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With 52% ownership of a web startup specifically belonging to a nontechnical cofounder (she would be the logical "leader" with the vision) is that who knows what will happen on a bad day. I've already shot down one suggestion of hers because it was irrelevant to the service we were going to offer. While a supermajority vote makes complete sense for important votes, 52/24/24 with the two 24% to the developers would be impossible on the less important votes if it was technical in nature and she just didn't get why they may be problematic/impossible.

I'd feel a lot more comfortable with a 52/24/24 split if only she knew more. But she's relying on us to provide everything design/development-related without being fully knowledgeable about it, and without us she's dead in the water.
Perfect? no. Awesome? yes.
For pretty obvious reasons?

import generating-domain-names as gds

print gds.genName()

2 lines of code to do Markov-chain-generating doaminnames!
Here is another cool one:
http://maettig.com/code/javascript/divo.html

Then a bunch more here:
http://maettig.com/code/javascript/
I am keen on the other question mentioned in the post. "Whereas Cpp seems to be the most popular language by Google code Jam statistics, How come Java turns out to be the supported one, based on popularity?"
Even if that's the case, is how long it takes to become comfortable with an OS really an issue. Say it takes a user a day to become comfortable with OSX, it would take them by your estimate 10 days to be comfortable with Linux. That's not such a long time...
The author, Larry Osterman, has his own blog that covers lots of super-nerdy Win32 programming topics: http://blogs.msdn.com/larryosterman/

My favorite Windows programmer blog is still Raymond Chen though... good mix of Windows history and programming topics: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/
Not sure this is such a great idea...
In the cloud you want to share resource to drive down costs - that means hosting multiple requests in one process. To maintain security/stability in such case the language must lend itself to sandboxing either by code verification or running in a VM. Hence Python and Java.
Like GWT?
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Those links clearly tell me you are in support of Tim Ferris, so I feel we are on the same page! As for your question, well I would not personally, but I do not see where it mentions that he supports a product he does not believe in? But overall, yes, lets just take the POSITIVE things that we can from this guy, and be done with it. I just wanted to state for the record, that "submitting response posts to articles" always seems to contain 1 of 2 things:

1. "hey look at me, I posted a witty comment".
2. "Fail, F-this guy, wak, fake, douche, etc"

Where does that get any of us? Sometimes being a part of these posts is just not worth my energy. (none of this is toward anyone specifically)

Absolutism is stupid.
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Wow, I first read this when I was in high school. It's still being updated?
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It's not a bad sign either though, because time spent online is almost inversely proportional to age. If you appeal to the younger half of the online population, you're still only losing maybe 1/4 of the audience.
A great response from Jason Fried to Duncan's twisted post on "Calacanis Fires People who Have a Life." here http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/07/calacanis-fires-people-...
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"... We could right now be in the middle of a shift on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. Or not; always hard to tell from so close. But there is certainly something interesting happening ..."

Internet of things? ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things which Bruce Stirling has been writing about (Shaping Things, 2005) ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime#Novels Ipso? (IP for Smart Objects) ~ http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Ipso+ip+smart+objects IP enabled things when IPV6 rolls out? These ideas are related to this article ~ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=333542
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Interesting - he makes a point about not giving too much away for free (literally at the very end of the talk).

He mentions that after putting their book up for free that they didn't sell many books any more (although, arguably the pay-off was exposure, conferences, etc...).
This is useful if you just want to be a small software company, but it's really specifically for that audience.

For example "Give up on hard problems" "work less" "look for easy pickings at the low end of big companies" etc.
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Watching the evolution of trackclass was interesting because it seemed to mirror Soshiku very closely.

http://www.soshiku.com/tour

http://trackclass.com/tour
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I agreed with most of it, except when he dismissing scaling as an issue. If you get scaling wrong you're in for a world of pain if success hits.

