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The way I see it is I'm providing a launching point for a concerted, collaborative effort.

I figured Rick wouldn't have had a chance otherwise - which is pretty evident given he wasn't actually invited until I got people to make a stink by emailing PR departments of show sponsors and the show's producer directly.

Only took 5 hours to get him the invite when that started happening.
The main limiting thing there for me that's annoying is that Mac OS seems to require me to use my laptop's screen as the main one putting the menubar there instead of on my larger external monitor.
Great talk - thanks! I've mirrored the file (and changed the extension to .wmv). On mac I had to use VLC to play it and change the audio to Track 2 to hear it. It was definitely worth the effort though to get it downloaded and playing.

http://mattjaynes.com/keynote-ezra.wmv
LOL. Nothing said at BJ's is ever real. Would be more credible if he's having breakfast at Caffe Macs. No one shows off gadgets during lunch.
The song is "futuristic sex robots - fuck the mpaa"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnLB8wysMbY
Perl is heavily used on Wall Street and among banks, so, I'd say the answer is yes.

I'm not familiar with the field, but I imagine CPAN has a chunk of functionality to start with. I also recall reading a couple of Perl Journal articles on the topic a while back.
> If the record and movie companies are failing it's because people have decided that their products aren't worthy of immediate purchase... then they download them and realize they're not worthy of purchase, period.

It would be great if studios only produced great music and movies.

Until now, a lot of crap has been produced knowingly because all they need is people going into theatres & music videos with scantily clad women waving their asses around.

But in their quest for quality, how could the studios always choose only the productions which will actually rise to true greatness?

A lot of good stuff would never make it through, but maybe that's alright since no one has enough time and money to discover all the music he would fall in love with anyway.

You and I might enjoy high quality entertainment, but what about Most People?

They're the ones buying and liking all that crap that has very little merit other than some random hot guy/girl being fascinating?

It's problematic. Smart people want quality, but most people will settle for whatever's rammed down their throats.

As for me, I actually buy quite a lot of music that I really like, because I want it at maximum quality.

I'm not as innocent when it comes to movies. Sometimes I download them, but rarely go see them in theatres.

Sometimes I start watching a downloaded movie but stop because it's not good enough.

Sometimes, a downloaded movie happens to be really enjoyable, but will I go buy it after watching?

Nope..

The problem is that the re-use value of good music is pretty much infinite, but you'll rarely want to watch even a good movie again, so after seeing it, its value drops close to zero.
A depression just means a lot of big companies are going to fail, thus leaving vacuums just begging to be filled.

But, yeah, the whole "hyper-inflation leading to a massively devalued currency, rampant unemployment and poverty, enormous waves of foreclosures, bankruptcies, and bank failures" thing is going to rather suck for a great many people.

Just remember, paradigm shifts = opportunity.
The baby video wasn't marketed. Remix culture is pretty local most of the time. Viral videos are an exception - not every video uploaded on a video-sharing site is watched by millions.

We do value it but its more intimate and less noticeable than mass culture. Most stuff people create - jokes, sketches, songs, voiced opinions, puns, parodies, etc. etc. isn't shared. In fact this "microculture" is the basis of our social lives.

I think mass culture is both a result and a product of our social alienation. The Internet and a better, less snobbish school education in music, literature and art can make wonders for world peace and love ;-).
Something doesn't have to have mass appeal to be valuable. In fact, that's pretty much what he's arguing for: amateur remixes, which might not have the reach of something with publisher backing, should not be illegal and punishable with extortion-style fines.
Great news. Selling isn't actually hard, but it's scary especially as most of us on this site have below par selling skills. Metaphorically, "Knocking on the door" is the hard part.
You know abhout this "drag and drop" thing? Open up the Displays preference pane. You see the two (or more) screens and you can drag them around to decicde how to arrange your virtual desktop.

Now drag the menu bar to whichever screen you like. And remember, Google is your friend.
So because there are 34 million Spanish speakers in US I am going to say US is Spanish?

There are 3 million Greeks in United States but If I come to US I suppose I'd say I am going to Greece?

The only excuse to call it a turkish party is if there was a Turk amongst them. Otherwise is wrong and irritating.

