case to against you. One case in Asia: the biggest online gaming company in Vietnam (and also in South-East Asia) called VNG bought license of one game from the Chinese Kingsoft, rebranded it, customized the UI, distributed in Vietnam and now they have $60M in revenue. The key success factor is that the market is so ripe and so ready for online gaming, and the game VNG sells in VN just "works" for those customers, they keep paying for the company for the virtual goods and monthly subscription. nobody cares the originality of the game.
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I love this. While I agree with other comments here that it would be good to target employers, I urge you to continue to invite individual members, lest this promising idea devolve into yet another "large(r) company has a shuttle and I don't" situation!
When talking of learning in this sense, no one talks of reading the book from the first page to the last page.

The learning is often sufficient to serve the needs at the moment. If I have to quickly fix my juicer, I don't under go do Electrical and mechanical engineering courses for the next 4 years.

Instead what I do is, I define the problem. Search for the solutions on the internet. The solution requires me to understand some theory and some practical aspects of things with some tool usage. It is more than sufficient to that to solve the problem for the moment.

That is how most of the software is, its practically impossible to know every thing from the book. What is more important today is given the body of knowledge can a person study and solve the problems. A person can be productive and deliver the goods with the above approach, With a little discipline.

That's how most knowledge based work happens in the 21st century.

I also see a lot of people around me trading stocks, although they understand virtually nothing about economics in detail. For the most the part they can make 10-15% profit on their investment by just using some basic analytical skills.
While OS X is great, it is slightly less hackable than I would like. MacRuby is a great way to fix this. I have slowly been piecing together various MacRuby scripts that do this sort of thing, and hopefully will someday be releasing it. The goal is to create an emacs-like system (tiling window manager, I mean) out of the entire OS. I entirely expect it to be somewhat ugly, but workable.
It's only open source for open source projects. I would be using at $work, so a commercial license is my only option. Way back when, I remember the "discussions" that took place when ExtJS backed off from it's original true open source license.

Perhaps I'll look at Sproutcore now that it's had more time to mature.
This brings up an interesting question: Does this make more sense as an enterprise service? I guess that puts you in the ring with bus companies like BauerIT, but perhaps the democratic aspect of sharing a shuttle between companies can make us cheaper
But not everyone can build internet startups, we can't all have startups.

What stops us from all having startups? Cost of labour is one of the biggest reasons. You either have to pour months to years of your time into a product just to see if it will succeed, or pay someone else to do the work for you.

If you could feed your plan into a robot on Friday and have the product in your hand on Monday, all built for pennies, the barrier is lowered to the point that anyone can do it.

More importantly, success need not be large in such a scenario. All you need is one customer to pay you a few dollars and you are ready to move on to solving the next person's problems. You don't have to bank on major or even moderate success.

It takes a lot of skill to become a worthy programmer

Skill is a function of time. It takes a lot of time to become a great programmer, no question. Those who love programming take that time to become great. Those who have no interest in programming do not. However, giving a compelling enough reason, they could do it.
And financial companies, banks, hedge funds etc. Even the most "boring" financial companies (actuaries, insurance companies) process huge amounts of data where performance becomes critical.

We have a data base that gathers about a 5GB of market data a day and we have to run algorithms to analyse the data and analyse the behaviour of our system. Efficient algorithms become very important.
Interesting, would a fridge with prepackaged sandwiches do? (otherwise we could need to get all kinds of health certifications I think).

Do you live close to caltrain? One advantages shuttles usually have is that they pick up from multiple spots in the city
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"distractions of city life" is no understatement. What makes NYC quite a fun place to visit or live in also detracts from it becoming a serious contender to the Valley. It's a city of bankers who have, or traditionally have had, tons of money to throw around, and the restaurants, nightclubs and realtors who serve them. Everyone else has been mostly ancillary.
Maybe that will change. Maybe one of the startups here will go public and become the next Google or Facebook, but I really don't see those types of people working in the city. It seems like even at Google, the more serious engineers are pulled back to the Valley. And despite it's reportedly growing membership rolls, I'm pretty doubtful about foursquare's future as well - and I honestly think it may have had a good one if it was HQ'ed in the Valley.
The reported advantages of NYC - such as the ability to just roll into the offices of media or advertising companies or fashion houses, so you can cut deals with them - are largely myths.
These luddites completely understand the situation. Software will simply replace the menial parts of jobs, leaving only the more interesting parts left to humans. In other words, you'll be able to do more with what you have, and you won't be bored out of your mind doing repetitive tasks.

In math: The Boyer-Moore theorem solver. This completely replaces a mathematicians job of proving theorems, right? Wrong. It replaces the menial task of connecting the steps, and making sure the proof is correct. Mathematicians can now focus on the bigger picture, more complicated proofs, instead of wasting time verifying the correctness of their proof.

In law: I'm not familiar with the exact system name, but there are systems that make retrieving huge legal databases to find relevant cases much much easier. This replaces the menial legal-aide jobs, but not the creative aspect of figuring out how to tie past cases together, present your case in court, etc. (I'm not super familiar with a lawyer's job, but you get the point.)

In art: Photoshop makes effects take much less work.

I could go on all day. Technology is what creates growth, and those who refuse to learn the new technology deserve to be left behind.
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The major search engine providers all have referral fee programs.

So while Mozilla does make money from those, it would do that no matter which of the major search engines it defaulted to, no?

And note that there is a reason the search field is not merged with the url bar in Firefox. Precisely because it would be a privacy violation.
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>> Edit: I realize the above comment sounds a little condescending. It wasn't meant to be. I have met self taught programmers that are amazing. Most people just don't have the self discipline to fully learn a subject matter (I many times don't). So a lot of "self taught" programmers have only taught themselves 10% of what they need to know and never bother learning the other 90%.

It was condescending to my eyes, nothing more nothing less.
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