Think he was saying, don't bother with the dozens of servers, etc, etc - which I agree with - but I'd say ignoring it completely is dangerous.
Yeah, it's way off. The Patriots drafted the player most responsible for their success. In fact, they drafted many of their top players.
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heh the lens seems a bit fisheyed to me in the render. but still pretty cool

[oh i get it, it's like psuedo-3D, nice]
This article was a real wtf for me too.. :-/
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Regarding: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/03/facebook-co-founder-departs-to-build-extensible-enterprise-productivity-suite/
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are you saying you want to build something to compete with the two guys that left to build an enterprise version of facebook for corporate?

why would you do that? they haven't even built theirs yet :|

if you already had this idea in mind BEFORE they did this, sure i guess continue with your plans. if not do we really need a convoy of bandwagons all trying to tap this market?
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While I agree, I can't say for sure it isn't.
I was on the team that built http://bootleggers.r08.railsrumble.com

Think of it as election.twitter.com... except you make your own channels. And you can follow or fork other people's channels, and blah blah.

Oh and it's not just Twitter. :)
i absolutely love wikipedia. it's such an organic system that just WORKS so well, it's elegant. if i need something absolutely factual i will of course take it from vetted sources. but when i am just researching day-to-day curiousities, i'll gladly accept the word of "a friend who seems to know what he's talking about"

that's what wikipedia is to me
In Linux/BSD/Unix, it depends more on the window manager (dwm/wmii/ion3/ratpoison/etc nullify the need of 2nd monitor)

I guess the 2 monitor programmers are windows guys (nothing wrong with that) ... and then they migrate to osx/linux, bringing the bad habits and polluting osx/linux over time

your second monitor for MBP, is it used for extending the view for osx, or it's just a cloned view of the laptop screen (let's say via external monitor cable)?

if it's a cloned view, vnc is an old and reliable technique that works regardless of cpu/os used (you can control powerpc mac, intel mac, windows, linux, bsd machines ... in one box)

dual/multi-boot and parallel guys, try to beat that! :D
Also, the CRA was passed in 1977. There have been a few changes since then but I'm not sure you can lay the blame there.
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As the article states, only applicable if you have no equity in your house and you have no other assets. Hopefully no one here was silly enough to buy a house under those circumstances.
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I didn't really find anything helpful, but there is a story that's going around conservative blogs that it was the liberals' obsession with extending credit to minorities that ultimately caused the crisis.

There's a lot of things wrong with that story. This American Life just did a segment on it. They point out that the problem really originates elsewhere, on Wall Street, and that both conservatives and liberals share the blame here. Listen to the second segment of this episode:

http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1265

It's arguable that the mere existence of the Fed or FDIC does contribute to overconfidence, especially when it's pursuing a low interest rate policy.
Agreed, which is why I brought up the positive AND negative about him. You asserted something that was wrong so I supported my argument with proofs of prior posts.

Google the products he sells. The claims are ridiculous and filled with slime. They are glorified penis pills. Looking at only the positives blindly is stupid.
Rails was created to make web applications like Basecamp. I think Seaside was probably a better choice for web applications.

Now that client side frameworks like Cappucino and SproutCore exist, I don't really see the point in using Rails or Seaside.

I would recommend Merb as a replacement for dynamic, content-driven sites that people currently use PHP for.
Re coffee & sodas: Cuban should check out the relative health effects of the antioxidants in coffee and the high fructose corn syrup in sodas and retract that idiotic comment.
What isn't discrimination? I agree with you - hire the the most talented people that make your company and team better. Ignore all the bullshit.
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Except that retirees are the largest growing segment of internet users... and the boomers haven't really retired yet, and are more familiar with computers than those who barely used them at work.
Sure... Their strategy doesn't call for scaling though.

Campfire has handled 10 million messages since it started in 2006. That sort of traffic could be handled on a 386.

Their strategy is getting people to pay for simple stuff. That's a reasonably small market.
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The article was glib, hence the question.