Otherwise, the only reasonable way to refer to it, so not to provoke, is call it a Cyprus party.
When did it ever stop changing?
So, I know you're asking more from an "approach to business" perspective than a "how much Open Source goes on in the valley" perspective...but, I figured I'd chime in, anyway:

I've been surprised by how little Open Source happens in the valley, at least among the "young, rich and good looking" startup set that shows up all the time on TC and Valleywag. I'm somewhat disappointed by it, as well. Folks are building everything they do on Free and Open Source Software. It's polite to give something back, even if the license was written before web apps were a presence, and so you aren't legally obligated to do so. I don't want that to sound too harsh or too inclusive. There are tons of startups, in the valley and elsewhere, that do take part in Open Source development, but I'd say for every one that I meet at events, I meet five startup founders that have never contributed a line of code to Open Source, even though their apps are built with PHP, Ruby, Perl, or Python, using vast swaths of Open Source library code, are checked into git or Subversion, and run on top of Linux. This could just be selection bias, since it seems like a lot of OSS folks are more likely to be bootstrapping outside of the valley.

Anyway, we're an Open Source project (Webmin/Virtualmin/Usermin) turned startup. It has positives and negatives, but I don't think one can say, "You can't be the next Google/Yahoo/Microsoft, if you're running a fun Open Source oriented company"...we don't know that yet. It's still early in the history of OSS startups. Red Hat does OK. MySQL AB sold to Sun for ~$500 million, XenSource to Citrix for ~$300...Not Google/Yahoo/MS money, but nothing to sneeze at. Making money on Open Source is harder than on proprietary software, in general. But, you get some awesome benefits. Like, how many of our competitors can claim millions of users? Not a single one. While our software has been downloaded over 12 million times from a single source (and OSS ends up in all sorts of funny places without showing up on the download counter, because it gets packaged, included with distros and hardware products, comes from local mirrors, etc.). And, let's face it, when you have a million people looking at your software on a daily basis, you pretty much can't help but make money if you're trying. Free is a powerful game changer in most markets, and changing the game might be mandatory if you're working in an established market against strong competitors.

From the perspective of raising money, investors don't have a problem with it, and most understand OSS. It may even be a positive angle for them, assuming you still have a business model after factoring in, "But it's free!"
SERIOUSLY, you guys need to get off this bandwagon. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with the world enconomy. Resources are available, production is huge everywhere and rising, more and more people are entering the rich class, more and more countries are becoming industrialised, there are very few active wars right now.

We live in an unprecendented era of peace and prosperity, and this 'problem' we are observing is just a matter of numbers being pushed from one person to the other. But there is still value being produced, there is still demand for that value.

You should become afraid when you see people withdrawing their savings from the banks, and when a major hostile economic block comes up. What we're observing is just economic readjustment, it's not critical.

If in a year this situation still exists, I'll eat my hat on a webcam. You can hold me to that.
Ah, didn't realize that you could drag the menubar separately.
it is minding its own business.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1020_ageofempire/...

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20992.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnLWSC5p1XE Q&A...
That's great.. have read a lot about you on your blog. Are you guys generating revenue?
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probably a dedicated peripheral, which you need to capture the light patterns anyway (right?).
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"Some analysts are expecting the laptops to start at less than $800, compared with $1,099 now" -- WSJ
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My frustration with service charges (as well as tipping) is that the amount I have to pay isn't the same as the price written in the menu. Last time I visited the US, it was maddening. Between taxes added on top of price tags in stores, tipping, and service charges, and various other small print fees, it felt like the entire system was designed to trick the consumer into overspending.

In Taiwan, the price you see on an item in a store or on a menu is actually the price you have to pay.
Amen, brother.

When my grandfather (an entrepreneur himself) asked what this meant for us I said, "We keep going. What else could we do? This will hurt our competitors more than us."

I'd love to see bloated tech companies start dropping like flies. It'd leave such huge holes in the market that just beg for someone to come in and fill them with a lean startup.
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Depends on whether you're leaning forward as you are pulling.
Sometimes you just need to look outside the window and see what's going on. A a lot of successful businesses started out completely different from what they are now. They probably did observe others.
Agreed. The pseudo-code had it in a more readable style. If it must be compressed onto one line then

a = 0; b = (0, 0); c = float('infinity')

is preferable if a, b, and c are logically unrelated compared to

a, b, c = 0, (0, 0), float('infinity')

especially as the list gets longer. Why should the reader first count to find where variable `foo' is on the left-hand side before then counting the same number of places on the right?
If you truly believe what you are saying, then it logically follows that you have bought a great deal of gold, silver, or other precious metals, which for 5000 years have been a measure of value and served as a hedge against inflation.

So, how much gold/silver have you actually purchased? Put your money where your mouth is...
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Of course, most people don't pirate for that reason -- they do it because it's free.