Buying Areon chairs for $1500 a pop is not a "save money" move. That's not to say that it's not a smart move but if you want to judge it solely from an economic perspective, it's got fail all over it.
Thanks for the kind words on the UI. We spent a lot of time on that. I guess you could say we were inspired by Google Maps—they got the UI right first, then fixed the incomplete data, bad directions and brought it up to feature parity with Yahoo and MapQuest.
What do you think is happening now? The banks aren't willing to write off bad debt if they can stay afloat. As a result, they aren't willing to lend to each other. None of the banks wants to make a loan to another bank that will just go under due to their holdings of bad debt.

If the banks holding bad debt were allowed to fail, this would all be sorted out much faster.
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See the red dots... That's not good.
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Glad you posted this - I was going to skip it otherwise. One more reason to check the comments before reading the article.
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If you're running a startup that means you're lean on employees, and that means hiring the best. Employee retention for folks with many employment options requires perks beyond just stock options.

And honestly, every coder appreciates a good chair... we do spend 8+ hours in it every day...
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GWT doesn't really require anything on the server (it doesn't have to even be java/JVM), so its kinda already supported for folks that want to use it for the front end.
I can't believe this is still around. I used to reference this a decade ago and it was a true lifesaver.
Dude, that's like 2 years old: http://lifehacker.com/software/wifi/turn-your-wifi-piggyback...
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Yep. Thanks for the suggestion. After I logged in I realized that Apache was basically in an infinite loop where it kept trying to create new child processes but those where instantly being killed because of a lack of memory. After a hard reset it seems to be working now.
I'm not sure what you're trying to pitch.
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In 10 years computers will be able to use a combination of artificial intelligence and massed data from the Internet to generate music better than human musicians.

One can see how this conversation might drive one straight up a wall.

"Better" in what sense? In the sense that recorded music is more definitive and consistent than live performance? Or that synthesized tones are more accurately pitched and timed than the sounds from a Stradivarius? Or does he mean better in the sense that it is more satisfying to win a chess game against a 3200-rated computer than against the merely 2851-rated Garry Kasparov? Or better to watch a dolphin race another dolphin than to watch a slow, human swimmer like Michael Phelps race against other slow, human swimmers?

Humans prefer other humans. Though we like all kinds of things, for most people the sight and sound of other humans has a special, extra level of fascination. So I seriously doubt that AIs will ever successfully compete with human musicians, except as occasional fads, in selected genres and niches (they make pretty good ambient music), or in disguise. The problem is not that any specific musical feat is impossible for a machine (humans are themselves machines, after all). Rather, the problem is that humans control the metagame: Sooner or later, subtly or overtly, we will change the rules arbitrarily so that only humans can be fully human in our eyes.

Indeed, it's all we can do to prevent ourselves from redefining other humans (except those who are our own close relatives) as undesirable aliens -- if you doubt this, just talk to a member of a local minority group.

In such an environment I don't think AIs stand a chance in hell except as part of a cyborg team in which humans front for them. And, in music, we will call those humans "professional musicians"!
Apparently the heavy sarcasm in this article is not evident to everyone.
Agree on the accuracy issue, tried 3 different domains, all showed as available and none were.

I have used instantdomainsearch.com in the past with some success for tld's, roughly similar idea but has been around for a long time.
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How about: $20 coffee machine, (free) tap water, and a $10 ground coffee in a can from the grocery store?

It's not that complicated.
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He might as well have said "I propose we solve the problem of making Big Government work".

"Solve it how?"

"Details, schmetails. That's busywork for the little people, I'm an ideas man."
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There was a good article posted here a couple of days ago (can't find the link now) that argued that the difference is that the government can afford to buy the assets at above the market rate, because they can take a long-term view and hold them to maturity. The banks can't do that, though, they must value at market value and need to be able to trade them at a reasonable rate. The question then, of course, is how to estimate the hold-to-maturity value.

Buying them up at market rate, as you say, would just make all the businesses fail. The whole problem is that the market value is almost certainly not an accurate indicator of the intrinsic value of these investments at the moment.
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I don't trust wikipedia on issues in the soft sciences. it's a nice reference for the hard sciences.
May be the case - but in my experience, issues of scale don't creep up on you - one day hit a hard limit and your service is crashing all the time.