A site for any band to upload their music to be available for free with a built in donation system would be popular indeed. Maybe even profitable?
Isn't fear the mind killer of everything? Fear is why animals can't talk! here's a link to prove a point (no particular point)

http://tefflox.net

please vote up and such. i'm experimenting with karma point-systems. going to revolutionize them, i say, re-vo-lu-tion-ize.
There's not a taboo on reading politics; there's a taboo on posting it here.
NASA researches windowless cockpits; future businessjets might employ
Someone should talk about the willingness of people in technology to cross the boundaries of class. I wonder if Moore's law in some part can be attributed to this quality. Consider sailing the high seas about 500 years ago; you've got a classy captain and some first mates all cramped onto a wooden vessel with a bunch of guys from Texas. That would be interesting. Maybe I'll write it when I get some VC funds next week :-)
Article excerpt:

Testing is under way of an F-18 with a covered aft cockpit to help prove that a camera-equipped aircraft with no forward view windows could be a viable option for a future supersonic business jet.

The external vision system tests involve Gulfstream Aerospace and are taking place at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., using the agency’s F-18 systems research aircraft (SRA). The aircraft’s aft cockpit canopy is shielded with only small cut-outs to represent side windows, while the forward view is taken up with a a 22-inch high-definition (HD) display. Gulfstream is exploring supersonic business jet configurations affording little or no forward view.

The liquid crystal display, bolted in place over the glareshield, is being used to display an image from an HD camera mounted behind the head-up display in the front cockpit. A safety pilot flies in the front cockpit, ready to assume control if the situation warrants, while the mission is flown from the aft cockpit by a pilot using only instruments and the visual display on the external vision system. ...

Five flights have taken place since mid-September, and the work is expected to culminate with three night flights around the end of October.
> I've been surprised by how little Open Source happens in the valley,

I'm not. I lived there during the last boom, and worked at an open source company, Linuxcare. Pretty much anyone who was anyone at that company in terms of actual open source contributions came from elsewhere (well, there were a few exceptions, but not many). Our strongest teams were in Australia, Canada and Italy.

I think the reason is fairly straightforward: the valley is expensive, and there are lots of startups going on. There is less of a "tinkering with something just for the pure pleasure/heck of it" spirit. Maybe that goes on too, but the next thought is "huh, this is pretty cool, I wonder how I can monetize it?". It's also easy to get hired doing reasonably interesting stuff, leading to less time on your own experimenting, and larger opportunity costs for those who don't pursue a job.
Plus I'm far too lazy to go around trying to trap them so as they cannot eat my brain while I experiment with stakes. I require a projectile for Zombie killing, otherwise I might as well just give up and join them.
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the greater transparency solution would be only avalaible to big companies, who would employ armies of consultants and accountants to be declared "transparent", since a small business needs a minimum of $20k to get their balance sheets audited/certified
You bring up some good points (although a couple actual paragraphs would have been easier to read ;), but I have to personally disagree on the replay value of good movies. I own many movies that I have watched countless times; I recently had to buy Fight Club again because we watch it a few times a week and the DVD was just worn out. There are numerous other amazing films that I can't get enough of as well. I have no idea how many times I've watched The Shawshank Redemption, as another example. I own movies like Transformers not because they're perfect filmmaking, but because I like to relive my younger years sometimes.

In general I agree that music has far greater replay value. I think that's partially because it's something that can be enjoyed basically any time, anywhere. I can't think of the last time I worked in silence for more than a few minutes at a time. That being said, I do my best to "pay tribute" to quality media by purchasing it. I'm sure I own quite a few movies I haven't seen in years, but I bought them because they struck me as worth paying for.

Finally, I think at this stage piracy (well, quality piracy at least) is still something that Joe Public isn't savvy enough to pick up. By the time the people who pay to consume all the horrible media out there (like, 90% of the total), I would hope a sane and intelligent response to the piracy issue will have found its way to "Big Entertainment."
As a paranoid schizophrenic, these are the happiest days of my adult life. Universal poetic harmony and all that.
This problem will remain for at least as long as you are in denial (and take points away to make the diagnosis fade away and disappear).
That saying was invented to warn people buying on margin. For people who are saving and have a steady income, this kind of solvency is really not an issue.
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Quite right. To put this into concrete terms, we still have all the food we can eat, adequate medical care, enough homes to house everyone, assorted consumer goods that make us happy, and the means to produce all of these as needed.

The crash of the financial markets has not reduced the production capacity of any of these goods or services. There will still be enough of them, only the dollar values attached will be different.

In contrast, during the great depression, lots of actual physical wealth was destroyed. Various other policies reduced production capacity, most notably the NRA and Smoot Hawley.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administratio...
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Bulbs won't work. The article is better than its heading, though. (LED do work.)
Are you referring to this line where he initializes 4 variables?

bounds, s, t, j = (0,0), -float('infinity'), 0, 0
> I don't see much difference in trying to run a country and run a company.

Really?
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Flagged as xenophobic flaming. Seriously, this kind of thing destroys forums.
As a foreigner, the problem I see with Silicon Valley is the US-centric business models. A typical web page engine and backend has English and US-dollar so hardwired the standard solution is to just open up a separate store on each country from ground up.

Typical issues are pricing, product listing and descriptions, data transfer interfaces, APIs, and sales tax calculation. Something that should take a day of work to do often ends in "we can't do it without affecting the main site negatively."

The irony is many of the Valley's entrepreneurs are foreign themselves.
I'd love to see bloated tech companies start dropping like flies. It'd leave such huge holes in the market that just beg for someone to come in and fill them with a lean startup.

I've seen a lot of this attitude lately, so I want to coin a term: startupfreude!
BSoD
> startupfreude

Kind of loses its punch in German since that would only mean "startup joy".
Indeed.

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According to this site (http://zfacts.com/p/318.html) our Debt is 70% of our GDP, not 320%. Not that it matters because the two aren't well suited to compare.

Debt is found on a balance sheet. GDP is found on a cash flow statement. A much more appropriate comparison would be debt to the value of the entire nation's assets. According to this site (http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/how_bad_is_the_national_debt_r/), the per capita debt is $162k but our per capita WEALTH is $300k.

We're going to be fine.
Invest in precious metals, Lead and Brass.
Invest in soft commodities. World population is still growing and people still need to eat.

Oh yes. Just in case it gets ugly. Attend some MMA classes and load up on ammo.
History is a poor predictor because there is no history. History is a tool.

For instance, what is the real reason for the current crisis? There is a lot of explanations: goverenment (cheap money, urging to lend to poor), capitalism (complex derivates, greed), poor models (Blackswan), empty money (gold bugs). The same goes with attemps to solve the current crisis. There are too many ideas to count.

How do you expect better explanations of the past, if you hardly understand the events going on right now? Of course, the idea is that history was explained better and we can learn from it; the truth is that you end up with explaining reality with previous bad explanations, and your bad explanations will be used later...
Since the financial system is indeed global, world wide is correct. Sure, it's only in the US, the UK and Spain that a housing bubble has burst (AFAIK, still, that's more world wide than the US alone), but financial institutions are in trouble in Germany, in Belgium and the Netherlands as well (again, AFAIK). In Iceland the collapse of the banking system is so severe the country as a whole (not just the banks!) is effectively bankrupt. And I just read on http://fistfulofeuros.net/ that Ukraine is pretty close to something similar.
Version control is indeed always a good idea. However, I'd strongly advise choosing Git over SVN.

SVN's branching capability is a joke compared to Git, and you'll wonder how you ever lived without easy branching once you get used to having it. This is important even if you're the only developer on the project.
The advantage of SVN is that it has been around longer, so you can (e.g.) find GUI software that leads you through it, like TortoiseSVN, or those two SVN clients for the Mac that conveniently came out just as I switched to git. :]

That's the only advantage, though. I frankly don't understand the notion that SVN is easier to learn than git. Git has its tricky points (like the index), and its documentation and teaching material have only recently emerged from obscurity, but I think it's conceptually more straightforward, particularly because you can use it without having to set up a server. And you can back up your entire repository by just dragging your working directory to some backup media, so crazy experiments feel a lot less risky.

Start at github. And I learned mainly from the git screencast at Peepcode and the Randal Schwartz Google talk on git.
Yes, I actually did purchase a meaningful (i.e as a fraction of my net worth) amount of gold, and have been buying for years. And for the rest of my net worth, I went all cash (dollar & yen) or short term treasuries some years ago - other than some small angel investments, which I will likely lose. And I have been renting the place I live. So this 40% stock market crash or the real estate bust hasn't meant anything to me personally. All I am saying is that there were many very smart people warning about these exact issues (examples: Paul Volcker, Warren Buffet, Nouriel Roubini, Steve Roach, Doug Noland ...) for many years. Alas, their pessimism, based on facts and logic, has proved entirely justified.
Really? I posted that exact idea 3 days ago... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=327464
Would the correct German (okay, German/English pidgin) be "Schadenstartup"?
There's a worldwide asset bubble everywhere, in all asset classes. China's stock exchange soared 400% over the last 2 years and is now down 70% in the past 8 months. Similar problems in Southeast Asia, Russia, etc.