.. And if you haven't thought about it - this can happen at any volume. I've seen apps that test great with 5 users and then bomb when you get 3 more.

Just my experience. Not saying as an overall strategy it's not a good idea - as a business this might very well be an effective model - just saying that ignoring it technically is a bad one.
Echo wayne. Also, best way to battle wifi leeches is to properly secure your network. I would find it /way/ funny if someone misconfigured this, left part of their home network open, and ended up getting hacked.
Stop paying my mortgage? Uh...you first.

And only $15k/year? This guy doesn't have my mortgage! Try $27600/year!
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You'd have to assume that it would have to be... otherwise it would be a god-awful mess...
Old, but still funny.

Now if you add in the unicode upsidedown characters http://www.fileformat.info/convert/text/upside-down.htm you're really talking :)
You have to make sure that you're not defaulting on anything in your capacity as a startup, i.e. office space.
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worth watching...

This is vid 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9dmcRbuTMY and this is vid 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn3Ex-5dPAo&feature=relat...

What is interesting is that even though his approach in these videos is correct, Jobs would have lost if Apple didn't have the large pool of cash to do something with Next's technology when Jobs came back to Apple.

Just goes to show that you can be smart and know exactly how to achieve a goal, but luck and timing are just as important.
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If you're hiring amateur developers at your startup, then you're doing something wrong. If you're forcing experienced developers to use a particular OS because you read in some dumb blog post that it was a good idea, you're doing something wrong.

Really, I think on a small team, the best OS choice is the one that people know. There are very few cases where I can see OS dogmatism as being worth spending brain cycles on in an early-phase startup. If you're still small enough to all be eating at the same lunch table, you're also small enough that you don't need an IT policy.
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I have a great idea that would prevent all future property bubbles (it won't retroactively fix this one), would cost the taxpayers nothing, and wouldn't disrupt normal property market in any way.

The idea is: when you take mortgage for N dollars, and repay X% (measured as 1 - outstanding debt/value of mortgage) of it, then you can at every time force foreclosure, and get X% of whatever bank gets, minus some pre-agreed fee.

In normal market nobody would need to do that, as they can sell the house and get the same money without the fee.

If prices fall by Y%, then nobody is stuck - they can just force foreclosure, and lose Y% of what they paid (plus a fee) - perfectly reasonable deal. Bank is of course in big trouble, as they lose Y(1-X)-fee of the house value. However this doesn't cause any negative cash flows - bank gets money from forced foreclosure, simply less than it expected.

This forces banks to behave. If they see market is normal they can just operate normally, as nobody would use this option. If property market is inflated, they cannot keep lending as they take most of the risk of bubble collapsing. So banks limit lending, and bubble never develops, a good negative feedback system. The problem is that right now raising property prices make more people want to buy houses, and make lending more profitable, what raises prices even more - a positive feedback system, that is a very bad thing.

Fee needs to be high enough to prevent abuse in non-bubble times, like people changing their minds and few-percent fluctuations in property prices. It also needs to be low enough to offer real protection in case of a genuine bubble.

There's a slight moral hazard here, as people would be more willing to buy if they expected this protection, however it really only limits their loses in case of a major market crash, and if they were expecting a major crash they would stay away from the real estate market anyway, so realistically I wouldn't expect a major behavioral shift. Reduced volatility both ways will most likely have more significant and positive effect on people.

This would have to be legislated obviously. It won't prevent the bubble if banks are too concentrated or too short-sighted or expect a bailout. Even if they get a bailout at least no homeowners will have a negative equity problem, and market will stay liquid even in case of major property price crashes.

Actually I have a second idea - how about retroactively turning existing mortgages into something like that? The banks are all getting nationalized anyway, so we can just legislate that, and it would really unclog the market.

This is in no way related to commercial property, or to complex derivatives that got us into the credit crunch (real estate bubble was just one of many factors, not even the most important factor).

Are there any major problems with this plan?
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